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 Kansas City, MO. 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: 4.
LNS Accounting & Business Consultants #
Website: https://www.lns-consult.com
Phone: (816) 482-2852
LNS Accounting & Business Consultants is an accounting and tax firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, with an office at 12926 North Oakland Avenue. According to its website, the firm helps businesses and individuals in Kansas City, Liberty, and Platte City address their accounting and tax challenges. The firm states that getting to know business owners on an individual level is the way it helps their businesses run smoothly, and it describes its goal as building long-lasting professional relationships founded on responsive communication and reliable service.
The firm divides its work into services for individuals, business services, tax services, and QuickBooks services. On the business side, the listed offerings include small business accounting, bookkeeping services, payroll, part-time CFO services, cash flow management, business advisory services, work for non-profit organizations, and internal controls. The website summarizes its core business support as outsourced CFO services, payroll assistance, bookkeeping, and tax preparation and planning for both businesses and individuals. The firm presents bookkeeping as a way for owners to step back from their books so they can focus on running the business, and it frames payroll services as a means for owners to spend more time on day-to-day operations.
For individuals, the firm lists personal financial planning, retirement planning, elder care, and wealth management. Its tax services cover individual tax preparation, tax preparation for businesses, and tax planning, along with assistance for tax problems such as non-filed tax returns, back taxes owed, payroll tax problems, and obtaining an IRS file. The QuickBooks services include setup, training, answers to questions, and a tune-up for the software, reflecting the firm’s stated aim of helping clients take full advantage of the program’s features.
LNS Accounting & Business Consultants identifies a number of industries it serves, among them construction, dentists, healthcare, hospitality, law firms, manufacturers, and real estate. The firm devotes a dedicated page to the construction industry, where it notes that construction businesses face challenges that many other industries do not, including insurance and bonding requirements, labor issues, and a competitive bidding process that varies from contract to contract. It states that general contractors, subcontractors, residential developers, construction management firms, and businesses in the construction-related trades need an accounting firm that understands their work.
For construction clients, the firm says it stays current on tax law changes affecting the industry and maintains relationships with third-party professionals including real estate professionals, attorneys, and bankers. It describes preparing financial documents needed to obtain financing from creditors, banks, suppliers, and bonding companies. The construction accounting services it lists include financial statements covering reviews, compilations, and audits; review and implementation of financial reporting systems; review of internal project controls; contractor dispute resolution; construction audits; tax return preparation; payroll; and business valuation and succession planning.
The website emphasizes flexibility and budget awareness, stating that the firm’s services are created with various budgets in mind and that it can adjust its offerings to fit different businesses regardless of how much or how little help a client needs. It positions outsourcing the back office as an alternative to keeping a full-time financial professional on the payroll, presenting this as a way for owners to ensure their finances are handled without that ongoing cost.
The firm offers a client portal, a SecureSend file delivery page, a newsletter, and a tax center with tools such as refund tracking, tax due dates, tax rates, IRS tax forms and publications, a record retention guide, and state tax forms. The website mentions a free initial consultation for current and prospective clients. The firm describes itself in third-party style quotations on its site as one of the leading firms in the area and as professional, responsive, and known for quality service. The contact email listed is l.showalter@lns-consult.com, and the site indicates the firm serves the Kansas City area from its North Oakland Avenue location.
MarksNelson Advisors #
Website: https://www.mnadvisors.com
Phone: (816) 743-7700
“Powered by connections” is how MarksNelson Advisors frames itself on its website, where it states that it has been serving colleagues, clients, and community since 1968 and that a client leverages a whole network of industry experts rather than a single point of contact. The practice operates under the brand MarksNelson, a Springline company, and offers accounting, tax, and business advisory work. Its disclosure explains that MarksNelson is the brand under which MarksNelson LLC and MarksNelson Advisory, LLC deliver professional services through an alternative practice structure; MarksNelson LLC is a licensed independent CPA firm providing attest services, while MarksNelson Advisory, LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services and are not licensed CPA firms.
This listing appears in the Kansas City, Missouri directory, and the firm markets construction consulting services in Kansas City, but its stated office sits across the state line. The website gives that address as 6800 W 115th St., Suite 3511, Overland Park, Kansas 66211, on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area. The contact number listed is (816) 743-7700, with a fax line of (816) 743-7701.
