Montana's Flathead Valley — home of 406 Consulting Group
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About Us

Founded in Montana's Flathead Valley, now serving growing businesses nationwide with a focus on financial infrastructure, reporting, and growth support.

Montana-Based. Serving Clients Nationwide.

Credentials & Background

Enterprise experience. Applied to your business.

406 Consulting Group was founded by two principals whose backgrounds span enterprise operations, global forecasting, and real-world business ownership — experience that shapes how we advise today.

Carrie Anderson

Co-Founder & Principal Analyst

BP — Global Financial Forecasting

Recognized for forecast accuracy across global teams, including Singapore and Budapest

Former Corporate Controller

Multi-entity financial infrastructure at scale

Active Commercial Loan Analyst — Montana Community Bank

300+ commercial loans analyzed, packaged, and recommended over 10+ years

FDIC Examination Support

Supports the bank through regulatory reviews and examinations

Work reviewed in KPMG & Wipfli environments

Held up through review processes involving major firms

Family background in acquisition & turnaround

Gas stations, retail properties — buy, fix, sell

Jason Anderson

Co-Founder & Principal Advisor

BP — Lead Operator & Accounting Manager

Enterprise-scale operations where a bad decision cost millions

Identified $75M+ in unbilled inventory at BP

Built the reconciliation process used to recover it

Managed ~1M barrels/5 days on Colonial Pipeline

Multi-state corridor from Pasadena, TX to Linden, NJ

System replicated by Accenture

Excel model rebuilt as a web app — still in use 25+ years later

Consulted by local banks for tax analysis

Institutional trust in analytical judgment

Architect of custom financial tools for trucking and craft beverage clients

Conceived and drove the design of both industry-specific financial tools

B.S. Accounting · 10+ years tax preparation

Academic credential backed by deep applied experience

25+

Years combined experience

300+

Commercial loans analyzed

KPMG · Wipfli

Firms that have reviewed our work

25 yrs

Oldest system still in production

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LEADERSHIP

Your Strategic Partners

Two decades of building financial infrastructure for businesses that refuse to stay small

Built on real operational experience — not accounting theory.

Carrie Anderson

Co-Founder & Principal Analyst

• BP — Global Financial Forecasting

• Former Corporate Controller

• Active Commercial Loan Analyst — Montana Community Bank

• 300+ Commercial Loans Analyzed & Packaged

• FDIC Examination Support

• Work reviewed by KPMG & Wipfli

• Family background in business acquisition & turnaround

Carrie Anderson's career is defined by financial models that hold up under the most demanding scrutiny. At BP, Carrie was recognized for forecast accuracy across global teams, including partners in Singapore and Budapest. She served as a Controller for a major corporation before co-founding 406 Consulting Group, building financial infrastructure that scaled with complex, multi-entity operations.

When a regional bank needed help with its quarterly call report, Carrie rebuilt the model from scratch — reducing a 40-hour quarterly process to a few hours. The report drew sustained regulatory scrutiny over two years and held up through that review, reinforcing its accuracy and structure.

For over 10 years, Carrie has served as a contracted commercial loan analyst for a Montana community bank — spreading financials, building loan packages, and providing recommendations the bank president relies on. She has analyzed and packaged 300+ commercial loans, and she supports the bank through FDIC examinations and regulatory reviews. When she helps a client prepare for a commercial loan, she brings the lender's perspective to the table. The same analysis she applies to your loan package is the analysis lenders use to approve or deny it.

Her work has held up in review environments involving firms such as KPMG and Wipfli. She brings that same standard of rigor to every 406 client — financial modeling, reporting architecture, and analytical depth that most firms simply can't match. Her favorite saying: “If you can think it, I can build it.”

Before her corporate career, Carrie grew up in a family that built and operated commercial businesses — gas stations, retail properties, and other ventures across the region. Her family's model was to acquire underperforming businesses, fix the operations and financials, and sell them at a profit. She was part of that process from a young age. That background gives her an instinct for operational reality that most financial analysts never develop — she doesn't just build models, she understands the businesses behind them.

Jason Anderson

Co-Founder & Principal Advisor

• BP — Lead Operator & Accounting Manager

• Uncovered $75M+ in unbilled inventory at BP

• Managed ~1M barrels/5 days on Colonial Pipeline

• System replicated by Accenture — still in use 25+ years later

• Consulted by local banks for tax analysis

• Architect of custom financial tools for trucking and craft beverage clients

• B.S. Accounting · 10+ years tax preparation

Prior to founding 406 Consulting Group, Jason spent a decade at BP in progressively senior operational and analytical roles. He began as an inventory analyst — and within that role uncovered more than $75 million in unbilled inventory, money BP didn't know it was owed. He built the reconciliation system that recovered it, an Excel-based tool that was later rebuilt as a web application and remains in use more than 25 years later.

