About Perrywinkle Accounting
Running a business is hard enough without feeling confused, judged, or overwhelmed by your finances. Our role is to provide structure, insight, and dependable follow-through — without unnecessary noise.
Perrywinkle Accounting provides full-service bookkeeping and cash flow guidance for small business owners who want clarity and confidence in their numbers. Based in Western North Carolina, we work with the hospitality industry, real estate investors (vacation rentals), and service-based businesses throughout the region and in tourist destinations across the United States. Many of our clients operate in seasonal, visitor-driven markets where cash flow timing, expense control, and reliable bookkeeping matter just as much as profitability.
This firm is designed for business owners who value clarity, thoughtful communication, and who don’t want their accounting relationship to feel rushed, performative, or overwhelming.
A Different Kind of Accounting Firm
Many accounting firms are built around urgency, volume, and reactive work.
Perrywinkle Accounting is intentionally different.
Our approach is structured, efficient, and proactive. We focus on building clean financial systems, maintaining accurate monthly bookkeeping, and helping business owners understand how everything fits together — not just what the numbers are, but what they mean.
We believe:
No one is “bad with money”; financial management is a skill, not a personality trait
Good bookkeeping is foundational, not optional
Understanding your numbers changes how you operate your business
Seeing your finances, clearly, changes how you make decisions
That’s why education and visual explanations are part of everything we do.
How we Support the Hospitality & Tourism Industry
Tourism-based businesses face unique financial challenges:
Seasonal revenue swings
High variable costs
Multiple income streams
Tight margins during shoulder seasons
Perrywinkle Accounting keeps these realities in mind throughout the year.
Rather than focusing only on compliance or year-end reporting, we prioritize clean books, consistent processes, and financial information that supports ongoing decision-making. Our work is methodical, forward-looking, and grounded in how money actually moves through your business.
I’m Tegan, a NC licensed CPA with over a decade of experience in public accounting.
Throughout my career, I have worked with business owners who cared deeply about their businesses and customers, but were making big decisions using incomplete or poorly explained financial information. Too often, bookkeeping was treated as an afterthought instead of the operational tool it should be.
Perrywinkle Accounting was built to change that.
I work best in focused, one-on-one environments where accuracy, education, and consistency matter. My goal is to help business owners understand their numbers well enough to trust them — and to use that information with confidence.
Meet Tegan Shaver, CPA
Who This Firm Is For
Perrywinkle Accounting is a good fit for business owners who:
Operate in hospitality, real estate, or service-based industries
Are located in Western North Carolina or tourist-driven markets elsewhere in the U.S.
Want dependable bookkeeping and structured financial systems
Prefer clear explanations over constant conversations
Value professionalism, discretion, and follow-through
Want to understand their finances, not avoid them
We work with a limited number of clients so we can do this work well.
Clear Numbers. Strong Systems. Thoughtful Support.
You don’t need more noise around your finances.
You need records you can trust and explanations that make sense.
That’s what we provide.
I am often asked where I came up with the name for my business. Ultimately, it is the biggest “thank you” to my Dad for providing me with a wonderful education and work ethic. In Bermuda (where he is from) it is tradition for friends to pick out a nickname. Growing up, his last name was “Perry” and you can’t go to the beach without seeing hundreds of periwinkle’s attached to the rocks - and thus, his friends chose his nickname!
I am also fascinated by the Fibonacci sequence, which is a pattern found in nature, seen in the spirals of seashells to the arrangement of leaves. Each number in the sequence builds on the one before it, creating a harmonious progression. For me, this natural rhythm is more than just a beautiful pattern—it’s a reminder of how steady growth and balanced steps lead to lasting success.