The firm’s published service list is extensive. As laid out on the site, it includes tax service, succession planning, technology, business valuation, enterprise resource solutions, assurance solutions, accounting services, litigation, location strategies, economic development, and incentives. The broader navigation widens that further to accounting, AI, analytics and automation, assurance, economic development, enterprise resource solutions, financial due diligence, incentives, insurance forensic accounting, litigation, location strategies, wealth advisory through MN Wealth Advisors, succession planning, tax, technology, and valuation. The website also details state incentive programs for both Kansas and Missouri, including income tax credits, payroll tax withholding refunds, property tax abatement, and sales tax exemptions, along with developer-oriented services such as historic tax credits, low income housing tax credits, new market tax credits, and opportunity zone work.
Among the firm’s named industries are construction, real estate, insurance, and manufacturing and distribution. Its construction page characterizes the field as fast-paced, ever-changing, and complex, pointing to fluctuating material costs, work-stopping weather, a tight surety market, the challenge of finding and keeping good people, and increased scrutiny of financial reporting. The firm states that its accountants and consultants assist construction clients with strategic business planning, accounting, and tax and financial strategies aimed at helping them compete, limit tax liability, and increase cash flow.
The construction services the site lists include accounting services, benchmarking, budgeting, claims and delays consulting, cost audits, forecasting, job costing and contract schedules, lean and process improvement, operations review, software implementation, state licensing, strategic financial planning, strategic reporting, and succession planning. The firm says it works with construction organizations including engineers, architects, general contractors, specialty subcontractors, home builders, utility contractors, and commercial and residential real estate developers and managers, and that it keeps in contact with surety and insurance professionals, bankers, and attorneys to help clients make connections when needed.
The construction page also introduces several team members and their focus areas: Cassie Bott in accounting services and construction; Scott Bruce, a partner working in business, construction, real estate, and tax; Margo Hoegler, a partner covering accounting, bookkeeping, controller services, and other areas; Amanda Kumma-Reeves, a director in assurance and construction; and Terry Staley, a partner spanning business, construction, and tax. The website further references membership in the BDO Alliance USA and a peer review process, and it lists the firm’s published values as commitment, curiosity, excellence, and vigilance. For construction companies and other businesses connected to the Kansas City, Missouri market, MarksNelson Advisors offers this combination of accounting, tax, and advisory services from its Overland Park, Kansas office on the Kansas side of the metro.
Mize CPAs #
Website: https://www.mizecpas.com
Phone: 1-800-234-5573
Mize CPAs is a full-service accounting firm whose website identifies its home offices in Topeka and Overland Park, Kansas. While the firm is listed in this Kansas City, Missouri directory, the source material shows its base is in the Kansas side of the region rather than in Kansas City, Missouri, and its construction page is headed for Topeka and Kansas City. The website states that Mize CPAs, Inc. has joined Aprio, which it describes as the 24th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the United States. According to the site, the combination is meant to amplify Mize’s strengths as a tax, audit, client accounting, and payroll services provider and to expand capabilities in the construction and manufacturing industries.
The firm’s listed services include accounts payable, audit, business advisory services, employee benefit plan audits, employee engagement, financial planning, financial reporting, information technology, payroll services, state and local tax, tax preparation and planning, BOI reporting services, and WOTC management. On the industries side, the website names auto dealerships, closely-held businesses, construction, financial institutions, manufacturing, and not-for-profits, along with a dedicated restaurant group that covers casual and formal dining, McDonald’s accounting and consulting services, quick service restaurants, and telecommunications. The site notes a long-standing commitment to serving the McDonald’s owner and operator community as well as quick service and independent restaurants.
Construction is one of the firm’s emphasized industries. The website states that its construction CPAs work with specialty contractors, utility contractors, and other construction professionals, and that the firm has built relationships with bankers, attorneys, and surety and insurance professionals over the years. It describes itself, in its own voice on that page, as one of the leading construction accounting firms in Topeka and Overland Park, Kansas. The construction services it outlines focus on improving cash flow and reducing taxes by reviewing depreciation schedules and financial statements, understanding how job cost systems work, and identifying issues that affect job profitability and financial statements.
The construction page also describes succession planning support, noting that many owners are retiring and that the firm helps construction clients lower potential estate taxes and pass their business to the next generation. It addresses asset security through internal control processes and the presentation of financial statements, including working with bonding agents to maximize bonding capacity and with lenders to maximize equity. The website mentions involvement with industry organizations such as Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors of America, the Construction Financial Management Association, The Builders’ Association, and the Heavy Constructors Association, and it states that its advisors stay updated on GAAP reporting requirements and revenue recognition. Named construction leadership on the page includes James Hilbert, Stacy (Smith) Randel, and Steve Talken, and the site invites readers to contact James Hilbert or Steve Talken about construction services.
