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Owen Bradley Power LLC Owen Bradley Power LLC provides Client Advisory Services to startups and small and medium-sized businesses.

We do the work of a seasoned CFO as needed on a fractional basis, thereby adding significant value to the business without the full-time cost.

10/19/2026

Revenue is vanity. Profit is opinion. Cash is reality.

It’s an old finance saying. But after spending most of my career working with and running businesses, I think there’s a lot of truth in it.

I’ve seen businesses celebrate record revenue while wondering how they’re going to make payroll. That sounds contradictory. It isn’t.

A business can grow revenue while:

• Margins decline
• Inventory piles up
• Customers take longer to pay
• Debt payments increase
• Overhead grows faster than sales
• Cash quietly disappears

Which is why, when someone tells me: “We had our best sales month ever!”, my instinct is to say: “Great. how me the cash, Jerry Maguire!”

Revenue matters as does profit, but ultimately, cash gives you options.

Options such as
- Hiring more people to support the growth.
- Investing in the business to better serve customers.
- Buying new equipment to be more efficient in delivery.
- Weathering a downturn with turning to high cost debt.
- Acquiring a competitor to lead the market.
- Or simply sleeping better at night.

So celebrate the record sales month, just don't stop there.

Follow the money all the way to cash. That's usually where the real story is.

🚀 Today is launch day.We’re excited to officially introduce POWER ACCOUNTING at the Utah SMB Summit & Expo.Most business...
10/14/2026

🚀 Today is launch day.

We’re excited to officially introduce POWER ACCOUNTING at the Utah SMB Summit & Expo.

Most business owners already have an accountant. Yet many still struggle to answer some of the most important questions in their businesses:

• Am I making enough profit?
• Why is cash always tight?
• Which customers actually make me money?
• How much is my business worth?
• What should I be doing now to increase value?

We believe accounting should do more than record history.

It should help business owners understand their numbers, make better decisions, improve profitability, strengthen cash flow, and build enterprise value.

That’s the vision behind POWER ACCOUNTING.

If you’re attending the Summit today, stop by our booth and say hello.

Accounting. Tax. Payroll.

Know where you are. Decide where you’re going.

Why launch another accounting firm?It's a fair question.Most business owners already have an accountant.But many still s...
10/13/2026

Why launch another accounting firm?

It's a fair question.

Most business owners already have an accountant.

But many still struggle to answer questions like:

• Am I making enough profit?
• Why is cash always tight?
• Which customers are actually making me money?
• How much is my business worth?
• What should I be doing now to increase value?

The accounting industry has traditionally focused on recording history.

At POWER ACCOUNTING, we want to help business owners shape the future.

Our vision is to combine:

✅ Accounting
✅ Tax
✅ CFO Advisory through POWER CFO
✅ Capital Advisory through POWER CAPITAL
✅ M&A Advisory through POWER M&A

into a solution designed specifically for growing owner-operated businesses.

Tomorrow, we'll officially introduce POWER ACCOUNTING at the Utah SMB Summit.

If you're attending, come see us and let's talk about where you want your business to go next.

Something new is coming.Over the years, I've helped business owners as a CFO, CEO, board advisor, and strategic finance ...
10/12/2026

Something new is coming.

Over the years, I've helped business owners as a CFO, CEO, board advisor, and strategic finance partner.

One thing has become clear:

Business owners need more than tax compliance.

They need a financial partner that helps them understand their numbers, improve profitability, strengthen cash flow, and build enterprise value.

That's why I'm excited to share that we'll be officially launching POWER ACCOUNTING this week at the Utah SMB Summit & Expo.

POWER ACCOUNTING is being built to help owner-operated businesses move beyond bookkeeping and compliance and gain the financial insight they need to make better business decisions.

If you'll be attending the Summit on Wednesday, stop by our booth and be among the first to learn what we're building.

This is just the beginning.

The most valuable businesses are not always the biggest businesses. They are often the clearest, most predictable, and m...
08/28/2026

The most valuable businesses are not always the biggest businesses. They are often the clearest, most predictable, and most transferable businesses.

