Dan Cunningham

Current

• Owner at Business Ferret LLC

Past

• Senior Manager - Moss Adams Advisory Services at Moss Adams LLP

Education

• University of Washington

Recommended

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Connections

46 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My Website

Dan Cunningham’s Experience

• Owner

  Business Ferret LLC

  (Financial Services industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

  Dan has been in the financial consulting business for over 30 years.
  
  As a Senior Manager at Moss Adams LLP from 1998 to 2004, Dan worked on consulting projects that routinely involved practice management, business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and marketing. He has spoken nationally and internationally to major B/D, RIA, and custodial firms about valuations and mergers and acquisitions.
  
  He has directly consulted with several hundred companies and had discussions with hundreds more. Dan has consulted directly on the sales of over 150 businesses in the financial advisory industry across the country.
  
  In 2005 he started The Business Ferret LLC to advise businesses, using his proprietary, advanced financial spreadsheet for the comprehensive analysis of any type of business - service, manufacture, retail, or distribution.
  
  Using The Business Ferret Dan provides owners of businesses of any revenue size, privately-held or publicly-traded, with financial operating information that eliminates misunderstanding of finances as a reason for business failures or lack of increased financial gain. Dan typically finds monetary benefits that exceed his fee in excess of 10 times.
  
  Using accounting financial statements as a starting point, the Business Ferret interprets the data, affording the business owner and executive team the ability to make efficient and cost-effective decisions that increase cash flow and cost effectiveness, and eliminate inefficient financial operation. Dan continues to assist businesses with M & A work, acting from either the acquisition or selling side.

• Senior Manager - Moss Adams Advisory Services

  Moss Adams LLP

  (Partnership; Accounting industry)

  September 1998 — December 2004 (6 years 4 months)

  My consulting projects routinely involved business financial operations, business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and turnarounds. Spoke nationally and internationally to major brokerage firms representatives and advisors about valuations and mergers and acquisitions. Directly consulted with several hundred companies and had discussions with hundreds more. Consulted directly on the sale of over 150 businesses in the financial advisory industry.
  
  In first quarter of 2005 I contracted to redesign the Moss Adams LLP financial valuation model used to do valuation projects performed through their 25 branch offices.

Dan Cunningham’s Education

• University of Washington

  BA , Psychology, Criminal Justice , 1972 — 1975

Additional Information

Dan Cunningham’s Websites:

• My Website

Dan Cunningham’s Groups:

•    Finance & Accounting Professionals
•    Finance Professionals (Jobs & Networking)

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