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Architecture & Engineering
The advisors of BKD National Construction & Real Estate Group understand the key role of architecture and engineering firms in project conception and execution. Our knowledge of your business—from designing to building–allows us to help you implement critical strategies and develop tax solutions that align with your goals, all presented with a highly personal and interactive style of business.
Tax Services
Reducing your tax exposure makes good business sense. Our tax consultants are skilled in delivering creative tax strategies designed to take full advantage of the law. BKD provides comprehensive tax planning services and helps identify refund opportunities. Experience how our insight can help you:
• Develop federal and state tax strategies designed to help lower or defer taxes
• Anticipate and resolve controversies with taxing authorities
• Select a “tax aware” organizational structure that matches your strategic plan
• Identify potential refund opportunities through reverse sales tax audits and sales and property tax reviews
• Leverage incentive programs, including tax credits and training reimbursements
• Conduct real estate cost segregation studies to generate significant cash flow potential
• Seek tax credits for research and development work
Audit & Assurance
Audited financial statements have benefits far beyond their immediate function. BKD can provide an objective assessment of your financial statements to deliver usable data as well as the insight needed to help improve your business. Experience the benefits of BKD’s audit and assurance services, including:
• Audits and reviews
• Internal audits
• Overhead audits
• Corporate governance and internal controls
Strategic Planning
Achieving success in an ever-changing world, breaking through to the next level and successfully transitioning the reins of leadership require unique skills. Our insight comes from working with many clients who have faced the same challenges.
We can help:
• Facilitate strategic planning that examines the competition, assesses strengths and weaknesses, identifies opportunities and threats and develops strategic alternatives to reach goals
• Prepare a business plan to implement your strategic plan
• Develop a capital financing plan for major projects, working capital, start-up costs, acquisitions and new product development
• Evaluate various financing alternatives
• Negotiate financing terms and assess bonding company alternatives
International Expansion
As your company pursues innovation and stretches its boundaries, BKD can help you compete successfully while complying with international tax rules. Experience guidance from BKD in:
• Tax organization structure
• Transfer pricing: domestic and international
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Human Capital
Focusing on training and retaining skilled employees is critical to your organization’s success.
BKD can help your company in your efforts to maintain a quality work force and improve job performance. We can assist you with:
• Incentive compensation
• Qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plans
• Regulatory compliance
• Employee stock ownership plans
Jerry Henderson
Jerry Henderson
National Industry Partner
Audit
Construction & Real Estate
Louisville
502.581.0435
John Steffes
John Steffes
Partner
Tax
Construction & Real Estate, Energy & Natural Resources
Houston
713.499.4600
John Kmetz
John Kmetz
Partner
Audit, IFRS, International Services
Manufacturing & Distribution
Kansas City
816.221.6300
“In the past, we’d had our compliance work split between two firms, and I wanted to get it all under one umbrella. We felt we could get that work done, with good advice, from BKD, and we could get that service at a reasonable price. It’s a good relationship—people are accessible, they’re friendly to do business with, and I get answers back in a reasonable amount of time.
We expect a high level of service and competent advice, and we’ve always gotten that from BKD. Beyond the basics, we’re looking for a firm that suggests ideas. What’s a better way to run our business? Are there tax planning issues? Are there things on the operational side or on the balance sheet we should be looking at? Look at my whole business and offer some ideas, and eventually we’ll hit one that makes a lot of sense. We found BKD to provide a high level of service and people that will present ideas on how to better run our business.
HOK is like a lot of companies: We’re too big to be small and too small to be big. We need our outside advisors to be constantly giving us observations, thoughts and comments about how we’re running our business, and that’s what we’re getting from BKD.”
— Timothy Tynan,
Senior Vice President
HOK Group
St. Louis, Missouri
“We rely on BKD’s technical expertise for audit and tax services, and I feel confident in their advisors’ ability to alert us about issues on the horizon that may affect our engineering business. The BKD team is responsive, and the partners go out of their way to help. BKD invested the time necessary to understand Terracon and used the knowledge they gained to better serve our firm.
I appreciate BKD’s ongoing communication with our company, not only during audit and tax time, but throughout the year. When needs arise, BKD responds to our calls and offers immediate assistance. In one instance, we needed to present a balance sheet on a critical deadline. BKD team members went out of their way to help us compile accurate financial information in a timely manner.”
— David R. Gaboury, Chief Executive Officer
Terracon
Olathe, Kansas
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