From there, Jason moved into oil operations, scheduling petroleum on Colonial Pipeline for BP — managing inventory across a multi-state corridor from Pasadena, Texas to Linden, New Jersey, and shipping nearly one million barrels every five days. He optimized inventory positions across contango and backwardation markets, and eventually moved to the fuel oil trading bench, managing operations out of New York Harbor, Panama, Houston, and Louisiana offshore. In multiple operating roles, Jason helped improve throughput and execution in environments where mistakes carried immediate financial consequences.

What made Jason's BP career distinctive wasn't just the scale — it was the operational complexity he had to manage across it. He coordinated with multiple contractors and counterparties across industries, planned and scheduled the movement of ships and barges, ensured compliance with federal and state regulations, managed deals and held the firm to contract performance, worked directly with sales and trading teams, and reported to BP executives.

Jason holds a degree in accounting and brings more than 10 years of tax preparation experience to the firm. That operational intelligence — the ability to find what others miss, build tools others don't think to build, and see the path to profitability that wasn't visible before — is what he brings to every client engagement at 406.

OUR TEAM

Supported by Expert Professionals

Jason and Carrie lead a team of CPAs, senior accountants, and tax specialists with over 50 years of combined experience. We maintain a lean, expert team supported by best-in-class technology and systems—ensuring you get strategic leadership with efficient execution.

From foundational bookkeeping to CFO-level strategy, our team has the depth and expertise to support your growth at every stage.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

The G.R.O.W.T.H. Framework

Our mission is to empower businesses to reach their fullest potential through six core principles

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Grounded in Your Numbers

We don't give generic advice. Every recommendation starts with your actual books — your margins, your cash cycle, your payroll structure. A Montana contractor we work with discovered he was losing 11% gross margin on his largest jobs because his job costing wasn't capturing change orders. That's the kind of insight that changes decisions.

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Real-Time Visibility

Most business owners find out how last month went when their accountant files the return. Our clients see it in a dashboard. When a Flathead Valley hospitality client needed a line of credit in 30 days, we had 12 months of clean, lender-ready financials ready to submit. They got approved.

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Ownership-Ready Financials

When you're ready to sell, raise capital, or bring on a partner, your books tell the story. We've helped clients clean up years of commingled expenses, restructure entity ownership, and produce the financial narrative that makes a transaction possible — not just a tax return that checks a box.

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Work Built Before AI Existed

The operating systems we built for clients in trucking, distilling, and construction — revenue-per-mile dashboards, batch cost tracking, rate negotiation calculators — were built by hand, from deep industry knowledge. That methodology doesn't change. The tools we use to build it faster now do.

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Transparent Pricing, No Surprises

We tell you what things cost before we start. Our engagements are scoped, priced, and documented. If scope changes, we tell you. No surprise invoices at year-end, no billing for every email. Clients who've worked with large firms tell us this alone is worth the switch.

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Held Accountable to Results

We don't disappear after onboarding. Monthly calls, quarterly reviews, and annual strategy sessions are built into every engagement above bookkeeping. If your cash flow forecast was off by more than 10%, we want to know why — and we'll tell you before you ask.

Each principle builds on the last — creating a comprehensive framework that transforms financial chaos into scalable, strategic control.

Want the Full Story?

Why We're Different — In Detail

The BP trading desk, Carrie's family business background, the specific proof points, and the philosophy that separates 406 from every other firm. It's all on one page.

Exit & Transition Readiness

Built to Run Without You.
Valued for What It's Worth.

Carrie grew up in a family that acquired underperforming businesses, fixed their operations and financials, and sold them at a profit. That background shapes how 406 approaches every engagement — we build financial infrastructure that makes a business more valuable, not just more compliant.

Whether you're 2 years or 10 years from an exit, the work you do today determines what your business is worth when you're ready to sell, transition, or step back. Clean books, documented systems, and a business that runs without you in every meeting are the three things that move valuation multiples.

Financial statements that survive due diligence
Owner compensation structured for maximum after-tax proceeds
Systems and documentation that reduce key-person dependency
Valuation modeling to understand your current and target multiple
Entity structure optimized for sale or transition

The Cost of Not Being Ready

Businesses that are not exit-ready often pay for it through lower offers, higher perceived risk, and avoidable tax leakage.

Messy books

Buyers perceive higher risk and adjust offers accordingly

Owner dependency

Reduces perceived business value and transferability

Wrong entity structure

Can result in avoidable tax leakage on proceeds

No documented systems

Extends due diligence and increases deal risk

We start building exit-ready infrastructure from day one — not six months before you want to sell.

Let's Build Something Extraordinary Together

Whether you're stabilizing your foundation or preparing for acquisition, the next step is a conversation about where you are and where you want to be.