This page lists bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve home-service and trades businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, and general contracting in Eugene, OR. Each entry summarizes the firm based on its own website, and notes when a firm serves the area remotely rather than from a local office.
Firms listed: 2.
Kernutt Stokes #
Website: https://www.kernuttstokes.com
Phone: (541) 687-1170
Kernutt Stokes is an Oregon-based accounting and business consulting firm that maintains an office in Eugene at 1600 Executive Parkway, Suite 110, Eugene, OR 97401. According to its website, the firm has operated in Oregon for more than 75 years, with copyright dates spanning 1946 through 2026. In addition to its Eugene location, the firm lists offices in Bend, Corvallis, and Lake Oswego, positioning it as a multi-office practice serving clients across the state from its Eugene base and other Oregon locations.
The firm offers a broad range of services for businesses and individuals. Its service list includes audit and assurance, tax consulting and compliance, retirement plan services, virtual accounting, risk advisory, employee benefit audit, estate planning, and business consulting. The inclusion of virtual accounting alongside tax compliance and bookkeeping-related functions indicates that the firm supports ongoing financial record-keeping needs as well as periodic tax and assurance work. The firm also references client tools such as a client portal, document upload, a payment portal, and ClientConnect, which suggest a structured approach to handling client documents and communications.
Kernutt Stokes describes a number of industry focus areas on its website. These include agribusiness, beverage, construction, manufacturing, transportation, family-owned businesses, medical and dental, and commercial real estate. The presence of construction and transportation among these industries reflects work with contractors, trades, and other field-based businesses, alongside its work with agricultural, manufacturing, and professional service clients. The firm presents itself as serving family-owned businesses, which often require a combination of tax planning, accounting, and succession-oriented advisory services.
The website states that the firm has been recognized as a Top 50 Accounting Firm in the country and as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon. These are claims the firm makes about itself, and they are presented here as statements attributed to its own materials rather than independent assessments. The firm also notes its participation in the BDO Alliance, an affiliation that connects independent accounting firms with additional resources. The combination of a long operating history, multiple Oregon offices, and alliance membership describes a firm structured to serve a range of client sizes and needs.
On the topic of careers and staffing, the website outlines pathways for campus and recent graduates, experienced staff, and roles in virtual accounting and administration. References to the firm’s culture and its recognition as a workplace appear throughout its materials. While these details relate primarily to recruitment, they also indicate that the firm maintains a team-based structure capable of handling audit, tax, and advisory engagements across its industry segments.
For businesses in the home-service and trades sectors, the construction industry focus is the most directly relevant area of the firm’s stated expertise. Construction accounting commonly involves considerations such as job-related financial reporting, work with sureties and bonding, and compliance matters specific to contractors. Kernutt Stokes lists construction among its core industries, and its audit, assurance, and tax services would generally support contractors and related businesses that require reviewed or compiled financial statements and ongoing tax compliance. The firm’s transportation industry focus may also be relevant to fleet-based and logistics-oriented service businesses.
Clients in Eugene and the surrounding area can reach the Eugene office by telephone at (541) 687-1170. The firm’s other Oregon offices are reachable through separate numbers listed on its website, including locations in Bend, Corvallis, and Lake Oswego. The firm directs prospective and current clients to its contact page and client portal resources for engagement and document handling.
In summary, the Kernutt Stokes Eugene office is part of a multi-location Oregon firm offering audit and assurance, tax compliance and consulting, virtual accounting, retirement plan services, risk advisory, estate planning, and business consulting. Its stated industry experience spans agribusiness, beverage, construction, manufacturing, transportation, family-owned businesses, medical and dental practices, and commercial real estate, with construction and transportation representing the areas most closely aligned with home-service and contractor clients.
Sarah Shaw CPA #
Website: https://sarahshawcpa.com
Phone: (412) 889-3919
Sarah Shaw CPA is a CPA practice that serves construction and real estate clients throughout Oregon. Although this listing appears under the Eugene directory, the firm’s website indicates that it is based in the Portland metro area rather than in Eugene, and it works with clients on a statewide and remote basis. The site lists a service area covering the Portland Metro Area and beyond, including Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland, Tigard, Lake Oswego, McMinnville, Carlton, Clackamas, Wilsonville, Bend, The Dalles, and Pendleton. Clients in the Eugene area would therefore be served as part of this broader Oregon coverage rather than through a local Eugene office.
The practice centers on the construction industry. According to its website, Sarah Shaw works with contractor clients located across Oregon and monitors national and local industry trends to help companies plan ahead. The firm describes a collaborative approach that can involve the full project team, including owners, accounting personnel and staff, estimators, the company’s banker for line of credit purposes, and the surety. This emphasis on working with bankers and sureties reflects the practical financial reporting needs of contractors who pursue bonding and credit.
The firm’s construction-focused services, as listed on the site, include financial statement review and compilation, analysis of tax accounting methods for long-term contracts, tax planning and compliance, job profit fade and gain analysis, consulting to maximize bond capacity, benchmarking and ratio analysis, cash flow planning, debt and equity financing alternatives, entity selection and restructuring, nexus studies, and job costing and overhead rates. The website explains that partnering with a construction-focused CPA can produce financial information with the disclosures and schedules that a surety or banker looks for when evaluating bonding and lines of credit, which the firm states can support faster decisions and higher levels of bonding and credit.
In addition to construction, the practice serves the real estate sector and provides business and corporate tax services. For real estate, the website states that Sarah Shaw works with businesses and individuals of varying sizes, from single-property owners to investors with more complex portfolios. For business and corporate tax, the firm describes helping businesses navigate tax complexity while working to minimize taxes. The site also references review and compilation financial statement services intended to help companies make informed decisions and obtain higher levels of bonding and credit.
The website outlines a structured onboarding process for new clients. The described steps are: requesting a consultation, with a stated response time within 48 hours; an initial discussion of current pain points and the services needed; a request for past and current financial records if the parties are a good fit; a fee proposal, typically quoted as a range; and the signing of an engagement letter. The site notes that fee proposals are generally provided as a range rather than a fixed figure.
Two client testimonials appear on the website. One, attributed to Patrick Koebel of Northwest Irrigation Contractors LLC, describes a multi-year working relationship and year-round financial guidance. Another, attributed to Bonnie Ingham and Carson Benner of Cellar Ridge Construction, describes a partnership-oriented relationship and the firm’s familiarity with the construction industry. These statements are presented as client comments published on the firm’s site rather than as independent verification.
Contact information on the website lists an email address of sarah@sarahshawcpa.com and a telephone number of (412) 889-3919. The site also references a secure document upload feature and an online tax payment option for clients.
In summary, Sarah Shaw CPA is a construction- and real-estate-focused CPA practice serving Oregon contractors and businesses primarily from the Portland metro area on a statewide and remote basis. For Eugene-area construction firms, general contractors, subcontractors, residential developers, and trades businesses, the practice offers construction accounting, financial statement review and compilation, tax planning and compliance, job costing, and bonding-related consulting, delivered remotely rather than from a local Eugene office.