What We Do
Accel CFO is a professional services firm providing accounting, technology, and finance consulting, support, and transaction services to growing, small to mid-market businesses, and private investors.
Outsourced CFO Leadership
Interim CFO & transition support
Part-time CFO support
Operational & strategic financial guidance
Accounting Automation
Accounting system integrations
Automated reconciliations
Process streamlining & optimization
M&A Transaction Support
Acquisition support & diligence
Business valuation
Target integration planning
Financial Strategy
Financial modeling & planning
Cash flow & capital planning
Staffing optimization
ERP/EPM Optimization & Implementation
Implementation project management
User & process workflow design
Financial system integrations
Financial Visibility
BI dashboards & KPI flash reporting
Financial reporting workflow
Financial statement improvement
As a professional services firm, Accel CFO does not provide tax, legal, or accounting advice.
Dave Bybee
Principal Consultant
Meet Dave
Dave Bybee founded Accel CFO in 2018 and is the firm’s Principal Consultant, based in the Phoenix area. Accel CFO provides accounting, finance, and technology consulting and support services to growing, small to mid-market businesses, and private investors.
Dave brings more than 17 years of senior finance, accounting, and IT leadership experience with businesses across multiple industries, ranging from $5 million to $950 million in revenues. Prior to founding Accel CFO, he served as VP of Financial Operations for TouchPoint Promotions, a big-three rebate and incentive promotions business. In 2017 Dave guided TouchPoint through a successful sale to Blackhawk Network (NASDAQ: HAWK).
Dave has supported more than twenty successful buy and sell-side acquisitions with closely held and top tier private equity-sponsored businesses. Prior to TouchPoint, he served in the roles of Chief Financial Officer, Controller, and Assoc. Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis in the medical and multi-location aftermarket automotive segments.
Dave's true passion is partnering with owners of small and mid-market companies, enabling them to scale and grow the value of their businesses. With a focus on leveraging advanced workflow, automation, and analysis technologies, along with his foundation of accounting and finance leadership experience, Dave is able to guide business owners and their teams to identify and unlock significant productivity and value opportunities across their financial operations and back offices.
Dave earned his MBA with a concentration in Finance from Northern Arizona University’s W. A. Franke College of Business in 2002. He resides in Phoenix with his wife of more than 22 years, Setasha. In his free time Dave enjoys family time, golf, hiking the Grand Canyon, and bass fishing.
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“Dave is the consummate professional. His ability to see the big picture financially and technically then dig in deep with his team to execute a solution was phenomenal. I’d highly recommend him for any organization and I look forward to working with him again in the future.”
“I have always been impressed by Dave’s determination and focus on practical, efficient solutions. Along with Dave’s collaborative project management style, his financial and systems expertise will be an asset to any growing business. I recommend Dave and will continue engage Dave as a business process consultant. ”
“I’m my time working with Dave at Service King I always appreciated his dedication and pro-active approach... I asked Dave to take on the task of building an FP&A capability within Service King. He did this with extreme professionalism and quickly developed a go-to reputation across the various business functions. My description of Dave includes, smart, quick, detail oriented, high integrity, great manager, solid communicator and technically savvy. Given a chance, I would definitely welcome the chance to work with Dave again and give the strongest of endorsements for others that would consider the opportunity”
“He has a great work ethic and a very positive attitude. He is very focused on understanding business processes, and how they can be improved. He has been very successful doing this in several organizations, and with multiple ERP systems... I would highly recommend Dave...”
“Dave is the type of person that you want on your team... very professional and a team leader with lots of great ideas. I hope to work with Dave again soon. ”