Strawberry Hill is one of Kansas City’s oldest neighborhoods, settled by immigrants who arrived with almost nothing and built something lasting anyway.
Croatian, Slovenian, and Serbian families put down roots on that bluff above the river and opened the kind of businesses that outlive their founders: butcher shops, bakeries, corner grocers, places still run by the third and fourth generation today.
That’s exactly who we built this firm for. Not corporations. Owners who show up, work hard, and build something meant to last well beyond them.
The name is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Something most CPA firms and AI don’t offer.
If you take one idea from this site, take this one.
Built for compliance
File the return, close the books, meet the deadline. Essential work, and backward-looking by design.
Fast, but not accountable
Great at sorting and summarizing. It doesn’t know your family, your goals, or what a buyer would ask, and no one stands behind its answer.
Forward-looking, with a person
Forecasting, budgeting, and scenario planning, read the way a lender or buyer would, by someone who knows your business.
That’s the gap this firm is built to close.
Investment banking and Big 4 accounting, applied where it’s rarely available.
Strawberry Hill was founded on a background in investment banking and Big 4 public accounting, brought to a segment of business that has been underserved by that level of expertise. Investment banking trains you to build models and evaluate a business the way a lender or buyer would. Big 4 accounting trains rigor and documentation. Few advisors serving founder-led businesses carry both.
Owners, not corporations.
Our clients are founder-led and family-owned businesses across the Midwest. What they share isn’t size or industry: the owner is close to the business, decisions carry personal as well as financial weight, and there is no internal finance team to lean on. Our practice is built around the questions those owners actually ask.
How we work.
One point of contact
You are not routed through a call center or handed between staff members. The person who understands your business is the person you speak with.
Plain language, without exception
If a concept cannot be explained in terms that make sense to you, that is our shortcoming to fix. You should never leave a conversation having nodded along to something you did not actually follow.
An honest recommendation, not a full sell
Not every business needs every service. We would rather recommend the engagement that genuinely fits than sell you services you will not use.
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