with Coreen Wright
Coreen Wright holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration with a focus in Finance. Prior to establishing CSRW Tax and Financial Services now doing business as Faith Accounting and Consulting Services. Coreen was employed as an Accountant with various companies such as Uniondale Free School District, Teachers College Press-Columbia University, and Continental Home Loans Mortgage Bank. In addition, Coreen has over 10 years’ experience in professional services managing accounting responsibilities.
Coreen has been in the accounting arena for 11 years. After graduating college and several years into her career, Coreen decided to start her own Accounting Firm in Hempstead and East Northport, NY where Faith Accounting & Consulting Services was founded. Coreen has worked extensively with small to medium sized businesses, nonprofit organization and faith base organization. She enjoys working with clients, putting an emphasis on creating sound bookkeeping systems, preparation of financial statements, income tax planning & preparation, and business consultations.
Coreen’s greatest professional achievement is the rapport she’s established and maintained with her business clients. They depend on her and she thrives on exceeding their expectations. Coreen provides businesses and individuals with accounting, tax, and advisory services. Her expertise includes, but is not limited to, providing personal financial and accounting services, coordinating the work efforts of other professionals, such as trust and estate attorneys, bankers, investment advisors, Certified Public Accountants, and insurance agents, managing and accounting for cash flow, compiling financial data for income, and performing financial analysis. These services are intended to help clients maintain their desired lifestyle and financial independence.
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Michael Palmer: Not every client was for me, and I'm not for every client. Not every business I'm for either. So we have certain questions that we would ask them, and if they didn't fit, they wouldn't get to the next process, which is a discovery call. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's Today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is the president and owner of Faith Accounting and Consulting Services, and she is a Pure Bookkeeping licensee, Corrine Wright. Welcome to the show. Hi, Michael. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. It's great to have you. I'm loving, loving the fact that you were able to get on with us, and I know a big part of this is just Hearing about your success in business, I just knew I had to have you on the podcast, tell your story. So before we get into all of that, Kareem, tell us about your career journey leading up to this point.
Coreen Wright (Sept 20): Oh, I don't know where to start. I guess I'm going to start from high school. I always knew I wanted to be an accountant in high school. Once I decided to move from being an attorney and going into the number field and accounting because I realized I wasn't that creative. As a storyteller. So me being an attorney wouldn't have worked. Um, and I also appreciated the fact that numbers do not lie. So that's why I was like, accounting is more my cup of tea. So ever since high school, I've been taking accounting courses at my, at my high school and also at my local college, Hofstra University. And then from there, I attended Howard University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 2009. During that, also that time, my son was due a month after my graduation. Oh, wow.
Um, and I started my accounting career working in an accounting firm doing audits. And I quickly realized that auditing wasn't for me either because I fell asleep during an audit. So that was, that was not a good sign right there. So from there, I went in and started working at Columbia University at their Teachers College Fresh Department. I loved doing that. I
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