Accounting systems and clean books
QuickBooks Online setup, cleanup, chart of accounts design, reconciliation support, and month-end workflows that make your numbers easier to trust.
CPA advisory for owner-led businesses
Accounting and tax guidance that keeps the next decision clear.
Bennison CPA and Consultants helps small businesses, professionals, and growing teams make sense of the numbers, clean up financial operations, and plan the next move with confidence.
15+ years across audit, assurance, consulting, and client accounting.
CPA-led work with direct access to the person doing the thinking.
Practical deliverables built for decisions, not just compliance folders.
Services
Focused help for the places financial work gets messy.
The firm is built for thoughtful, right-sized engagements: enough structure to be dependable, without burying you in layers, handoffs, or generic checklists.
Tax planning and preparation
Individual and small-business tax support for clients who want tax work connected to the full financial picture, not handled as a last-minute filing exercise.
Advisory and project work
Help with cash flow questions, finance process improvements, management reporting, and decision support when you need a CPA perspective on a specific business issue.
Transaction and diligence support
Project-based support for business transitions, quality-of-earnings style review, financial statement analysis, and preparation for lender, buyer, or stakeholder requests.
Industry focus
Support for businesses where the accounting has real operational texture.
Craig’s background includes assurance leadership, due diligence, consulting, and finance leadership across owner-led businesses and organizations with project, inventory, labor, revenue recognition, and reporting complexity.
Construction
Project-based accounting, job cost visibility, WIP considerations, contractor reporting, and cleaner systems for owners who need to understand margin by job.
Manufacturing
Inventory, production costs, margin analysis, internal controls, and reporting support for teams that need better numbers behind pricing and operating decisions.
Service organizations
Professional services, SaaS and technology, nonprofit, and recurring-service models where revenue recognition, cash flow, clean bookkeeping, timely reporting, and practical advisory support matter.
Bio
Meet Craig Bennison, CPA.
Craig Bennison is a CPA licensed in Florida and Ohio with experience across assurance, consulting, client accounting, due diligence, and hands-on finance leadership. Before starting Bennison CPA and Consultants, Craig served in assurance leadership roles with HBK and RSM, working with manufacturing, construction, SaaS and technology, distribution, nonprofit, college and university, and service-organization clients.
Craig also spent three years as CFO of a technology company, giving him a practical operator’s view of the relationship between finance, systems, reporting, and business decisions. He started the firm to give business owners direct help from someone who can see both the accounting details and the bigger business question behind them.
He earned both a Master of Science in Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Kent State University. The firm works especially well for clients who value clear explanations, clean follow-through, and advisory work that translates into next steps.
How it works
A straightforward first conversation.
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Share the situation
Send a short note about your business, your deadline, and the question you are trying to answer.
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Scope the right help
Craig will identify whether this is a quick advisory call, a tax engagement, cleanup work, or a project.
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Move with clarity
You will know the next step, what information is needed, and what the engagement is intended to solve.
FAQs
Common questions before reaching out.
Do you work with clients outside Central Florida?
Yes. Bennison CPA is based in Central Florida and can support many engagements virtually across the United States.
What type of client is the best fit?
Owner-led businesses, professionals, and small teams that want accounting, tax, or advisory work tied to practical business decisions.
Can you help clean up QuickBooks Online?
Yes. Cleanup, reconciliation, chart of accounts refinement, and process setup are all strong fits for the firm.
Do you handle tax-only work?
Selective tax engagements are available, especially when the tax work connects to broader planning, bookkeeping, or advisory needs.
What happens after I send the form?
Your message opens in your email app so you can review and send it directly to Craig. He can then follow up with next steps.
Contact
Send the context. Craig will help sort the next step.
If we just met, include where we connected and the financial question on your mind. A few sentences are enough to start.
craig@bennisoncpa.com