DNEP Accounting Services

Running a Successful Business Requires Financial Clarity

Whether you’re launching your first venture or growing an established business, understanding your finances is essential. DNEP provides Detroit entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools, and personalized support needed to take control of your business finances and make confident decisions for growth.

Our approach is comprehensive, flexible, patient and responsive: We meet you where you are—whether you need foundational financial education, one-on-one guidance with specific challenges, connections to capital and community resources, or tools you can use on your own anytime.

Our commitment is to Detroit: Every service is designed with Detroit’s entrepreneurial community in mind, delivered on site, in person at Detroit neighborhood locations.

Step 1: Build Your Financial Foundation with 🎓CFO Boot Camp

CFO Boot Camp is DNEP’s signature workshop series that gives you the financial knowledge and confidence of a Chief Financial Officer—no accounting degree required. Through interactive, hands-on sessions, you’ll learn to set up accounting systems, read and interpret financial statements, create budgets, understand key metrics, and prepare financials for funding applications.

What You’ll Gain:

• Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting terminology 
• Ability to read and interpret P&L statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports
• Skills to create budgets and financial forecasts
• Understanding of financial metrics that drive business decisions
• Preparation strategies for loan and grant applications
• Cash flow management techniques

Workshop Format:

• Multi-session series held in Detroit neighborhoods
• Small group setting for personalized attention
• Interactive learning with real business scenarios
• Worksheets and tools you can use immediately
• Led by experienced accounting professionals and accounting students at the University of Michigan

Appointments offered in-person every Friday in Detroit neighborhoods: schedule an appointment by clicking on the location that works best for you!

Jefferson East, Inc.‘s Neighborhood Resource Hub (Jefferson Chalmers – East Side), 14300 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI 48215 – BOOK ON JEI CALENDAR

Live6 Alliance, 7426 W. McNichols Rd, Detroit, MI 48221 – BOOK ON LIVE6 CALENDAR

Invest Detroit, Jefferson Hub, 950 Selden Ave., Detroit (Complete this Registration Form to request an invitation from Invest Detroit team)

Referrals for bookkeepers and CPAs in Detroit:

List of bookkeepers and accountants that work with Detroit small businesses.