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 Overland Park, KS. 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.
Boan, Connealy & Houlehan LLC #
Website: https://www.bchcpas.com
Phone: (913) 491-9178
Boan, Connealy & Houlehan LLC is an accounting firm located in Overland Park, Kansas. Its office is at 13220 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 100, Overland Park, KS 66213, and the firm serves clients in Overland Park and the surrounding area. According to its website, the firm is a full-service accounting practice licensed in Kansas, and it describes itself as affordable, experienced, and friendly. The firm offers a free consultation to prospective clients.
The website organizes the firm’s work into three broad areas: business services, tax services, and services for individuals. For businesses, the firm lists small business accounting and payroll among its core offerings. It also describes audits, reviews, and compilations, cash flow management, and bank financing support. Additional business services noted on the site include forensic accounting, business valuation, strategic business planning, succession planning, new business formation, services for non-profit organizations, and the review and design of internal controls. This combination reflects a practice that supports companies both in day-to-day accounting and in longer-term planning and transition matters.
On the tax side, the firm lists tax preparation and tax planning as central services. It also describes a range of services aimed at resolving tax problems with the Internal Revenue Service. These include IRS audit representation, assistance with non-filed tax returns and back taxes owed, and help with payroll tax problems. The website further lists work related to IRS liens, levies, wage garnishment, and seizures, along with IRS payment plans, offers in compromise, matters connected to bankruptcy, innocent spouse relief, and obtaining a client’s IRS file. This focus on tax resolution indicates that the firm works with clients facing collection and compliance issues in addition to routine tax preparation.
For individuals, the firm describes personal financial planning, estate planning, and elder care services. These offerings are presented alongside the firm’s business and tax work, suggesting that the practice serves both business owners and individual clients, including those planning for retirement, the transfer of assets, or the care needs of older family members.
The website also provides a set of resources for clients and visitors. These include a regularly updated newsletter, presented as both a current monthly edition and an archive of previous issues, and guides covering life events, business strategies, investment strategies, and tax strategies for both business owners and individuals, along with a frequently asked questions section. The firm maintains 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. Other resources noted on the site include financial calculators, a client portal, a secure file transfer feature for sending documents to the firm, a set of internet links, and a local news and weather feature. The firm also provides an online payment option for clients.
The firm’s website states that the practice is licensed in Kansas and emphasizes a personal, accessible approach to client service. The site references the firm’s partners through an area dedicated to meeting the partners and a statement of the firm’s values, though the specific names and biographical details are not set out in the available source text. The firm provides a phone number and a fax line, listed as (913) 491-9198, for client contact, and it invites prospective clients to request a free consultation through its contact options.
Based on the information presented on its website, Boan, Connealy & Houlehan LLC functions as a general accounting firm for the Overland Park area, combining small business accounting, payroll, and audit and compilation work with a substantial tax practice that extends from routine preparation and planning into the resolution of IRS problems, along with individual planning services such as estate planning and elder care.
Mize CPAs #
Website: https://www.mizecpas.com
Phone: 1-800-234-5573
Mize CPAs, Inc. is a full-service accounting firm with offices in Overland Park, Kansas, and Topeka, Kansas. Its website identifies Overland Park as one of its two locations, and the firm serves clients in Overland Park and the surrounding area from that office. The firm states that it has joined Aprio, which it describes as the 24th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the United States, and it presents its work as part of that larger organization.
According to its website, Mize CPAs provides a broad set of services that includes tax preparation and planning, audit, financial reporting, financial planning, payroll services, accounts payable, and business advisory services. The firm also lists state and local tax work, employee benefit plan audits, employee engagement, information technology services, beneficial ownership information reporting, and Work Opportunity Tax Credit management. This range reflects a practice built to handle both compliance requirements and ongoing advisory relationships for businesses and individuals.
Construction is one of the industries the firm highlights, and its construction page identifies the firm as working in both Topeka and Overland Park. The website states that the firm’s construction accountants work with specialty contractors, utility contractors, general contractors, home builders, and other construction professionals. It describes a focus on the risk management priorities that contractors face and notes that the firm helps clients stay current on changing IRS regulations that can affect a construction audit so that owners can remain focused on their operations.
