Ryan Mathews, CPA, CFE
Partner, FAS Lead, Chair of Manufacturing and Retail Industry
Ryan Mathews is a Partner at Cooper Norman, leads the firm's FAS practice, and chairs the Manufacturing and Retail industry group. The files that reach him carry a decision attached: what the business is worth, what the inventory is actually costing, whether the number in front of an owner is the number. A CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner, he is the one brought in when the answer has to hold up in front of a lender, a buyer, or an auditor.
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As FAS lead, Ryan runs the work that gets called in when a number has to be established rather than reported. Business Valuation and Business Transition Planning sit in that lane, along with the harder conversation underneath them. What the company is worth to an outside buyer versus to the next generation. What the owner keeps. What the deal has to clear before it is worth doing. The CFE credential shapes how he reads a set of books: where a control is thin, where the ledger stopped reconciling, which figure is an estimate wearing a decimal point.
As chair of the Manufacturing and Retail industry group, he sits with owners on the choices that move real money. Buy the equipment or lease it. Hold price or change the mix. Bring a child into ownership or sell to the person already running the floor. Ryan gives the answer with the reasoning attached, so the decision can be defended in the room after he leaves it. Behind him is one connected team that has been doing this since 1954, six offices across Idaho and Utah, working the same file from tax planning through audit, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
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