About Your Fractional CFO

Real experience. Real financial leadership.

Most owners I meet have an accountant who files returns and a bookkeeper who records what happened. The strategic financial work, the proactive tax planning, the cash-flow picture that actually informs decisions: that’s the gap I built this practice to close.

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Strategic Advisory

Tax, cash flow, planning

Operational Finance

Forecasts, dashboards, KPIs

Growth Execution

Scale, M&A, planning

Buzz Rose

Pittsburgh, PA

30+

Years as a CPA

25+

Years as a business owner

200+

business owners served

Buzz Rose

Fractional CFO, CPA

I’m Buzz Rose, CPA, and I’ve worked with small-business owners in the Pittsburgh area for over 25 years. I started my career at an international accounting firm serving small businesses and high-net-worth executives, and saw how often the small owners were the ones putting everything on the line. I left to build my own CPA practice so I could work for the people doing the building. I’m a Duquesne grad with a master’s from Robert Morris.

I also wrote Napkin Math, a book about how a napkin, a pen, and a calculator can help service-business owners make more and work less. Outside the office, I’m married with a son, I coach youth hockey, and I do a fair amount of travelling with the family.

CPA

Diagnose

I start by getting clear on what’s actually happening in the numbers. I look at the books, the tax picture, and the cash situation, then come back with the handful of things worth tackling first.

Build

From there I build the financial infrastructure the business has been missing: a working cash forecast, a real tax plan, and reporting you can actually use. The services get sized to the business, not bolted on from a template.

Partner

The work then settles into a rhythm: regular check-ins, quarterly tax reviews, and a phone you can pick up when something real lands. I stay as your Fractional CFO, not a consultant who delivers a deck and disappears.

Partnership

Embedded in your business. Invested in your outcomes.

When tax decisions, cash calls, and growth choices land in one conversation, the planning gets better and the surprises get smaller. Here is what working together looks like day to day: I’m right beside you on the financial side, not handing down a report from outside.

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