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 Aurora, IL. 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.
Steph’s Books – Aurora, IL #
Website: https://stephsbooks.com
Phone: (815) 271-5646
Steph’s Books is an outsourced bookkeeping firm that serves businesses in Aurora, Illinois and the surrounding western suburbs. According to its website, the firm is headquartered in McHenry, Illinois, and it works with clients remotely through QuickBooks Online and secure cloud tools rather than from a local Aurora office. The firm’s address is listed as 4318 W Crystal Lake Rd, Suite J, McHenry, IL 60050, and the website states that its cloud-based approach serves clients across the country. Aurora is listed among the communities the firm serves.
The firm focuses on outsourced bookkeeping for professional services firms and growing businesses. Its website states that it has more than 25 years of experience, has served over 300 clients, and that its founder, Stephanie, holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and is a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor. The firm describes delivering accurate monthly financials, with bank and credit card accounts reconciled monthly and financial statements such as the profit and loss statement, balance sheet, and cash flow report delivered each month.
The firm’s services include monthly bookkeeping with transaction classification and financial statements, bank reconciliation, payroll processing with tax filings, direct deposit, and year-end W-2s, accounts receivable and payable management covering invoicing, payment tracking, vendor bill entry, and vendor payments, and catch-up bookkeeping for businesses that are months or years behind. The website states that catch-up work brings books current in roughly two to six weeks. The firm also offers QuickBooks Online setup and training, and it prepares tax-ready year-end packages for a client’s CPA, noting that personal returns start at $150 and business returns at $250. The firm describes itself as preparing financials for filing rather than acting as the primary filing tax preparer.
Steph’s Books describes serving several industries. These include professional services such as law firms, consulting companies, and marketing agencies; property management; technology companies; and small businesses. The website lists contractors among the clients it works with, including construction, HVAC, and home services companies, which supports a home-service and trades focus. For law firms, the firm references IOLTA trust account compliance, matter-based revenue tracking, and partner distribution reporting, and for property management it references per-property income and expense tracking, owner statements and distributions, and maintenance cost categorization.
The firm presents its outsourced model as a cost comparison against doing bookkeeping in-house. Its website states that hiring an in-house bookkeeper can cost $4,000 to $6,000 or more per month, while its own services are presented in a range starting lower, and it describes savings of 40 to 60 percent compared with hiring in-house. The website notes that the firm serves professional services firms with roughly $1 million to $10 million in revenue and emphasizes timely monthly closes and full visibility into the profit and loss statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
The firm outlines a three-step process: a free assessment with a custom quote in about 60 seconds, onboarding within roughly two weeks that includes connecting to a client’s QuickBooks, cleaning up any backlog, and configuring the chart of accounts, and then ongoing monthly closes with financial reports delivered. The website lists a broad set of areas served that includes Chicago, Naperville, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, and many other communities in the region.
The website describes the problems the firm aims to solve for small business owners, including accounting system inefficiencies such as migrating from spreadsheets to QuickBooks, cash flow issues tied to regular client billing, questions of profitability and fraud risk, and limited internal capacity when a business is between employees or cannot justify a full-time hire. The firm states that it enters transactions while the business owner approves and pays them, an arrangement it presents as a control measure. It indicates that its services are designed to free owners from data entry and report generation so they can focus on their core business.
Although it is based in McHenry, Steph’s Books presents itself as serving Aurora businesses and the western suburbs through its remote, cloud-based model. Prospective clients can request a quote or a free assessment through the website or by phone at (815) 271-5646. The firm’s listed hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central time.
Accounting Freedom – Aurora, IL #
Website: https://www.accountingfreedom.com
Phone: 847.949.8373
Contractors and the construction trades sit at the center of how Accounting Freedom presents itself, and the firm devotes a dedicated page to that audience. According to its website, the firm has served Illinois and Wisconsin contractors since 1981 and frames itself as a back-office partner that handles accounting, tax, and payroll so owners can stay focused on the work. The site lays out problems it says contractors regularly run into: accountants who surface only at tax time, tax planning that arrives after a major equipment purchase rather than before it, job costing treated as guesswork, and construction payroll complicated by field workers, overtime, subcontractors, and 1099 reporting.
To address those issues, the firm lists monthly bookkeeping, tax preparation and planning, payroll, cash flow visibility, fixed asset and depreciation tracking, and retirement plans aimed at contracting businesses. The construction professionals it names include general contractors, remodeling contractors, plumbing and HVAC, electrical contractors, roofing and siding, drywall and painting, paving, masonry and concrete, landscaping and snow removal, demolition contractors, engineers and architects, specialty trade contractors, and subcontractors. The site describes evaluating equipment depreciation and Section 179, tracking subcontractor payments and year-end 1099s, planning cash flow for seasonal slow periods, and weighing cash versus accrual methods. It states that QuickBooks Online is its primary platform but that it can also work with construction-specific systems such as Foundation, ComputerEase, and Sage 100 Contractor.
