consulting

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 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:57:56 -0700
 >
 > It's very hard to read your e-mail format. Could you be less tech with us?

Sorry.

 > I
 > think you are asking how I found my first potential client.

Yes, that's what I asked.

 > She is the CEO
 > of a small company that I interviewed with for a job last Summer. I didn't
 > want the job as an employee because I would have to work in one large room
 > with lots of other employees including another small companies' employees
 > with a radio going on, and I told her that I was used to working in my own
 > office and felt  I couldn't produce good quality work under those
 > cirumstances at her Company. However, I liked everything else about the
 > Company so we kept in touch. About 2-3 months ago she contacted me and said
 > she had hired  another bookkeeper, but felt that he was only able to do the
 > daily accounting transactions, but she still had no one to produce the
 > higher level accounting reports she needed such as projections and would I
 > be interested in producing those for her on a contract labor basis. So we
 > have been working on bringing that idea to fruition. One of my first steps
 > was to get permission from my employer after tax season to cut my hours down
 > to 30/week so that I'd have the time to work for this other woman as well.
 > Her first step was to get an experienced Board member to join her Corporate
 > Board who had more financial and business knowledge than she did to give her
 > advice such as specifically what kind of accounting reports she really
 > needed.

OK.  So, the interview got you the contact.  Now, if I could only get an
interview.

 > In the meantime I have started to write up a Business Plan for
 > myself.

Is this so you can incorporate?  What exactly is the purpose of this?

 > I should be meeting with her and this new Board member soon to start
 > talking about the particulars. This Company invented, makes, and sells
 > herbal coffees that have no caffeine, part of the natural food industry, I
 > believe. What I liked about this female CEO is that she really wanted the
 > kind of reports that I'd enjoy producing, unlike my present employer who
 > doesn't believe in any planning. However I had a job interview with another
 > Company last week about which we're still negotiating, so we'll see what
 > happens.

I think accountants are in higher demand than technical people right now.
The finance person at my last company went to another company.  The very
fact that she could do that indicates to me that things are different for
CPAs.

 >     Hope you had a very pleasant Easter, Passover, Spring. Don left today to
 > go skiing at Mammoth, and besides being a greeter at Church this AM for
 > Easter service,  I went to a very nice potluck dinner at Art and Cynthia's
 > with the whole "group" there.

That's good.  Noelle, I, and some other people went to a comedy show.  I
didn't find it that funny, but everyone else enjoyed it.

 > Gail