About Us

BARRY KNEPPER, CPA, is the President and founder of CFO Business Solutions, which provides the guidance of a chief financial officer on a part time basis. Many businesses only need the skills of a CFO for a few days per month; therefore, a full time CFO or controller is not cost effective.  Our clients include growing companies that don't have the resources to hire a full time chief financial officer, companies with financial and/or operational issues and established companies in which the owner wants to dedicate more time to growing the business. Barry has over thirty five years of experience as a CFO and with the international public accounting firm, Ernst and Young.

CFO Business Solutions can help you acquire the financing you need for growth or survival.  We have well established relationships with alternative sources of financing that can provide your company with the funding it needs. Raising capital is complex and time consuming. As a business owner, if you devote too much time to this process you will  take your eyes off of running your business. Mr. Knepper has raised over $100 million in financing and while serving as the CFO of a public company, arranged for the first ever Industrial Development Bond to be issued by the City of Los Angeles.

We specialize in helping companies that have financial difficulties and are looking to restructure.  Our expert guidance will help your company execute all aspects of a financial restructuring. Mr. Knepper's turnaround experience includes having served as the CFO of a company that specialized in acquiring and resuscitating troubled companies and as the CFO of a public company that went through a financial restructuring.

Mr. Knepper has significant experience in the franchise and restaurant fields having served as a CFO on both a full time and part time basis for franchisors in the food service business and through the performance of royalty audits for franchisors. As a CPA, he also performs financial statement audits for franchisors.

Additional areas of expertise include cash management and budgeting, insurance and risk management, employee benefit plans, union negotiations, tax planning and compliance, SEC reporting, investor relations and acquisition due diligence.As the treasurer of the trade group The International Teleproduction Society, Mr. Knepper developed and implemented the industry's first employee salary and capital expenditures survey. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is chairman of the audit committee of the Board of Directors of Coffee Holding Company, a publicly traded corporation.

		American Institute of Certified Public Accountants		Coffee Holdings Company