Meet the Platinum Bookkeeper,
Bree Strickler
Bree Strickler is a QuickBooks Pro Advisor and has over 10 years of non-profit bookkeeping and accounting experience. She has two sons, Stephen and Shane, and currently resides in eastern Colorado with her pastor husband, Jamie and standard poodle, Boomer.
In Bree’s own words:
“Zig Ziglar said you could get everything you want in life by helping others get what they want. My passion is working with non-profit and ministry leaders to help them get what they want -- a successful organization that meets their vision, serves their communities and truly impacts the world in a profound way. Working with non-profits and churches over the years has helped me understand that it takes a special kind of courage and integrity to be a leader. While many are good at casting vision, they get frustrated when it comes to their finances. Non-profit accounting requires a specialized knowledge and skill expertise that many non-profit leaders simply do not have. My calling is to offer an affordable solution that takes the time and headache out of non-profit and ministry bookkeeping while offering board members and ministry leaders the insight needed to grow their organizations and meet their mission goals. They cast the vision. I make the money make sense.”
Bree is passionate about non-profit bookkeeping, but it was far from her first love. In fact, all she wanted to be was a wife, a mother and a funeral director! After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Vincennes University with her degree in Funeral Service Education, Bree devoted her time to raising her family. She didn’t want to pursue her career until after her children graduated high school. Instead, she took a part-time job working for a small church which allowed her to work around her boys’ schedules. Soon, Bree found herself doing the books and before long she discovered a love of numbers. She took other bookkeeping and accounting jobs and soon found herself in a management position in a small but rapidly growing accounting firm.
Bree began pursuing more education and soon realized that her on-the-job experience was preparing her for more. Now, after 10 years of experience in the bookkeeping profession and eight years in management, Bree has learned what non-profit and ministry clients need most — peace of mind, confidence and consistency in their bookkeeping.
She quickly learned that the more hands in the cookie jar, the crumblier the cookies get. That’s “Bree” for “the more people you have working in or manipulating a set of books, the more likely there are to be mistakes and inconsistencies in reporting.” She quickly grew tired of seeing client accounts go through the hands of a junior bookkeeper, a senior bookkeeper, an accountant, an overseer, and then a CPA and she knew there had to be a better way. — So she developed a solution!
Bree has a very simple approach for her Better Bookkeeping model. She records the transactions, manages functional expenses, reconciles the accounts, and reports the findings, just like other bookkeepers, but here’s the difference— books are never passed on to junior-level workers (Bree handles them all herself), clients are always given a flat-fee, per-month rate, and she always contacts clients the same day of the week, every week.
Bree doesn’t claim to know everything—she’ll be the first to admit if she needs to research a topic a bit further or confer with another accounting professional before tackling a question, but her clients are always her first priority and she knows that the Platinum Bookkeeper is sure to be an asset for your non-profit organization, church, or ministry. Discover better non-profit bookkeeping solutions with your Platinum Bookkeeper.