However, it appeared as though her father was more skilled at creating hard candy than he was working on the company’s money. Instead of sitting at a computer and processing bills, he would much prefer to be in the kitchen whipping up some sweet delicacies. Her father had been paying the bills, and she was in for a rude awakening when she saw the mess that he had created when she managed to get her hands on the paperwork. Her cousin ran their website and online orders and oversaw payroll.

They had invested in new machinery over the course of the previous five years to modernize certain aspects of their operations. The smaller machines were paid for using a line of credit, while the larger ones were financed from an outside source. Some of the vendors were paid through wire transfers, while others were paid with credit cards issued to the company. It amounted to a huge mess.