The books your
business runs on —
kept by hand,
by a team that
knows yours.
Mandrell's CFO is a family-owned operational accounting firm in Gainesville, Florida. We run the day-to-day — AR, AP, payroll, sales tax, cash flow, controls — and hand your CPA a clean year-end binder.
Eight disciplines, one accountable team — the full operational accounting stack, short of filing your taxes.
Custom budgets, forecasts, and financial roadmaps. Department-level efficiency analysis, contract and banking negotiation, and control reviews that catch leaks before they cost you.
Multiple service levels — from monthly close to full back-office. Bank and credit-card reconciliations, AR, AP, general ledger, and financial statements you can read.
Timely, accurate pay, multi-state where required. Tax deposits, payroll tax returns, and specialized handling of garnishments — your team gets paid; you get the records.
Recruiting, onboarding, regulatory compliance, benefits administration, and organizational culture. We advise leadership on performance management and staff development.
Periodic internal reviews of policies, procedures, and systems against industry best practices — with the control changes that mitigate loss and reduce exposure.
Sales, use, and payroll tax returns — monthly, quarterly, annual, or semi-weekly. Florida and multi-jurisdiction. Submitted accurately, on time, and audit-ready.
Budget creation, financial monitoring, collection-cycle analysis, and vendor payment timing — so cash works for you, not against you.
Comprehensive training in accounting and HR for your in-house team. Internal advancement, not dependence — we leave you stronger than we found you.
At year-end, we package everything your CPA needs to file. No scramble in February, no missing receipts, no awkward emails — just a clean binder.
What an engagement looks like, across a year — from the first invoice you book to the binder your CPA actually wants.
The flow of the business.
- AR billing and collections
- AP entry, approvals, payments
- Deposits and classifications
- Payroll runs on cadence
The picture comes into focus.
- Bank and credit-card reconciliations
- Journal entries and accruals
- Sales tax preparation and filing
- Financial statements you can read
The conversation with ownership.
- Strategic review with the CFO
- Controls and risk check
- Rolling 13-week cash forecast
- Budget vs. actual, in plain language
The handoff to your CPA.
- Asset depreciation schedules
- Tie-outs and supporting workpapers
- 1099s and W-2 reconciliation
- A clean package your CPA can file
We do our best work for owner-operated, service-based businesses doing $500K to $30M — particularly in trades where margins live in the details.
Deep expertise in the trades — and the patience for the messy back-office that comes with them.
- 01 Generator Sales & Rental
- 02 Building Services & Trades
- 03 Specialty Contractors
- 04 Equipment Dealers
- 05 Service-based SMBs
- 06 Owner-operated, 2nd generation
- 07 Multi-entity, multi-state
- 08 Growth-stage operators
A family that does the books for families that built businesses.
Mandrell's CFO Services was founded in 2018 by Christina and Shane Mandrell — a husband-and-wife team with a combined four decades of corporate finance and business ownership.
Christina spent twenty-one years inside the books of growing companies — including Inc. 5000 firms — as a corporate controller across automotive, e-commerce, and operations. She runs the firm the way she once ran a controllership: with discipline, calm, and a refusal to be surprised in February.
Shane is a retired Navy reservist, a University of Florida engineer, and the owner-operator of Mandrell's Pressure Cleaning — five locations from North Central Florida to Tampa. He brings the operator's view to every engagement.
Together, they built a firm that runs on something simple: match the right people to the right business — and stay close enough to actually know it.
Real bench depth — clerks, assistant controllers, controllers, and CFO-level talent. We assign the right level for the work, and adjust as you grow.
What you actually get when you hand the books to us.
A team, not a person.
You get a clerk doing the entries, a controller reviewing them, and a CFO on the strategic calls. No single point of failure, no scramble when someone takes a Friday off.
Personality fit on purpose.
We match our people to your business — how you operate, how you communicate, what you actually need in a partner. It shows up in every email and every Monday call.
Seamlessly integrated.
We become an extension of your office — close enough that your customers, your vendors, and your CPA can't tell where you stop and we begin.
Your financial business
is our business.
Tell us about your business.
A short, secure intake — about ten minutes. If we're a fit, you'll be on a call with Shane or Christina within a week.
Gainesville, FL 32601