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Big-firm experience.
Kitchen-table service.

Fractional CFO, deal due diligence, and accounting support from a CPA who has run the numbers everywhere from mom & pop shops to the S&P 500. Based in Portland, working nationwide.

Call or text Brandon See how I can help

Your numbers, read
all the way through.

Most firms test a sample and hope the rest behaves. I read the whole book, so the picture you act on is the real one, not a guess.

What I can read for you →
Cash flow Trailing 12 months
$1.24M +18.2% vs prior year
Verified
100% of transactions
Flagged
6 one-time items
Runway
14 months

Illustrative view. Your numbers, read the same way.

When my phone rings

Five calls come in more than any others. If one of them sounds like your week, that is where to start.

You're buying a business and the seller's numbers feel a little too good. Quality of Earnings → You're selling the business you built, and the buyer's accountant is about to go through it line by line. Quality of Earnings → The bank wants projections. You have a shoebox of receipts. Fractional CFO → You need a CFO in the room, but not on the payroll. Fractional CFO → Your books are six months behind and tax season is closing in. Accounting Support →

Four ways I can help

Quality of Earnings & Due Diligence

Both sides of the deal. They're different jobs, and I've done both.

If you're buying

Know what you're really buying before you sign. I dig into the seller's earnings, cash flow and working capital, and put it in a report your bank and your lawyer can use. Priced for Main Street deals, not private equity.

If you're selling

The buyer's accountant is going to take your numbers apart. Better that I do it first. I clean up the earnings story, build the data room, and have the answers ready before the questions arrive. The surprises turn up in my office instead of in the middle of your negotiation.

Either side of a deal? Start with a call →

Fractional CFO

Board-level strategy at a part-time price. Financing, forecasting, investor and lender conversations: the work a growing company needs from a CFO, without the full-time salary.

Growing fast? Book a CFO call →

Accounting Support

Clean books, closed months, reports you can actually read. Controller-level support plus data work in Excel, at whatever cadence your business needs.

Books a mess? Let's clean them up →

Reporting & Dashboards

Power BI dashboards that pull straight from your ERP and accounting system, so you see margin, cash and operational performance without waiting on month-end. Every model reconciles back to the general ledger, so the numbers on the dashboard are the numbers in your financials. Reporting your team actually trusts.

Flying blind? Let's build the dashboard →

Selected work

Most of my clients are under NDA, so no names. The work instead: manufacturers, retail roll-ups, distributors, software companies. A lot of it was for private equity buyers, and that's deliberate. It's the standard I bring to a Main Street deal, at a Main Street price.

  1. Fractional CFO

    Growth manufacturer, losses to profitability

    A Mountain West manufacturer losing money at $3M in revenue. I built the costing and inventory foundation, secured financing to extend runway, and put FP&A oversight in place through the growth phase. The company scaled to $12M in revenue at sustained profitability.

  2. Fractional CFO

    PE-backed retail roll-up

    A hardware retail chain executing a multi-store acquisition strategy. I ran Quality of Earnings analysis on the acquisition targets, built consolidated multi-entity P&L reporting, and managed cash across locations while supporting budgeting and integration accounting.

  3. Fractional CFO

    SaaS transaction readiness

    Embedded with a private equity backed software company preparing for a sale process. I led the financial data room preparation, rebuilt monthly reporting, and partnered with the internal finance team through diligence.

  4. Quality of Earnings & Due Diligence

    Multi-store acquisition diligence

    Quality of Earnings analysis on retail acquisition targets for a PE-backed buyer, delivering adjustment schedules and normalized EBITDA analysis that informed both the purchase decisions and the integration plan.

  5. Reporting & Dashboards

    $100M distributor, reporting transformation

    Power BI reporting and dashboard analytics for a $100M Pacific Northwest distributor, replacing legacy reporting with real analysis of profitability and inventory. The self-serve layer gave leadership visibility into margin and inventory performance for the first time.

Most firms test a sample.
I test every dollar.

Traditional diligence checks a handful of big transactions and hopes the rest behaves. With AI-assisted analysis I trace every transaction all the way through: big-firm depth, no big-firm team, no big-firm invoice.

Twenty-plus years in finance, across three company sizes from family shops to the S&P 500. The last five years: zero advertising, one hundred percent referrals.

The CPA behind MMI

I'm Brandon Cantrell, CPA. Alabama roots, Portland, Oregon since 2015. I've been staff accountant, controller, and CFO at companies from local family businesses to S&P 500 players, and for the last five years I've run my own practice on word of mouth alone.

That arc matters: when I look at your numbers, I've usually seen your exact problem before, at three different company sizes.

MMI is named after Miss Molly, the senior of our two golden retrievers. My wife insisted. She was right.

Brandon Cantrell crouching between his two golden retrievers on a trail above the Columbia River Gorge
Miss Molly, Kevin, and the guy who works for them.

Working together is simple

  1. Call or text. You get me, not a front desk.
  2. Free scoping chat. We figure out what you actually need. Sometimes the answer is "less than you think."
  3. Clear proposal. Fixed scope, flat quote, no surprise invoices.

Fair questions

What does this cost?

Every engagement gets a flat, fixed quote before any work starts. Diligence work is priced per deal; CFO and accounting support are priced by cadence. No hourly meters running in the background.

Do you only work with Portland companies?

No. I'm based in Portland, but most of my work is remote and my clients are spread across the country. Numbers travel well.

What's a quality of earnings report, in plain English?

It answers one question: are the profits this business claims to make real, and will they still be there after you buy it? I verify the earnings, flag what's inflated or one-time, and tell you what the cash flow really looks like.

My books are a mess. Do I need to clean them up before calling?

Please don't. Messy books are half my job, and I'd rather see them as they are. There is no judgment here; I've seen far worse than whatever you're picturing.

What size company do you work with?

Mostly small and mid-size businesses: owner-operated companies, first-time buyers, and growing teams that need finance leadership before they can afford it full-time.

Talk to Brandon

One call, no obligation. Worst case, you leave with a straight answer.

(256) 694-5172

Prefer typing? brandon.cantrell@mmicpa.net