MELODY McCLAIN loves solving people’s problems — so much so, she decided to start a business doing just that.
As owner of MJ McClain Professional Corp, McClain works tirelessly to provide local businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals with high-quality accounting and tax-planning services.
“A favourite part of the job is the opportunity to take something that people dread — numbers and taxes — and turn it into something not so scary, and sometimes even a bit fun,” says McClain.
“Most of them come to us with questions and often some confusion on how best to manage the financial side of their business. It fulfils the teaching side of me to work with them in furthering their understanding of the numbers and tax.”
McClain gives back to the Airdrie SMARTstart program as a workshop presenter to budding local entrepreneurs. She is also a volunteer mentor for the City of Airdrie’s AdvanceSMART program and is currently training to become a facilitator for a new financial management and budgeting program to help Airdrie business owners called Cashflow Canvas.
“There’s an Albert Einstein quote that I love: ‘Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.’ That’s my goal for the coming years — to add as much value as I can to my clients, my team, my family and my community,” McClain says.