On the question of location, the firm is candid in its own materials, and this listing follows suit. Accounting Freedom operates from two offices: 469 N. Lake Street, Mundelein, Illinois 60060, and 1567 Wisconsin Avenue, Grafton, Wisconsin 53024. No Aurora office is shown. The firm serves clients throughout Illinois and Wisconsin from those two locations, so Aurora-area contractors and businesses would be working with a Mundelein-based Illinois practice rather than a local Aurora office. The directory keeps the Aurora heading, but the source places the firm in Mundelein and Grafton.
The firm’s broader pitch is to put accounting, taxes, payroll, and planning under one roof so business owners are not juggling several providers. Its accounting work covers monthly bookkeeping, bank and credit card reconciliation, general ledger maintenance, and monthly balance sheets and profit and loss statements. Tax preparation and planning extend to business and personal returns, equipment depreciation, Section 179 strategy, and year-round planning. Payroll runs through an affiliated service the website calls Payroll Freedom, and the firm offers retirement and wealth management options including SEP-IRAs, Solo 401(k) plans, and group plans. The website states the firm has served small businesses since 1981, more than 40 years, and describes itself as a local firm rather than a national chain.
Service is structured into three tiers the firm calls Core, Core+, and Core Pro. Every tier, the site says, includes full monthly accounting and business tax, while the higher tiers layer on features such as a monthly financial review call, mid-year and year-end tax planning, retirement and savings advice, owner compensation and entity review, a 90-day cash flow forecast, budget versus actual reporting, a custom KPI dashboard, and an annual performance review. The firm describes itself as QuickBooks Online specialists and publishes a pricing calculator that, it says, produces a customized estimate based on transaction volume, the number of bank and credit card accounts, equipment and fixed assets, and the number of states a business operates in.
Although construction is the headline focus, the firm lists experience in other sectors as well, including medical professionals, restaurants and hospitality, family-owned businesses, manufacturing and distribution, dental practices, professional service firms, and insurance agencies. The website outlines a three-step onboarding process and notes that switching from a previous accountant generally takes about two to four weeks. Because the source locates the firm in Mundelein and Grafton rather than Aurora, prospective Aurora clients should expect to work with the Illinois office. The Illinois office can be reached at 847-949-8373 and the Wisconsin office at 262-375-2440.
Chicago Accounting Professionals – Aurora, IL #
Website: https://www.chicagoaccountingprofessionals.com
Phone: (312) 429-5975
A dedicated construction page is one of the more distinctive features of this firm’s website, and it signals a practice that is comfortable working with contractors and the building trades. Chicago Accounting Professionals, listed on its site under the additional name BASCO Accounting LLC, states that the construction industry faces a unique set of challenges, among them insurance and bonding requirements, labor issues, and a highly competitive bidding process that varies from one contract to the next. The site indicates that the firm works with construction management companies, general contractors, subcontractors, residential developers, and businesses in construction-related trades, and that it stays current on tax law changes affecting the industry.
The construction accounting services the firm lists include financial statement reviews, compilations, and audits; the 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. According to the site, the firm also maintains relationships with third-party professionals such as real estate professionals, attorneys, and bankers, and helps prepare the financial documents contractors need to obtain financing from creditors, banks, suppliers, and bonding companies. Dentists are listed as another industry the firm serves.
It is worth being clear about location. The website identifies the firm as a full-service accounting, bookkeeping, and tax firm operating from 1121 W. Belmont Ave, Suite 1, Chicago, IL 60657. No Aurora office is shown. Aurora-area clients, including contractors and trade businesses in the area, would be served from that Belmont Avenue location rather than from an office within Aurora itself. The directory entry keeps the Aurora city heading, but the firm’s own materials place its base in Chicago.
On the business side, the firm lists bookkeeping services, small business accounting, cash flow management, business advisory services, business valuation, internal controls, new business formation, part-time CFO services, payroll, payroll tax problems, strategic business planning, and succession planning. For individuals, its offerings cover estate and trust tax services, estate planning, elder care, individual tax preparation, personal financial planning, and retirement planning. Taken together, these point to ongoing recordkeeping and reporting support as well as one-time filings.
