Porthouse & Associates, LLC
A considered approach to business and how it develops over time.
Porthouse & Associates, LLC is a business founded on careful observation, practical structure, and a close understanding of how owner-operated businesses develop over time.
About
About Porthouse & Associates
Porthouse & Associates, LLC is owned by Dawn Porthouse, MBA, EA. The firm grew out of her years of CFO and tax advisory work with owner-operated businesses and now focuses on publishing.
Deliberate Drift, its weekly publication and podcast, examines how businesses change through accumulated decisions. Owner Numbers Review Notes offers practical writing for owners about their numbers, drawn from patterns seen often in advisory work.
Dawn Porthouse, MBA, EA
Publications & resources
Publications
Both publications grow from the same idea: that better decisions begin with looking carefully at what is already happening.
Publication & podcast
Deliberate Drift
Analysis of how businesses change over time
Deliberate Drift is a weekly publication and podcast that follows how businesses drift, through accumulated decisions, toward constraint, failure, recovery, or advantage. Each analysis looks at the decision logic and incentives behind those choices, and at how options narrowed or opened as a result, rather than judging outcomes in hindsight.
Publication
Owner Numbers Review Notes
Practical writing about your business numbers
Owner Numbers Review Notes looks at the financial patterns owners run into, such as what cash is available to use, how timing affects cash flow, and what to keep in mind as tax obligations approach. It draws on years of CFO and tax advisory work and is educational, not tax, bookkeeping, or individualized financial advice.
Clients
Existing clients
CFO, tax, and bookkeeping services are for existing clients only.
Existing clients may continue to use the designated client portal for documents, communication, and other ongoing matters.
Contact
Contact
Mailing address:
440 Louisiana St., Suite 900
Houston, TX 77002