Phil Villegas, Automotive Dealerships Division
Head of Dealership Consultancy
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Email: pvillegas@mbafcpa.com
Phil Villegas is Head of Dealership Consultancy at Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra, LLP, providing consulting services to the firm’s more than 250 dealership clients. With over 14 years experience working in the retail automotive industry, Phil has managed and performed hundreds of dealership operational field visits, focusing on areas such as due diligence, buy/sells, internal controls, financial viability, fraud, special finance, and systems integration.
Phil’s specialty is consulting with automotive dealership clients regarding expansion. Whether it is optimizing operations, evaluating M&A opportunities, determining organizational structure, creating financial forecasts, assisting in raising capital or tackling manufacturer related issues, Phil’s in depth experience and knowledge provides a valued resource to our clients of every size and complexity.
Phil also serves as a valuable resource to MBAF’s Litigation Support department, assisting in numerous cases regarding business valuation matters, lost profits, calculation of business damages, franchise rights, wrongful employee discharge and purported fraud.
His hands-on working knowledge of dealership operations and accounting serves as a valuable resource to MBAF clients, allowing him to not only identify issues, but also to suggest solutions. In addition, Phil has been a speaker at the NADA and NAMAD conventions, and is a guest columnist with Professional Auto News, Driving Profits, F&I Management Magazine, Dealer Marketing Magazine and has been featured in Automotive News, AutoExec and DealersEdge.
Professionally, Phil has “grown-up” in the dealership environment.  The son of a car mechanic and repair shop owner, Phil knows first hand the value of hard work, customer satisfaction, delivering value and entrepreneurship. Following a tour of duty in Desert Storm with the United States Marine Corps, Phil started working as a file clerk in a dealership while attending the University of South Florida.
Through his rapid advancement, his role grew to include responsibility for the internal control environment of more than 30 dealerships with the nation’s largest automotive retailer, AutoNation. While at the Northwest District, he was a key part in taking the market platform from worst to first in overall performance. For the past 5 years, Phil has been an integral component of MBAF’s Auto Dealership Division’s growth.
MBAF is independently ranked as the largest Florida-based CPA firm in the state and one of the top 50 in the nation.
MBAF's hallmark is the hands-on service approach of its professional team of CPAs and consultants based on ample business experience, broad industry knowledge and latest technical expertise.
MBAF provides a full range of services in audit, tax & accounting, litigation support & business valuation, and technology consulting .
Clients served include private and public corporate entities, entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and wealthy individuals and families.
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