The firm outlines several ways it supports construction clients. It describes reviewing depreciation schedules and financial statements to identify opportunities to reduce taxes and improve cash flow, and it notes the importance of understanding job cost systems in order to identify issues that affect job profitability and financial statements. The website also describes succession planning intended to lower potential estate taxes as owners pass a business to the next generation, work to identify weaknesses in internal control processes that could affect company assets, and the preparation and presentation of financial statements. The firm states that it develops communications with bonding agents to help support a client’s bonding capacity and that it works with lenders on a client’s behalf. It notes involvement with industry organizations including 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 current on generally accepted accounting principles reporting requirements and revenue recognition.
Beyond construction, the firm lists industry experience that includes auto dealerships, closely held businesses, financial institutions, manufacturing, not-for-profit organizations, and telecommunications. The website also describes a significant focus on the restaurant sector, including accounting and consulting services for McDonald’s owner operators, quick service restaurants, and casual and formal dining, along with related services such as Restaurant365 accounting support. The firm states that it serves McDonald’s owners nationwide.
The firm describes its move to join Aprio as one that amplifies its strengths in tax, audit, client accounting, and payroll services while expanding capabilities in the construction and manufacturing industries. It states that the combination is intended to support clients across the Midwest, the United States, and globally, and it references technology-enabled business solutions and investments in artificial intelligence as part of that delivery. The firm uses promotional language in describing itself, including a reference to being a premier provider of these services; that characterization comes from the firm’s own website rather than an independent source.
Mize CPAs maintains resources for clients and prospective clients, including an insights blog, newsletters, business and personal records retention guides, a tax planning guide, and a podcast. For construction companies and other businesses based in Overland Park and the nearby area, the firm offers a local office combined with a service range that spans tax, audit, accounting, payroll, and industry-specific advisory work.
Apparatus Contractor Services #
Website: https://www.apparatusteam.com
A construction company in Overland Park, Kansas, that engages Apparatus Contractor Services, LLC works with a firm that has no office in the city and none anywhere else that it markets locally. The firm presents itself on its website as a United States based outsourced finance practice that takes on construction clients across the country and delivers everything remotely, so any Overland Park relationship would be handled at a distance rather than in person. Its stated specialty is narrow on purpose: construction accounting is described as the only work the firm accepts.
How a client gets started is set out plainly on the site. After a signed agreement, the firm says most engagements begin within two to five business days, and the steps it lists are choosing a start date, signing a month to month services agreement, paying a first invoice that combines an enrollment fee with the first month of service, and attending an orientation meeting. From there, the firm describes a three-phase model. The opening phase, covering roughly the first three months, is where the firm says it assumes bookkeeping, cleans and restructures the books, stands up project level job costing, and applies revenue recognition to build a working foundation. A middle phase then brings the construction management system, the accounting platform, and the firm’s workflows into alignment for real-time reporting. The final phase is ongoing operation paired with continued advisory work, including profitability reviews, dashboards, cash forecasting, and capital planning.
The financial system itself runs on one of two Intuit products. According to the firm, QuickBooks Online is suited to single-entity and simpler multi-entity construction companies, while the Intuit Enterprise Suite is positioned for businesses carrying multi-entity complexity or heavier reporting demands. The firm notes that Intuit released a Construction Edition for the Intuit Enterprise Suite in February 2026, and it says it expects to add Sage Intacct Construction support in late 2026 for companies whose complexity outgrows both Intuit options. Whichever platform is used, engagements are described as fixed fee and month to month.
On the substance of the work, the firm lists job level cost accounting, revenue recognition compliant with generally accepted accounting principles using methods such as completed contract and percentage of completion, and project costing built from the start on the National Association of Home Builders chart of accounts. Automation is said to cover accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing with AIA G702 and G703 forms, retainage tracking, payroll, draws, lien waivers, and retention. Integration with construction management platforms, named as Buildertrend, JobTread, and Procore, sits alongside chief financial officer level advisory that the firm describes in terms of cash forecasting, key performance indicator dashboards, pricing analysis, and board-ready reporting. The firm states that every team member holds QuickBooks ProAdvisor certification and that construction-specific expertise is required before anyone works with clients.
