About me

I have been a practicing accountant for ten years and licensed Certified Public Accountant for nine years.  I began my career in public accounting, and for those three years, I served all types of clients from manufacturing clients with multi-million dollar revenues to small non-profits.  I then spent five years working for a large public technology company, where I identified areas of improvement and designed policies and procedures.  For the past three years, I have served as the finance director for a non-profit religious organization, where I do everything from posting every deposit and writing every check, to participating in strategic planning sessions, to preparing and presenting regular financial presentations to the governing board.

My passion is teaching and helping others understand not only the “nuts and bolts” of accounting, but also its incredible usefulness in making sound business decisions.  Finances are not something that “have to be done for the IRS”; the reports I can provide are invaluable tools to tweak your business and increase your revenues.

Holli Powell, CPA, owner of Thrive Consulting