Cynthia's Consulting

Back in 2006, Cynthia Windrow was working for a woman who ran her own accounting firm. Cynthia loved everything about that work, and her boss did something most bosses never do: she set up Cynthia's business for her so Cynthia could go and do it too. Cynthia has been doing it here ever since, and that early kindness shows in how she treats the owners who come to her now. Cynthia's Consulting is veteran owned and woman owned, and it works out of an office on South Rutherford Boulevard in Murfreesboro.

Most of the people who find her are good at the thing they opened their doors to do, and then a letter from the state arrives full of words they have never seen. One woman called after missing a single annual report. The notice had gone to an address she no longer checked, and the state had closed her business. Cynthia helped her put it back together. More often the trouble is quieter, an owner who cannot say where last month's money went. Bookkeeping is the part Cynthia loves most, because once the books are straight she can tell someone they are spending too much in one place and starving another. She says it is how she gets to watch small business owners breathe.

She will carry the whole money and paperwork side of a business, from the day it opens to the day it closes, including serving as registered agent so the state writes to her instead of you. Three years of unfiled returns does not shock her, and nobody gets a lecture. Her first question is whether you want her looking over what you already do or taking it off your desk, and she is honest that most people end up handing it over. Everything gets done, as she puts it, decently and in order.