Tax matters form a large part of what the firm offers. Its listed tax services run from tax preparation and tax planning to a broad set of tax-problem resolution areas: IRS audit representation, non-filed tax returns, back taxes owed, payroll tax problems, IRS liens, IRS levies, IRS wage garnishment, IRS seizures, IRS payment plans, offers in compromise, tax relief, bankruptcy, and innocent spouse relief. Expatriate tax services are listed as well. The firm also maintains a tax center with tools that include refund tracking, tax due dates, tax rates, IRS and state tax forms, and a record retention guide.
QuickBooks support rounds out the technology side of the practice. The firm lists QuickBooks setup, training, and a QuickTune-up, together with informational pages under headings such as Why QuickBooks and Buy QuickBooks and Save. It states that its client portal protects users with what it describes as 14 layers of security, and it offers a secure file transfer tool for sending documents. The site additionally publishes financial calculators, including a 1040 tax calculator, along with guides on business strategies, investment strategies, life events, and tax strategies for both business owners and individuals, plus a frequently asked questions section, a blog, and COVID-19 resources for taxpayers. About, Our Values, and employment pages round out the site.
The firm characterizes itself as affordable, experienced, and friendly, and it offers a free initial consultation, framing its work as helping clients secure a sound financial future. A monthly newsletter is offered for clients who want timely articles on financial topics. Because the source places the office in Chicago rather than Aurora, prospective Aurora clients should expect remote and Chicago-based service. The firm can be reached at (312) 429-5975 or through the contact details on its website, which also list a fax number and an email address for general inquiries.
DuPage Tax Solutions – Aurora, IL #
Website: https://dp-tax.com
Phone: (630) 909 9700
Construction is one of the clearest specialties on DuPage Tax Solutions’ website, and it points to a strong contractor and trades orientation. The site states that the firm specializes in tax, accounting, and advisory services for construction businesses nationwide and that it helps contractors, builders, and construction firms manage cash flow, job costing, and tax compliance. The construction clients it names include general contractors, subcontractors and trade contractors in fields such as electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and concrete, residential builders and remodelers, commercial construction firms, owner-operators and small construction businesses, and multi-state construction companies.
For those clients, the firm describes putting job-level tracking and reporting in place so owners can see profitability by project, phase, and crew, paired with cash flow forecasting meant to anticipate shortfalls driven by delayed payments, retainage, and uneven billing cycles. It states that it manages payroll accuracy, worker classification, and 1099 reporting, and that it applies proactive tax strategies such as depreciation planning and Section 179 optimization for equipment purchases. The website notes that the firm primarily uses QuickBooks Online and can assist with setup, cleanup, and optimization, and that it handles multistate tax filings, payroll, and compliance for contractors operating across several states.
A word on where the firm actually sits is in order, since the directory files this entry under Aurora. The website describes a family-owned, fully online practice based in Naperville, Illinois, with a mailing address of 1552 Illinois Rte 59 #1037, Naperville, IL 60564, and it shows no Aurora office. Its remote-first model lets clients in all 50 states upload, review, and sign documents through an encrypted online portal, with licensed professionals handling the work and no in-person meetings required. The site says it serves individuals and small businesses across the Chicago metropolitan area, including DuPage, Cook, Will, and Lake counties, as well as clients nationwide. Aurora-area clients would be served through this online model rather than from a local Aurora office.
The firm describes its method as advisory-led, blending proactive tax planning, accurate accounting, and ongoing guidance. It says its professionals are Harvard-trained and backed by more than 30 years of tax and accounting experience, and that the goal is to help clients make tax decisions across the year rather than only at filing time. The source states that, on average, its business clients increase take-home profit by over 14% within a single year, a figure the firm presents as a measure of its results.
Service offerings split between individuals and businesses. For individuals, the firm lists personal tax planning and online tax preparation, multi-state and complex returns, IRS representation and tax resolution, and retirement and income planning support. For businesses, it lists proactive tax planning and advisory, tax-ready bookkeeping and accounting, business structuring and entity planning, and ongoing attention to cash flow, profitability, and compliance, with accounting and bookkeeping delivered fully online. The firm describes an accuracy guarantee and states that it handles IRS and state notices at no additional cost for tax returns it has prepared.
Outside of construction, the industries the firm lists include real estate, healthcare, veterinary, manufacturing, and logistics, and the website states that it works with many other industries nationwide as well. On pricing, the firm offers business service plans, a starter plan, and tax preparation pricing, and it stresses transparent, upfront pricing without hidden fees. The site provides resources for small businesses, real estate, and individuals, along with a client portal and links to outside agencies such as the IRS, the Small Business Administration, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Because the source bases the firm in Naperville rather than Aurora, prospective Aurora clients should expect online service from the Naperville practice. The website lists business hours and invites prospective clients to schedule a free consultation by phone at (630) 909 9700 or through its online contact options.