Built from decades inside financial systems.
AbacusVRA grew from decades of working inside financial systems and seeing where conventional accounting structures fail to give vacation rental management owners a clear picture of their companies.
The value isn’t simply producing financial statements. It’s building a financial structure that lets leadership see what the numbers actually mean.
Shellee Spafford, Founder & CEO
Shellee founded Abacus in 1998, after beginning her career at Merrill Lynch National Financial. With an accounting education and more than two decades of vacation rental accounting experience, she has seen repeatedly how standard accounting structures blur the line between the management company’s economics and the money flowing through it. AbacusVRA is the specialized practice built to fix that.
Credentials
- Founded 1998
- Merrill Lynch National Financial
- Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Graduate, 2019
- Interise Mini-MBA Graduate, 2019
- Titan Award, Small Business of the Year, 2022
A clear financial foundation now, and a practical structure that can support the company as it grows, raises capital, or prepares for a future transaction.