Synopsis

Fridays were always busy days for Clara Wellington. She had to tie up loose ends at work, or at least organize loose ends so, Monday morning, they wouldn’t strangle her. Loose ends could only strangle Clara because she was the entire company.  Well, more accurately, she and, Richie, her intern from the local community college who helped out two or three days a week. Clara started her accounting firm just over a year ago after a few years at Deloitte. Working for a Big Five accounting firm had mixed blessings. She learned professional practices in the industry, but their idiotic culture of working their young employees 100 hours a week drove good, young talent to other firms, including Clara.  Hell-Week that lasted for three years was not working for her. She knew it was time to go off on her own. She saved enough money to pay the bills as she got her business off the ground and she even had a few clients who followed her from Deloitte. Her business plan was to learn how to run a business with just a few clients, and then grow by adding clients and associates. She was simply too good for that.