Accounting Services:
For a growing business that needs bank financing, a financial statement audit is a critical part of that process. Other CPA firms can certainly conduct a technically correct audit of your financials. Our approach is to go beyond that and tell you what your financial statements are saying about your business, what numbers you should be monitoring, and where your risks and opportunities lie. In addition to bank financing, financial statement audits can also be required by capital investors, for the purchase or sale of a business, and by contributors, managers, and boards of directors. Depending on your requirements, we offer four different levels of financial statement assurance:

• An audit provides the highest level of financial assurance in that it requires outside confirmation of information and testing of transactions.
• A review provides limited assurance, and includes analytical procedures and inquiries as well as industry-wide comparisons.
• A compilation consists of compiling the financial information into a financial statement format. We don't perform verifications or offer assurance or opinions on the information contained in the financial statements.
• An agreed-upon procedure looks at only specific pieces of a financial statement or control system and is usually the result of a request by a bank or funding source or the board to gather specific information on a particular aspect of the business.

Specialty Audits:
Not-For-Profit Audits: Most funding sources and boards of directors require annual audits. We serve over 50 non-profits ranging from trade associations, public and private foundations, health and welfare entities, religious organizations, private schools and country clubs.

Benefit Plan Audits: We provide government-required benefit plan audits for businesses with 100 or more employees. Although often thought of as routine, government-required audits, unintentional oversights in the routine administration of a benefit plan could create serious tax liabilities for the plan sponsor or fiduciary liabilities for the plan trustees. We can pinpoint problem areas for you and arrange for immediate solutions.

Tax Services:
Simply put, our focus is to reduce or defer your tax liabilities and uncover all potential tax advantages applicable to your unique situation. We strategize, plan, and use the most current technology to monitor the constantly changing tax regulations. We hire the best and the brightest, and truly believe that we have turned "defining and applying the language and applications of tax laws" into a fine art form.

Tax Returns
Naturally, we prepare tax returns for businesses, not-for-profit organizations, individuals, estates, trusts, partnerships, and corporations. Our practice also includes tax planning and consulting, which provides you with a fully integrated package of services.

High Net Worth Individuals
We place special emphasis on the tax, business, and investment structuring aspects for current or potential high net worth individuals.

Income Tax Planning
We apply the fine points of the tax laws to Federal and state income tax planning and structuring for individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. We also believe that tax planning is absolutely critical for the growth of a business. If you are just starting out, we can advise you on the different forms of ownership and the related tax consequences. If you have been around for awhile, we can help you with year-end tax planning, as well as evaluating the tax consequences of certain transactions.

State and Local Taxes
We take a revolutionary approach to Kansas and Missouri State business, sales, use, and property taxes, as well as multi-state income taxes. We identify large state and local tax issues and potential areas of state tax exposure, as well as represent taxpayers at all levels before the Department of Revenue.

Litigation Services
Tax and financial issues are often what make legal disputes so complex. We can assist you in developing and negotiating strategies for all types of legal disputes including divorce, employment contracts and business disputes. We can also help you evaluate the potential economic effects of settlement proposals.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Are you buying or selling a business? We advise buyers and sellers in taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions. We also perform due diligence, looking for business risks and exposure.

Tax Audit Representation
With years of experience in this arena, we will happily represent you before Federal, state, and local tax authorities.

Consulting Services:
The traditional compliance services, preparing tax returns and auditing financial statements, are an important, integral part of our business. However, in order to ensure that our clients are completely well-served, we go beyond the traditional services and consult with our clients as business advisors, bringing resources and skills to help them grow their businesses. All sides of a business—operations, sales and marketing, management, finance and accounting—must work together in order for it to be truly successful. Some of the specific areas where we can help are: strategic, financial, succession, tax, and estate planning, operations and inventory analysis, mergers and acquisitions, state and local taxes, international business transactions, real estate transactions, technology planning, and the special concerns for high net worth individuals.