“I gave a speech in Moscow, Russia, on how to increase foreign investment in the Siberian region,” said Susan Veach of Accountability Plus, Inc., in Port Orchard.

Her accounting expertise opened the doors to contracts in Honduras, the Philippines, Guatemala and Mexico. In the Pacific Northwest, she teaches QuickBooks. She is an authority on forestland tax management.

Veach’s credentials include a bachelor’s in accounting and 20 years’ experience in the accounting industry. She worked for a general contractor as a controller in Auburn, Wash.

In 1998, she opened her accounting business in Port Orchard. She contracts with 40 clients in the area. Among her clients are industries, chiropractors, a home furnishing store, churches, scientific companies, a publishing company, and painting subcontractors.

“I knew that individual subcontractors could not afford fulltime accounting personnel,” she said. “I knew that they, individually, could not afford me. However, if they shared me, as a group, they would benefit from big-business expertise at a small-business price.”

Veach contracts with a group of subcontractors. Her work includes complicated compliances with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

She gives credit to her family for the amount of work that she accomplishes.

“I have the tendency to work too much,” she said. “Since my office is at home, it is hard to know when I have come home from work. My children, 16 and 14, and my husband let me know when I am working too much.

“Due to concerns about my husband’s health, my husband and I decided that he would take care of the home,” she said. “He has done a fabulous job. As a minister, he is a real guidance for the family. He is the head of the family.”

“He reads something to me every morning that is uplifting, helping me to face the day,” she said. “He has written our family’s goals. He reads them every morning. Reading the goals reminds us of who we are and our strengths through Scripture.”.