A valuable business can explain:
• How it makes money
• Where margins come from
• What drives cash flow
• Which customers and jobs are most profitable
• What systems keep the business running
• Who owns key decisions
• How growth will be funded
• What risks need to be managed

That level of clarity does not happen by accident. It is built over time. Month by month. Report by report. Decision by decision. System by system.

That is why I believe CFO work is not just about accounting. It is about helping owners build a business that is easier to understand, easier to lead, easier to grow, and eventually easier to transition. A more valuable business is not built the year an owner wants to sell.

It is built in the years before anyone is talking about a sale. That is the work.

08/27/2026

Scalability Creates Value!

Most owner-operated companies don't know how to increase the value of their business. Here is a common situation: A busi...
08/26/2026

Most owner-operated companies don't know how to increase the value of their business.

Here is a common situation: A business is profitable. The owner is experienced. The company has customers, employees, equipment, and a real market position. But when someone looks at the business from the outside, the value is not as strong as the owner expected.

Why?

Often, it is not because the business lacks effort. It is because too much value is tied to the owner.

The owner holds the customer relationships.
The owner understands the margins.
The owner approves the pricing.
The owner knows which jobs are risky.
The owner manages cash by instinct.
The owner sees problems before anyone else does.

That experience is valuable, but if it cannot be transferred, repeated, or seen clearly, buyers, lenders, and successors may view it as risk.

Enterprise value is built before a transaction. It is built in the quality of the systems, the clarity of the numbers, the strength of the team, and the ability of the business to perform without everything depending on one person.

Owners need to improve profit, cash flow, and enterprise value so they can build a business worth buying.

There is a difference between hiring for growth and hiring for scale.Hiring for growth usually means: “We are busy, so w...
08/25/2026

There is a difference between hiring for growth and hiring for scale.

Hiring for growth usually means: “We are busy, so we need more people.” That may be true. But it can also lead to overhead growing just as fast as revenue.

Hiring for scale asks better questions:
• What work should this role remove from the owner?
• What decision will this person own?
• What process will become more consistent?
• What bottleneck will this solve?
• What metric should improve if this hire works?
• Will this role increase capacity or just add cost?

This matters because payroll is one of the easiest places for complexity to hide. A scalable business does not just add people. It adds capability.

Before making the next hire, I like to ask: "How will this person help the business grow more profitably, more predictably, or more independently?"

If the answer is not clear, the role may need more thought.

Not all growth is good growth. That sounds strange, especially when most businesses are trying to grow.Some growth creat...
08/24/2026

Not all growth is good growth. That sounds strange, especially when most businesses are trying to grow.

Some growth creates value, and some growth just creates complexity. A company can add revenue and still become less profitable, less predictable, and harder to manage.

I have seen growth create:
• Cash pressure
• Margin erosion
• Owner burnout
• More rework
• Slower decisions
• More overhead
• Messier reporting
• Customer concentration risk

The question is not just: “How do we grow?” The better question is: “How do we grow without making the business harder to run?”

I have a lot of respect for owner-operators.Most have built their companies through grit, instinct, relationships, and s...
08/21/2026

I have a lot of respect for owner-operators.

Most have built their companies through grit, instinct, relationships, and sheer persistence. That is not a small thing. But what gets a business to one stage often will not get it to the next.

At some point, the founder’s strength can become the company’s constraint. The same owner who knows every customer, every job, every vendor, and every cash pinch can unintentionally become the bottleneck. Not because they are doing something wrong. Because the business has outgrown the way it was originally managed.

This is when systems matter. I'm not talking about corporate bureaucracy with 200-page manuals.

I am talking about practical systems, the kind that help the business answer:
• Who owns this?
• What number tells us it is working?
• When do we review it?
• What happens if it goes off track?
• Who can make the decision?

A valuable business does not remove the owner’s leadership. It makes the business less dependent on the owner’s constant involvement. That is a very different thing.

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