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Accounting and CFO Services for Festivals, Venues & Large-Scale Events

See what each show, gate, and vendor contributes, and manage cash when venue revenue arrives in bursts while costs continue throughout the year.

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Erick Gamez, Founder
Events & Experiences
WM Phoenix Open
ALIC
EPI Promotions
Sports & Recreation
Padel Pals
Lost Dutchman Marathon
Buzzed Honey
Sound familiar?

If these are the conversations you are having, we should talk.

“Ticketing, F&B, vendors, and sponsorship all settle differently and nobody reconciles them against each other.”

“We run a dozen events a year and can’t tell you which ones actually made money.”

“Our revenue arrives in a few big windows and the bills come all year.”

“We know the gate. We couldn’t tell you the margin after everyone is paid.”

What We Do

We help festivals and venues increase profit, improve pricing, and reinvest for growth.

Make decisions with real numbers
A GGS reporting deck showing headline numbers and how each line is trending

Clean books you can trust

Bookkeeping organized by event and show, with QuickBooks set up around your venues, promoters, and vendors.

Know which shows actually make money

Per-event and per-show P&L covering ticketing, concessions, parking, and vendor splits, plus labor as a percentage of revenue.

See the next month before it arrives

A 13-week cash forecast and break-even in tickets sold, so you know whether a show clears before you book it.

What we do here

Here is how we help.

Service

Per-Event & Per-Show P&L

Profitability by event, by show, and by revenue stream, so programming decisions are made on what each one actually contributes.

Service

Vendor, Concession & Ticketing Reconciliation

Ticketing platforms, concession and F&B activity, and vendor settlements matched to each other and the bank, with variances documented.

Service

Cash Flow & Seasonality

Modeling the gap between when revenue lands and when costs hit, so a full calendar of events does not create a cash problem between them.

Service

Monthly Close & Board Reporting

Clean books year round and reporting a board, owner, or sponsor can trust, built for how a venue actually makes decisions.

Proof

Work we have actually done.

Large-Scale Events · WM Phoenix Open

Building the 2027 P&L before the year starts.

Planning an event at championship scale means committing to vendors long before revenue arrives. For the 2027 WM Phoenix Open, we are building the P&L before the event.

The work starts with the chart of accounts. We built the account structure first, then planned across multiple vendors so commitments and compliance requirements are recorded in one place.

The goal is to know what the 2027 event will cost well before the tournament arrives.

2027P&L built in advance
Multi-vendorplanning in one view
New COAstructured to the event

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Run the calendar on real numbers.

Tell us how your venue or festival is set up and we will show you which events carry the venue and which ones lose money.

Get In Touch

Run the calendar on real numbers.

Tell us how your venue or festival is set up and we will show you which events carry the venue and which ones lose money. We will get back to you within one business day. You can also text or call (480) 430-2772.

erick@growthgroupsolutions.com
(480) 430-2772
East Valley, Arizona

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