Books, payroll, reporting and advisory under one roof, so nothing falls between a bookkeeper, a payroll provider and a year-end accountant.
Setting up new systems instead? See setup and implementation pricing.
Monthly books kept current on QuickBooks Online, Xero or Sage.
Statements you can actually run the business from.
Run on time, remitted correctly, filed on schedule.
Job-level numbers for contractors and trades.
Over a decade on upstream capital projects.
Decision support, not just a tidy general ledger.
Most firms will not tell you what they charge until the end of a sales call. Here are the rates. You pay for the hours the work takes, against an estimate agreed before anything starts, so the first invoice holds no surprises.
Sole proprietors and very small businesses
Small businesses with moderate activity
Small to mid-sized firms
Farms, construction and higher-complexity businesses
| Service | Rate |
|---|---|
| Payroll setup | $150 one-time |
| Payroll processing | $35 per employee / month |
| GST/HST filing only | $75 per filing |
| Catch-up or cleanup bookkeeping | $60 / hour |
| Financial modeling | $90–125 / hour or fixed quote |
| Business setup advisory | From $350 fixed |
| Virtual finance manager | From $250 / month |
All amounts in Canadian dollars and exclusive of GST. Complex or high-volume files are quoted before any work begins.
A sample of engagements from fifteen years across capital projects, construction and owner-managed businesses.
Owned cost control across a multi-well drilling program valued in the tens of millions. Built the AFE tracking model that reported live cost position to project sponsors and joint venture partners, and delivered monthly variance analysis, forecast-to-complete updates and cash call forecasts.
Ran cost coding, commitments and the monthly accrual process for a facilities upgrade and pipeline tie-in. Coordinated change management and contingency drawdown reporting directly with engineering and project management, and produced the monthly cost performance and close-out packages.
Implemented QuickBooks Online with class-based job costing for a mid-sized general contractor, then automated WIP reporting and the progress draw schedule. The month-end close went from fifteen days to five, which moved the numbers from a historical record to something usable mid-job.
Moved multiple small businesses off desktop Sage and manual spreadsheets onto QuickBooks Online and Xero, with automated payroll on Wagepoint and QuickBooks Payroll for employers running ten to forty staff, then stayed on for the ongoing bookkeeping, GST/HST filing and monthly reporting.
Most small businesses do not have a bookkeeping problem. They have a systems problem that shows up as late books, surprise tax bills and jobs that turn out to have lost money two months after they finished.
A short call to understand the business, the systems you are on now and where the month-end is getting stuck. No charge, and no obligation to continue.
