■ How did you learn about x-garden?

 

I had been thinking about starting my own company and taking charge of my life for a while when I stumbled upon x-garden at a real estate place. I intuitively thought this would broaden my options, and be a positive experience.

 

■ Tell us about your career:

 

For about nine years, I’d been working in accounting, finance, and general affairs. Since high school, I’d aspired to be an entrepreneur; I’d read books by Keita Goto, founder of Tokyu Group, and Yasujiro Tsutsumi of Seibu group. I was interested literature, but knew that IT skills – which I had limited knowledge of – would be more useful. In order to get acquainted with talented people in the IT industry, I pursued a science degree.

 

 

After graduating from university, I joined a small retail company to learn about the industry. Two weeks after my I completed the training period, the head of the department suddenly retired and I was given that role. Since I was knew and didn’t know left from right, I was constantly getting reprimanded, but as a result I learned about planning consultative sales, managing part-timers, and promoting their seasonal products. It was all very interesting and fulfilling work. Because I was now the head of the retail department, I became responsible for analyzing “sales”, “gross margins”, “missing number of articles,” and “stock rotation speed”, and presenting action plans, goals, and achievements at monthly meetings with headquarters. But back then, I didn’t know what the numbers meant, and fumbled through a cycle of planning and implementation. Over time, I became more interested in the numbers I was crunching, and began studying small business administration.

Then, I changed jobs, switching to an accounting position for a trading company for the food and beverage industry. While there, I checked payments of invoices and managed accounts receivable. I dealt with very exact figures, and quickly improved upon my skills with numbers. I changed jobs again to gain financial and even non-accounting work experience at a manufacturing company. My responsibilities went beyond the usual business affairs; I created monthly cash receipt statements and managed our accounts receivable. I also planned answers to anticipated questions that would come up at shareholders’ meetings. I became aware, through a wide range of responsibilities, that I was pretty good at administrative tasks, and finance and accounting.

 

◆ Description of your company

 

The name 腹心 (fukushin; confidante) comes from my goal of creating trust between a company and its president.

We mainly deal with:

– Organizational operation (division of roles, for example) consultation

–  Strategic dialogue

–  Accounting

–  Management of deposit accounts

–  Creation and advising of materials necessary for discussions with consultant experts

–  Banking and financial institutions

…but because we are “confidantes”, we are open to other queries.

 

■ What’s next?

 

I’d like to take tedious busywork off the hands of non-profits so they can maximize participation.

 

■ What you’re striving for now:

 

Fukushin is all about the people:

People who will perform accounting work with us

People who have put on events

People with good entrepreneurial mindsets and techniques

 

If this sounds like you, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

 

 

■ Self-promotion:

 

 

Entrepreneurs who are in doubt because they lack certain areas of expertise (such as accounting) or time to attend to busywork, please look us up!

 

(Japanese) http://fukusin.jp/