About Me

Hi! My name is Shelly Petro, and I am a bookkeeper in Becker, MN. I help businesses manage their books through a cloud-based program, called QuickBooks.

After getting my bachelor’s degree in Geology, with a minor in Chemistry, I realized it wasn’t the science that drove me, it was the analytics. You know those puzzles where you’re given 5 cars of different colors, 5 houses, and 5 different people’s names, and by following clues you have to figure out who has which house and which car…. well, I LOVE those types of games! No seriously, I could sit and do those games all day! I get a similar satisfaction when I’m able to classify business transactions and watch the accounting equation balance itself out.

I continued my education to earn my master’s in business and found myself in a great career working various analytic roles in Corporate America. A rewarding chapter in my life that I am very thankful for. But after 14 years, it was time for a change. With a desire to remain working from home, allowing a good balance to my life, and the ability to homeschool my son, I decided bookkeeping was a perfect fit for me.