About Schultz, Wood & Rapp
Schultz, Wood & Rapp, P.C. (SWR) is a full service regional CPA Firm in Southern Missouri with offices located in Springfield and West Plains.
SWR dedicates its time and efforts in serving business entrepreneurs, providing a full-range of financial reporting, tax services and management consulting.
Our Business is Taking Care of Your Business.
Our diverse client base, years of public accounting experience, smaller firm size and personal attention to our clients gives us an advantage over our peers in providing these services. SWR’s commitment to our clients is to exceed their expectations in delivering quality and timely service. We provide innovative strategies to enhance our clients’ entrepreneurial spirit and profitability, and we strive to enhance the communities we work in to help sustain quality living and economic prosperity.
Our clients expect and receive a hands-on approach from SWR CPAs to assist them in accomplishing their objectives.
Our History
Our Springfield office dates back to the early 1960’s when Herb Cohen, CPA opened up his accounting practice as a sole practitioner and later formed Springfield’s largest accounting practice known as Cohen and Kirkpatrick, CPA’s. In 1983, Cohen started up his second CPA Firm, forming the professional service corporation now known as SWR.
Ken Schultz, CPA, CVA joined the Firm in 1990, allowing Cohen to retire, and with Dave Covey as his partner, practiced as Cohen, Covey and Schultz, P.C., offering attestation, tax, and management consulting services to the small-to-medium sized business clients in the greater Springfield Area. In 1992, Connie Rapp, CPA joined the Firm and was promoted to shareholder status in 1998. Bill Wood, CPA joined SWR in 2003, and became a shareholder in 2010, Bill retired from the firm in June 2019. Nicholas Schultz, CPA joined the Firm in 2012 and was promoted to shareholder status in June 2019, forming today’s present ownership of SWR.
In 2000, SWR purchased the West Plains CPA practice of Egan & Mangold, P.C. The West Plains client base dates back to 1947, when Paul Schwegman, CPA hung his shingle as a sole practitioner.