Morrison & Company was founded in 2002 to provide specialized consulting services, including feasibility studies and business plans, assistance with business acquisitions and financing transactions, accounting system and internal control design, interim executive engagements, and specialized grant writing. 

Morrison & Company’s professional advisors come from the same place as you:  the real world.  They have held substantial positions in industry and can put that experience to work for you.  (Click here for a list of representative clients.)

Principal R. Brent Morrison, CPA, has nearly 30 years' experience serving processing, manufacturing, agribusiness, distribution, and other companies as an executive and advisor.    

Brent was formerly Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sunsweet Growers Inc., one of the nation's premier producers of juices and dried fruit products.  Before joining Sunsweet, he was President of Butte County Rice Growers Association (BUCRA), an agribusiness service and supply company.

While Senior Manager with the “Big Four” accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, Brent helped found and direct the Sacramento office forensic accounting practice, assisting clients with business-related legal issues.  He also led the Sacramento office's Food & Consumer Products Industry Group.  Brent was previously controller for a manufacturer of heavy equipment and structural steel components.  He began his career with a predecessor firm of KPMG. 

Brent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and is a Certified Public Accountant.  He is a graduate fellow of the California Agricultural Leadership Program, a two-year educational fellowship hosted by four participating universities.  He is a certified Six Sigma “Champion,” the continuous process improvement methodology favored by General Electric and other major manufacturers.

Brent is a member and past President of the Far Western Chapter of the National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives and a past director of the Agricultural Leadership Alumni.  He has served with many professional and civic organizations, including an appointment to a state advisory board by then California Secretary of Food & Agriculture (and later USDA Secretary) Ann Veneman.  A published writer, Brent wrote "The Brent Morrison Column," which appeared in several western newspapers for over eight years.

Consultant Geoffrey R. Chinnock, CPA, joined Morrison & Company after three years with the finance and accounting department of Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California, where he played an integral part in the hospital’s financial management. 

Prior to joining Feather River Hospital, Geoff served with local and regionally based CPA firms for four years, providing advisory, tax, audit, and financial services to independent business clients.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting and is a member of the National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives.

Geoff works with Morrison & Company clients in industries including manufacturing/processing, distribution, and marketing, with a focus on cost controls, systems improvement, finance/accounting efficiency, and short- and long-range planning.  He has served several clients as an interim controller/CFO.

Consultant Stacy Kennedy, CPA, has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Paradise Valley Investment Group, LLC; CFO at Allegro Ventures, Inc., and; controller at ITEX Corporation.  She began her career with the CPA firm Arthur Anderson. Stacy holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University-Stanislaus and has been a Bootcamp Instructor & Field Trainer at the Enlightened Wealth Institute

Stacy works with Morrison & Company clients in industries including real estate, manufacturing/ processing, distribution, marketing, and property management with a focus on profit planning, systems improvement, finance/accounting efficiency, short- and long-range planning, and grants and grant-related projects. 

Consultant Morgan A. Chinnock is a consultant in our grant writing practice, assisting with grant proposals, research, and grant administration. 

Morgan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an emphasis in writing and has taught composition at the college level.  Her writing and research experience is broad and varied, including technical writing, news articles and interviews, press releases, and in-depth profiles.  Morgan copyedited Pacific Union College’s literary and art journal and recently ghostwrote "The War Within," the memoir of a German World War II survivor (published in 2009).

Morgan was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist and is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society.