Today we’d like to introduce you to Amelia Harshfield.
Hi Amelia, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I did not want to be a bookkeeper. A restaurant I was working for at the time needed some help with the behind the scenes work that goes into a restaurant. The owner asked if I would handle their bookkeeping. I told her I would do this for 3 months and then find someone else to do it. After some time I realized that I liked the process of bookkeeping. I liked the monthly flow that it has. I like the grounded nature of bookkeeping.
I started thinking about how bookkeepers that I’d hired with other businesses had really let me down. I knew other business owners who had the same poor experiences with bookkeepers and accountant. I also thought that I could help create a realiable, trustworthy, and honest bookkeeping business for owners who just want their books done every month without any drama. There is so much stress that comes with bad bookkeeping and accounting. I thought I would love to prevent other business owners from the pain I’d experienced. So I took the steps to opening my bookkeeping business.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Every clients brings something to learn. So I get to keep learning what to do. QuickBooks is always changing, so that is a process of how to handle the platform. There is a lot to learn with bookkeeping, so there is some learning with most that I sign up for.
We’ve been impressed with Elevated Ledger , but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
We are a bookkeeping business that helps businesses that sells services. I’m proud of how we are responsive, have high morals, and send reports every month with some thoughts about the business performace over the past month. We try to be a team in ways that other bookkeepers just are not doing.
Can you talk to us about how you think about risk?
I am more comfortable with growth and change than I am staying the same. I’ve found change really scares a lot of people. But with the growth and change comes risk taking. I’ve lost money while investing in real estate. I’ve set boundaries with clients that made them not come back to me. I’ve shut down businesses that I invested a lot of money in. In the end I have to honor what is right for me. If the risk taking involves becoming a better person, having higher morals, and being more true to who I am, then I believe it’s worth the risk. And when things go “wrong” with my risk taking, then I try to learn from it so I don’t put myself in the same situation. With that mindset, the risk is far less scary.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.elevatedledger.net