The website frames the firm’s audience by size and stage. It says it serves residential and commercial builders, remodelers, developers, and specialty contractors with annual revenue from $2 million to more than $50 million, sorted into three groups, each matched to a service tier: emerging companies at $2 million to $8 million, scaling businesses at $6 million to $25 million, and expanding enterprises at $20 million to more than $50 million. As evidence of experience, the firm states on its site that it was founded more than a decade ago, has served more than 300 construction clients, and supports clients accounting for more than $500 million in active revenues; these are figures the firm publishes about itself.
The site also carries a set of client comments from builders, general contractors, remodelers, and an electrical contractor, with several mentioning named staff members. Those remarks are presented as testimonials offered by the clients. For an Overland Park construction business, then, what Apparatus offers is a remote, construction-only accounting and advisory arrangement organized around the Intuit platforms and the contractor’s construction management software, rather than a local accounting office.
MarksNelson Advisors #
Website: https://www.mnadvisors.com
Phone: (816) 743-7700
MarksNelson Advisors is an accounting and consulting practice with an office in Overland Park, Kansas. Its website lists the office address as 6800 W 115th St, Suite 3511, Overland Park, KS 66211, placing the firm within the Overland Park area it serves. The website identifies the practice as MarksNelson, a Springline company, and explains that MarksNelson is the brand name under which MarksNelson LLC and MarksNelson Advisory, LLC provide professional services. According to the firm’s disclosure, MarksNelson LLC is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services, while MarksNelson Advisory, LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services and are not licensed CPA firms.
The firm describes a wide range of services on its website. These include accounting, assurance, tax, technology consulting, analytics and automation, valuation, financial due diligence, litigation and forensic accounting, succession planning, and wealth advisory services offered through MN Wealth Advisors. The website also details economic development and incentives work, including Kansas and Missouri incentive programs covering income tax credits, payroll tax withholding refunds, property tax abatement, sales tax exemptions, and training credits, along with services related to opportunity zones, historic tax credits, low income housing tax credits, and new market tax credits.
Construction is one of the industries the firm highlights. Its construction page states that contractors deal with risk every day and that the industry is fast paced and complex, with fluctuations in material costs, weather that can stop work, a tight surety market, staffing challenges, and increased scrutiny of financial reporting. The firm describes assisting construction clients with strategic business planning, accounting, and tax and financial strategies intended to help them compete, limit tax liability, and increase cash flow. It states that 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.
The construction services the firm 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 also notes that, in addition to its involvement with industry associations, it maintains regular contact with other construction professionals such as surety and insurance professionals, bankers, and attorneys, which it presents as a way to help clients make useful connections.
On the accounting side more generally, the website describes services that range from full-service accounting to outsourced chief financial officer support, along with controller functions, reports and compilations, technology systems, and security controls and oversight. The firm frames these offerings as a response to common business challenges such as a lack of timely accounting information, the departure of accounting personnel, problems related to growth, and unexpected difficulties. It also names several team members associated with its accounting and construction work, including partners and managers within MarksNelson Advisory, LLC.
The firm uses promotional language in parts of its site, describing itself as a thought leader in the construction sector and characterizing its team as trusted partners; these descriptions come from the firm’s own website. Other industries the firm serves include real estate, insurance, manufacturing and distribution, professional firms, and retail. The website states that the firm is a member of the BDO Alliance USA.
For construction companies and other businesses in the Overland Park area, MarksNelson Advisors offers a practice based at its Overland Park office that combines accounting, tax, advisory, and specialized services such as incentives and economic development work. The firm provides a phone number and a fax line, listed as (816) 743-7701, for client contact, and it invites prospective clients to reach out through the contact options on its website.