by admin | Mar 21, 2018 | Accountant, Bookkeeping, Entrepreneur, Small Business
You’ve started your own business and it’s starting to grow. You quickly realize you need help with your business finances. But do you hire an accountant or a bookkeeper? What’s the difference? Is there a difference? What does a bookkeeper do? A bookkeeper is...
by admin | Oct 14, 2017 | Accountant, Retirement, retirement plan
Author: Lynn Williams, Lifestyle Protector 14 September 2017 Starting, running and growing a business is hard work. As a business owner, you have countless responsibilities and too few hours in a day. Often, in the midst of professional priorities, you end up putting...
by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Accountant, Accounting Tips
Few things throw a business into chaos like preparing an annual budget. It often sends managers into a tailspin as all other work stops so that numbers can be crunched and estimates can be worked up. The complexity of forecasting makes things even more challenging....
by admin | Jun 17, 2016 | Accountant, Accounting Tips, Bookkeeping, Entrepreneur, Tax Accountant, Tax Tips, Taxes
As you know, businesses must not only pay tax, but also collect it. For the majority of Canadians, that means collecting for the government and paying to the government GST as well as possibly PST (or HST), paying tax on income (both federal and provincial), property...
by admin | May 10, 2016 | Accountant, Bookkeeping, Entrepreneur, Self-Employed, Tax Accountant, Tax Tips, Taxes
If you’ve visited the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) website to try to determine deadlines for filing your business taxes, you’ve probably been lost in pages of information that don’t quite answer your question. It seems simple to ask –...
by admin | Apr 19, 2016 | Accountant, Accounting Tips, Entrepreneur, Tax Accountant, Tax Tips, Taxes
A call from the Canada Revenue Agency (the CRA, sometimes known by the former name of Revenue Canada) can feel scary and intimidating. We understand. It’s one of the reasons having your taxes done by a professional and keeping records together and complete are...
