BOSS Advisors

BOSS Advisors is a team of accountants, lawyers, and business consultants focused on arming Business Owners with the Systems & Strategies needed to succeed from startup to growth to sale.

Founder & CEO

Payne Law, PLC

Transactional law firm focusing on business, tax, and nonprofit matters in the beautiful valley of Phoenix, AZ

Member

Tax consulting, compliance, and planning related to protecting tax-exempt status, IRS audit defense strategies, tax provision reviews, and other federal and state tax matters for nonprofit corporations and tax-exempt organizations. 

In addition to serving my clients as a tax practitioner, I enjoy preparing national tax alerts for our practice and clients, giving presentations to and mentoring students interested in tax law, and staying involved in local and national recruiting efforts.

Tax Manager

Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, PLC

Transactional attorney specializing in:
  Tax Law
  Nonprofit Corporations & Tax-Exempt Organizations
  Corporate & Business Law
  Mergers & Acquisitions
  Trusts & Estates

Associate Attorney

Ernst & Young

Exempt Organizations
Private Foundations
State & Local Tax
Federal Income Tax
Advisory & Compliance - 990, 990-PF, 990-T
Tax Provision Review of Non-Profit Audits
Alternative Investments & Foreign Filings - 926, 8865, 5471, 8886

Tax Staff

Roger T. Bollard, PLLC

Income Tax Services - 1040, 1065, 1120S, 1120
Financial Statement Compilations & Reviews
Payroll Tax Services

Certified Public Accountant

Holm Wright Hyde & Hays

Drafted research memoranda regarding issues related to Arizona law including insurance subrogation, policy interpretation, products liability, personal injury, rules of evidence and procedure, and school law.

Law Clerk

Arizona Supreme Court, Staff Attorneys' Office

Drafted research memoranda regarding issues related to Arizona law and procedure.
Assisted staff attorneys with drafting of comprehensive summaries of relevant legal precedent for review by the Justices, and made recommendations for cases to be granted or denied appeal.

Extern

KPMG

Audit Intern

Accounting services including billing, budgeting, and internal financial statement production & analysis

Accounting Clerk

Legal & tax strategy for professionals & nonprofits | M&A deals | Legal structuring | Tax planning | Nonprofit Tax Exemption

I founded BOSS Advisors: a central hub of business lawyers, accountants, and business consultants, licensed to practice law in Arizona as an Alternative Business Structure. 🌵

We’re hyper-focused on helping business owners and nonprofit executives grow by implementing modern, scalable business practices. ☑️

Call me for BOSS Coaching: a subscription-based hybrid legal and business coaching method geared to help business owners: 👨🏾‍💼👩🏻‍🔧

- Stop worrying about the unknown
- Intentionally structure your business 
- Take measured, calculated risks
- Chase best practices
- Protect what you’ve built
- Create market value
- Take your life back 

Our onboarding process will help us understand your current business model, your goals, and your current pain points. 🧘🏽‍♂️

We'll prioritize the business functions that you decide are the most important, and assess the current health of each. 📝

We'll meet with you regularly and track your progress on an interactive dashboard.🚦

We don’t try to do everything. We surround ourselves with a deep network of trusted advisors. 🤝 

Call me when you’re ready to grow!

www.bossadv.com

Mike Payne, JD - CPA

8 years ago this month I gave EY notice that I was leaving to start my own firm. In retrospect, I applaud my naive energy, but I must admit I had no idea what I was doing. 😕 

That all changed when I came across David Cristello's Growing Your Firm podcast. For the first time in my short yet lonely entrepreneurial journey, I had found my people. I related deeply to firm owners with the same struggles as my own, and was inspired with their stories of success. 🚀

Now the journey has come full circle, as I'll be honored to speak at the 2025 Growing Your Firm Summit among some of my most respected peers:

🔥 Michael Ly
Dr. Jackie Meyer, CPA, CCTA 🦄
Randy Crabtree, CPA
Brandon Hall, CPA
Tal Ben Bassat (CPA, Esq.)
🐻 Dan Luthi
Keila Hill-Trawick, CPA, MBA
Darren Root
Jennifer Wilson

Come join the party 🎉 on Dec 4!

https://lnkd.in/gQvBep54

Legal & tax strategy for $1m+ Business | Real Estate | Nonprofit

Michael King

The CFO Accelerator

I help fractional CFOs start, scale, and optimize their advisory services.

Founder

We help you increase your PROFITS so you can increase your IMPACT.

Call Box

Director of SaaS Business Analytics

Kadant

District Sales Manager

Georgia-Pacific LLC

Operations Superintendent

US Navy

Nuclear Power Plant Supervisor

I help fractional CFOs and accountants build multiple 6 and 7-figure advisory firms through coaching and community.

