Better numbers. Better decisions.

Established business owners in St. Petersburg, across Tampa Bay, and throughout Florida, from professional practices to specialized industries like aviation. We shape the tax, accounting, and CFO work around your goals, whether you're growing or getting ready to sell.

Year-round. Ongoing planning is the core of what we do. We stay engaged through the year and adjust as your income, structure, and goals change, not just in April.

Four steps. We start with a conversation about your business: what's working, what isn't, and where you want to go. Then we go through your financials together and note what's solid and what needs attention. From there we build a plan covering taxes, spending, and growth with clear next steps, and we stay with you through the year as the business changes.

Hunter Brown, CPA, owns the firm and leads the advisory work. Behind him is a team of CPAs, accountants, and tax specialists across Brown Business Advisors' three Florida offices. Who handles your work depends on what you need, whether that's tax, accounting, a valuation, or a business sale.

Yes, and it is a significant part of the practice: valuing the business, preparing it so the numbers hold up under a buyer's scrutiny, exit planning, and advising through the sale itself. Most owners benefit from starting earlier than feels necessary, because the changes that raise a sale price take time to show up in the financial record.

We perform financial statement audits, which is the highest level of assurance a lender or investor can ask for, along with internal control and compliance reviews. If your bank has asked for something specific, tell us what the request actually says. Requirements vary, and matching the right level of work to the request saves both time and cost.

No. We work with business owners across Tampa Bay and throughout Florida, and plenty of the work happens without anyone driving anywhere. The St. Petersburg office is where we meet when meeting in person is useful, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Where your business is based matters far less than whether the work is a fit.

Our St. Petersburg office is at 360 Central Avenue, Suite 800, in downtown St. Pete, open Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. We're part of Brown Business Advisors, which also has offices in Winter Haven and Orlando.

More common than you would think, and a normal place to start from. The first step is the same either way: we look at where things actually stand, what is outstanding, and what needs attention first. You do not need the books tidy before getting in touch. That is often the work itself.

Send a message through the contact page or call our St. Petersburg office. We'll arrange a consultation to talk through the business and what you need. Bring recent financials if you have them to hand, though it isn't a requirement for a first conversation.