Where’s your pain?

Guidance through your accounting headaches.

Hello, Small-Business Owner,

Each person who starts a business has a unique story to tell. Often, a new entrepreneur can point to a person or circumstance that influenced his or her decision to follow a specific path in life. I am no different, and this is my story.

My mother and I sat across from a CPA at her home office. My father had recently lost his job, and my parents were trying to determine if they should pursue self-employment. There were so many unknowns facing them. How do you start a business? What are the requirements self-employed people must follow? Where do you get the information you need? That CPA gave my parents clear direction on the next step to take.

I believe God works Providentially through circumstances and people. I believe (and clearly experienced) that good things ultimately transpired from my father’s job loss. I remember leaving the CPA’s office and thinking, “I want to do what she was able to do; I want to help people with their businesses.”

It was during this same time that I was deciding what to study in college. Amazing timing, wasn’t it? Prior to meeting with the CPA, I had no clue what I should do. I had not even thought about accounting because I did not particularly like it in high school.  

Fast forward six months. I was sitting in my very first undergraduate accounting class. The professor said, “You’ll either like accounting, or you’ll not like accounting. There’s generally no middle ground.” Well, I liked it!

I graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting from Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, Wisconsin and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After graduate school I became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Currently, I am a solo-CPA business owner, seeking to help the small business owner.

This is part of my story. I look forward to learning your story!

Tara

P.S. A life story doesn’t just end. It continues. You’re probably curious why my business page for Accourage CPA LLC is part of this website. Who would have thought farming would be part of my life! Read more here.