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Your accounting system tells you if you were profitable last month.

We tell you before it's too late.

Bradley & Company pairs a CMA’s financial discipline with two decades of leadership across accounting, finance, and HR — and years of running a business from the owner’s chair. We focus on small to mid-sized businesses in a few key industries.

FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DESK

I've sat in the chair you're sitting in right now.

I'm Bradley J. Combs, a CMA and the founder of Bradley & Company. Before this practice, I spent a decade as co-owner and President of a calibration laboratory and an instrument manufacturing business — together they reached roughly $25M in revenue and about 100 employees. I made payroll through the hard months, and we sold the two businesses separately. With years of consulting experience and running my own business, I know how to convert financial reports into something you can use. You don't need an accounting degree. You can use mine. Read the full story →

That's the gap most accounting relationships leave open. The reports arrive on time and the numbers tie out — and the owner is still left to figure out what to actually do about it.

We don't just produce reports. We tell you what they mean.
WORKS WITH YOUR SYSTEMS

Any financial software. Your data, stored on your system.

Use what you already know — we'll adjust to your needs. Business Central, QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, or something else entirely: you send reports on the cadence you choose, or you grant remote access and we work directly inside your system. No re-platforming required to get CFO-grade reporting.

Send us reports

Export your standard financial reports on whatever schedule you need and we build the CFO package around them — no new logins for your team to manage.

Grant remote access

Prefer we work directly in your financial software? We connect remotely and pull what we need on our own schedule, out of your team's way.

Same output, either way

Cash flow, KPI scorecards, budget-to-actual, and forward forecasting — the deliverable doesn't change based on how we got the data.

WHO WE SERVE

Built for four industries, on purpose

Construction, manufacturing, food manufacturing, and professional services all carry financial complexity most generalist accountants underestimate — job costing, equipment financing, inventory and yield, utilization and engagement economics. We only serve these four, so we go deep instead of wide.

Construction & remodeling

Job costing accuracy, WIP schedules, retainage tracking, and margin visibility by project — not just by month.

Manufacturing

Job and unit costing, equipment financing, inventory visibility, and labor efficiency across the production floor.

Food manufacturing

Batch and yield costing, ingredient cost volatility, and margin pressure from compliance and shelf life.

Professional services

Utilization and realization tracking, engagement-level profitability, and cash flow timing around billing cycles.

See the full industry breakdown

CERTIFIED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

Decision support, not just historical reporting

A CMA credential means the work goes past compliance and into the numbers that change what you do next: budgeting, forecasting, and business strategy support built into every cycle.

TRADITIONAL ACCOUNTANT

  • Reports what already happened
  • Delivers financials, moves on
  • Annual planning conversation, if any

CMA APPROACH

  • Forecasts what happens next
  • Delivers financials plus what they mean
  • Budgeting and strategy built into every cycle
HOW WE THINK ABOUT IT

The customer comes first. Then whoever's working with them.

The most important person in the company is the customer. That's a no-brainer. The second most important person is whoever is working with the customer — and the reporting we build is meant to support that person, not just the owner reading it at month-end.

Ready to see what CFO-grade reporting looks like on your numbers?

A 30-minute call at no cost: how you get your numbers today, what you wish you knew sooner, and whether an engagement makes sense.