Ed Dauphin

Since moving back to Lafayette in 1998, I have focused on providing part-time CFO services and business consulting to Louisiana entrepreneurs. My consulting service covers financial analysis, cash flow management, debt restructuring, profitability analysis, product pricing, gross profit margin analysis, cost / benefit analysis, overhead control and inventory management. 

I have been a QuickBooks Pro Advisor for 20 years and have setup scores of businesses with a custom QuickBooks accounting system. I have performed a number of accounting restructures and corrective accounting for poorly kept books to create an accounting system that provides a custom database and meaningful reports to assist the business with making management decisions. I typically provide training to owners and key team members on how to understand and use the balance sheet and profit and loss statement as a management tool and train accounting personnel in standard operating procedures. 

In addition to my own client base, I have been a third-party consultant providing services to the clients of the Small Business Development Center (LED SEBD Program) in Lafayette and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana for over 15 years. I have also been a member of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana Industrial Advisory Board since 2000 and served as its Chairman for 3 years.

SCORE (Service Corp of Retired Executives) and SBA Volunteer Organization (1999 – 2003) – I provided face to face business consulting to companies locally and via a national program that directed email inquiries to volunteers to assist business owners with various types of issues. 

26 Years of Executive Level Experience in the Banking Industry

Originally starting my banking career in Lafayette, Louisiana, with a combination of operations and commercial lending experience, I built a reputation that afforded me the opportunity to turnaround a failed bank bought from the FDIC by a group of investors in 1986. As President, I quickly transformed Louisiana Delta Bank into a high-performance bank. I exceeded investor goals by developing updated operational systems, reducing operational cost through the implementation of technology, and acquiring a large agricultural loan portfolio. In 1997 I assumed the role of CFO of the holding company, which owned Louisiana Delta Bank, other banks and loan related businesses. I left banking in 1998 to return home to South Louisiana and establish my business consulting practice