I started building my Fractional CFO firm, KFE Solutions, 8+ years ago.

On my journey, I looked for a mentor that could show me how to build a firm that right way.

I looked for a community of other impact-drive Fractional CFOs that could support me and encourage me.

I couldn't find either.

I ended up making massive mistakes that ended up severely slowing my growth and costing me hundreds of thousands in lost profits.

Today, I have a firm and a team that I'm proud of. I've made it my mission to help firm owners that are coming after me avoid the mistakes I made so they can build the firm of their dreams faster.

That's why I built The CFO Accelerator.

Since launching, I've had the privilege of mentoring THOUSANDS of firm owners through our Inner Circle community, our flagship course called The CFO Academy, our annual conference called The CFO Accelerator LIVE, and our podcast and YouTube channels.  

If you're trying to scale your firm and your impact, I'd be honored to walk alongside you.

Let's get to work. Together.

I help fractional CFOs and accountants start, scale, and optimize their advisory services.

I've been tracking data on the Fractional CFO industry since 2023.
And this data point is beyond interesting... 

Here's how the number of Fractional CFOs on LinkedIn has grown since April of 2023: 

April 2023: 6,300+
April 2024: 13,000+
April 2025: 18,000+
November 2025: 21,000+

So that begs the question: 

Is the Fractional CFO industry saturated or is there still room to grow?

I'm putting together my thoughts on this question but I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments! 👇
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📸 Pic from the VIP breakfast at The 2025 CFO Accelerator LIVE in Orlando, FL.

I help Fractional CFOs start and scale their firms.

We all need someone in our life that just isn’t that impressed with us.

Once your Fractional CFO firm hits $500k to $750k in revenue, where do you go from there? 

It's interesting because at this stage, 
It's no long about proving you can BUILD a firm. 
It's about proving you can SCALE a Fractional CFO firm.

In a lot of ways, everything has to change.

The strategies. 
The standards.
The conversations. 

That's why I created The Elite Mastermind.

It's for Fractional CFO firm owners that have hit the $500k revenue mark and want to blow past 7-figures in 2026. 

We just opened applications for our 2026 cohort. 

👉 DM me for details. 

📌 This is becoming THE PLACE Fractional CFO firm owners come to hit 7- and multiple 7-figures. I'd love to tell you why.

Being a fCFO isn't always rainbows and butterflies!

Sometimes you'll have to handle tough calls... 

Let me start by saying this:
I love the work that we do in our industry! 

We have a unique opportunity to help our clients unlock additional profits, pay down debt, hire more people, and change lives - goose bump kinda stuff! 

But you're also likely to have to make some tough calls and make some hard decisions. Three of the toughest include: 

• Saying no to a prospect
• Not being able to serve a client any longer
• Getting harsh feedback from an irate client

These calls are inevitable and you can't hide from them.

So how you handle them means everything. 

I recently put together a free guide covering exactly how to handle each of these three types of calls. 

📌 Click here to check it out: 
https://lnkd.in/gWaPGhAC

2025 was a hard year for a lot of Fractional CFOs.
In many ways, it was more of the same... 

Same profit
Same revenue
Same problem with leads
Same problem with business growth

The only thing that WASN'T the same was the amount of hours you worked 
(Which trended in the wrong direction)

What went wrong? 

It turns out there are 5 hidden patterns that are low-key sabotaging even the smartest, hardest working firm owners. 

The bad news? 
If you want 2026 to be better than 2025, you'll have to break those patterns.

The good news? 
Those patterns are 100% solvable - which means 2026 should be your best year ever.

What are those patterns and how do you solve them? 

Join me on Wednesday, November 12 at 2pm ET / 11am PT for my Best Year Ever webinar.

I'm going to show you: 
• The 4 pillars for breakout growth in 2026
• The 5 hidden patterns that held you back in 2025
• Why 2026 is shaping up to be a rare opportunity for fCFOs

This isn't a rah-rah pep talk. 

It's a practical blueprint designed off of what I'm seeing work inside the fastest growing firms right now.

Sign up here:
https://lnkd.in/gcPxiytE

The amount of metrics a Fractional CFO COULD be monitoring as they scale from $100k to $500k can be dizzying.... 

Leads
Discovery calls
Sales calls 
Proposals sent
New clients
Revenue
Gross Profit
Net Profit
Time to value for clients
Client lifetime 
Revenue/profit/cash generated for clients

If you could only pick THREE to monitor, what would they be and why? 
Did I forget any? 

Let me know! 

📸 Cute pic of our dog because it's Thanksgiving week so why not?

Networking request: 
I’m looking for a Zoom Webinars guru. 

I have some questions I need help answering. Happy to pay for someone’s time. 

Who do I need to know?

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