The website includes a client testimonial from Dusty Gary, identified as VP of Wolf Construction, Inc., who states that Mize has been a reliable partner that brings sound advice and practical knowledge to simplify the company’s accounting and tax planning. The firm’s resources section offers an insights blog, business and personal records retention guides, newsletters, a podcast, a tax planning guide, and a tool the site calls Mize Connect. Recent insights highlighted on the site address topics such as inflation-adjusted tax provisions, retirement readiness, and marketplace facilitators and taxes.
The site provides several client and employee tools, including secure email, a client login, an employee portal, and an online bill payment option. The general contact number listed is 1-800-234-5573. Because the firm’s stated offices are in Topeka and Overland Park, Kansas, its presence relative to Kansas City, Missouri reflects regional service from the Kansas side of the metropolitan area rather than a local Kansas City, Missouri office, based on the information in the source.
Valor Business & Tax Services #
Website: https://www.valorbizservices.com
Phone: (816) 656-1142
Valor Business & Tax Services is a Kansas City based firm that provides year-round tax strategy for contractors and established business owners across the Kansas City metro. According to its website, the firm focuses on construction business owners and established owners at roughly $2 million or more in revenue, and it emphasizes proactive planning rather than only preparing returns at filing time. The firm describes its work as helping owners look ahead, pressure-test decisions, and avoid expensive surprises before the year closes.
A central theme of the website is contractor tax strategy. The firm states that at $2 million or more in revenue, tax preparation alone is usually too late, and it positions itself for owners who have outgrown reactive filing. The areas it reviews include entity and S Corp planning, owner salary and distribution review, equipment, truck, and depreciation timing, estimated tax and cash reserve planning, questions involving 1099s, subcontractors, and payroll tax, and year-end decisions about project and income timing. The firm explains that construction income rarely behaves like a simple service business, noting that job timing, retainage, seasonality, financing, and equipment purchases all affect tax strategy, so the advice must match how the company earns and spends money.
The website outlines a planning cadence intended to give owners useful decisions throughout the year. It describes quarterly tax position reviews covering profit, owner pay, estimates, payroll, and cash needs while decisions can still be made; decision support before large moves such as equipment, vehicles, financing, hiring, entity questions, and subcontractor issues; and year-end planning meant to close the year with clearer records and cleaner estimates rather than a last-minute scramble. The firm stresses that major equipment, vehicles, financed machinery, and year-end purchases should be reviewed before paperwork is signed so the deduction, cash flow, and following year’s tax picture all make sense.
Valor lists a set of core services built around the tax questions it says cost contractors money. These include contractor tax strategy focused on jobs, crews, equipment, owner pay, subs, and cash flow; construction tax services covering tax preparation and advisory for construction companies; construction bookkeeping aimed at producing cleaner books for job costs, equipment, subcontractors, and tax-ready numbers; tax planning for homebuilders and remodelers around project timing, materials, subs, draws, and owner decisions; advisory for established business owners at the $2 million or more level; and a Kansas City tax strategy service described as local planning for contractors and business owners across the metro.
The firm’s resources section includes articles addressing common contractor questions, such as what contractors should review before year-end for tax planning, whether a construction business should be an S Corp, whether contractors should buy equipment before year-end for Section 179, and the difference between tax preparation and tax strategy. The website explains that tax preparation reports what happened while tax strategy helps owners make better decisions before tax season and year-end deadlines. It also notes that not every contractor needs an S Corp, stating that the decision depends on profit, reasonable compensation, payroll requirements, administrative cost, and the owner’s goals, and should be reviewed before making the election.
The website describes a strong-fit client as a contractor doing meaningful revenue who is dealing with owner pay, equipment, subcontractors, payroll, and tax questions that need proactive review. The firm indicates that it works with clients virtually, offering tax strategy with secure document exchange. The contact information on the site lists the phone number (816) 656-1142 and the email dan@valorbizservices.com, with the location given as the Kansas City metro. The site frames its central offering as a strategy call where a prospective client can describe the business they own, where complexity is showing up, and what they need to make cleaner decisions during the year.