Finance & Accounting for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Our Purpose is to Champion and Guide Founders, Operators, Entrepreneurs, and Owners on Their Mission to Drive Growth, Progress, and Innovation
We do this by building finance and accounting into a foundational core within our clients’ businesses. This core provides stability, it improves decision making, and it provides for immense agility.
empowering your business’s future
At Ballast, we specialize in embedding robust finance and accounting practices into small businesses, providing stability, enhanced decision-making, and unmatched agility. Our commitment is to support and drive the growth and success of each client we partner with.
What Makes Us Different?
Our consulting and advisory work is about driving improvements in our clients’ businesses. We use our accounting and finance services as the foundation and then we layer in a persistent and consistent cadence of planning, analysis, and review of initiatives to support execution.
Who We Serve
Founders ready to elevate their financial strategy to the next level
Operators seeking reliable frameworks for objective decision-making
Entrepreneurs who value a blend of agility, precision, and practicality
Small business owners committed to long-term growth and stability
Our Promise & Strengths
With Ballast, you gain more than just a service; you gain a partnership that promises:
Integrated Finance and Accounting: Seamless synergy of finance and accounting to fortify your business's backbone.
Deep & Focused Expertise: Access to profound insights that accelerate and enhance decision-making capabilities.
Ongoing Collaboration: Continuous engagement that aligns with your goals for sustained progress and achievement.
Tailored Plans: Customized strategies that reflect your unique business journey and aspirations.
Process-Driven Results: A structured approach ensuring clarity, consistency, and accountability at every step.
We are professionals who use financial data to support strategy. We design, build, and actively manage the operational finance and accounting of small businesses to form the bedrock of decision-making and support our clients on their journey and mission.
What Our Clients Say
Client Spotlight: Top Line's Path to Strategic Growth with Ballast
“In less than 90 days, Ballast has been able to give us the financial visibility into our business we need to make informed investment decisions and sustain a high growth rate."
Rapid Achievement of Financial Clarity
Financial Visibility: Essential for making informed decisions.
Strategic & Tactical Management: Handling FP&A complexity effortlessly.
Cost-Effective: Solutions at a price point our P&L can support.
"After trying various approaches to building our finance function over the past few years, I finally feel like we have a solution to manage the strategic and tactical financial planning and accounting complexity required to grow our business at a price point our P&L can support."
Tom Corbitt
Founder & Managing Partner, Top Line Growth
Client Spotlight: Blue Ocean Brain & Ballast
“Ballast is an all-around standout partner in managing the financial side of Blue Ocean Brain. Collaborative and detailed, their financial acumen provides us with new insights and guidance as we manage through a rapid growth phase."
Collaborative and Insightful Financial Management
Expert Guidance: Offering new insights that drive our strategic decisions.
Detail-Oriented: Attention to every financial aspect ensures nothing is overlooked.
Growth Support: Tailored financial strategies that support our rapid expansion phase.
"By far, our most outstanding experience working with outside consultants. We truly see their team as an extension of our own."
Claire Herring
Blue Ocean Brain
Client Spotlight: Outdoor Access's Financial Evolution with Ballast
“Ballast brings a keen eye to managing the financial side of our business, with a unique ability to see the big picture while identifying key tactics that will have a big impact on our business."
Comprehensive and Continuous Financial Oversight
Immediate Value & Long-Term Results: Quick benefits with sustained efforts.
Detail & Big Picture: Balancing strategic oversight with impactful tactics.
Personal Engagement: Dedication to understanding and improving team dynamics.
"Their approach provided immediate value and results, but they have never rested on their laurels, as they continued to work hard years after we first brought them onto our team. Ballast spends the time getting to know everyone at our company; they help us manage the people part of the changes we made to improve our financial processes."
“They come with my strongest recommendation.”
Jamie Christensen
Former President & Co-Founder, Outdoor Access
Client Spotlight: KidMed's Partnership with Ballast
“With Ballast, KidMed has a true business partner. The value we have received has surpassed the cost many times over."
Focused Expertise for Optimal Results
True Partnership: Collaborative and supportive, enabling focused expertise.
Exceptional Value: Delivering financial management that exceeds expectations in cost-efficiency.
Specialization in Action: Ballast manages our finances so we can focus on our mission—taking care of the medical needs of sick and injured kids.
"Ballast does what they do best, which allows us to concentrate on what we do best—taking care of the medical needs of sick and injured kids."
Dr. Jeff Bennett
Managing Partner, KidMed
Client Spotlight: Gather Workspaces Enhanced by Ballast Consulting
“I have been exceedingly pleased with the finance and accounting services I have received from Ballast Consulting."
Rapid and Effective Financial Upgrades
Expert Team: Work with smart, knowledgeable, and responsive professionals.
Elevated Services: Our finance and accounting reached new heights within two months.
Strongest Recommendation: The highest recommendation was based on exceptional service and outcomes.
"In just two months, they have taken our finance and accounting to a new level. I give Ballast Consulting my highest recommendation."
Doug White
Gather Workspaces
