About Us

This is my first entry into what I hope will be a long relationship with my own blog’o’sphere. Many thanks to David at Greater Falls.com for the inspiration and help!

A little bit about me: My Name is ReAnn Rothwell. I am a born and raised Great Falls girl. My family has been here since my grandpa, Jack Rothwell, moved here in the 1930’s to work with Mr. Eklund (grandpa of Cal and Guy over at Eklund’s Appliance and Furniture) in the tire business.I got my Accounting degree from MSU (go Cats) in 1980, attained my CPA certificate in 1982 and continued working for the family business until I decided I needed to strike out on my own. In 1990, I opened my own Allstate Insurance office. In 1997, I opened my own Independent Insurance office, Rothwell Insurance Center, merging with Western States Insurance in 2003.

After a bad 4-wheeler accident in 2006, I retired from the 12-hour/6-days-a-week days of insurance. I started dusting off my CPA certificate, took a couple of tax refresher courses, and jumped into “Rothwell and Company” doing taxes and payroll work since October of 2006.

One of the greatest needs that I keep seeing was office and paper organization. “Accounting or bookkeeping by box’ where a client would bring me their annual paperwork in cardboard boxes seemed to be the norm. There may be some file folders with receipts loosely categorized in the boxes however, the receipts still needed to be gone through one by one.