Lou Mitts

Lou Mitts, CPA, has over 40 years of public accounting experience providing tax services to clients, especially high-net-worth individuals and those involved in health and wellness, food and beverage, nonprofit, manufacturing and distribution and real estate. He also has deep expertise in middle-market company taxes and accounting, banking and business growth.

He enjoys helping companies create a team with their attorney, banker and CPA to leverage the groups expertise to help the company achieve their financial and business goals.

Prior to joining GHJ in 2022, Lou owned and operated San Jose-based Orlando, Mitts, Moore and Company before it merged into GHJ. There he developed his passion for teaching business owners how the balance sheet and profit and loss reports show how a company is performing. He has seen that more revenue does not always mean more bottom-line profit. Lou believes that business owners do not need to be accountants, but they need to understand how the key relationships interact and what bankers or other third parties look for in the financial statements.