Bookkeeping for Metro Vancouver small business · West Vancouver, BC · English and MandarinClean books filed on time

Local firms billing hourly charge $75 to $150 an hour, which puts most small businesses between $600 and $2,000 in a typical month. Flat monthly plans here run roughly $300 to $2,000 depending on volume. We charge a fixed monthly fee, not an hourly rate. Tell us your transaction volume and what you need filed, and we will send your number in writing within one business day.

They are two different jobs, usually done at two different times of year. The monthly work is the day to day: receipts, categorization, reconciliation, payroll, GST and PST remittances, and your monthly reports. The year-end work is the income tax return. If you are unincorporated that means a T1 with a statement of business activities. If you are a corporation it means a T2 and its schedules. We do both, so your return comes from books we closed month by month as the year went. If someone else already does your year end, we can handle the monthly work alone and hand them a clean, closed set of books.

It depends on what you sell, not just how much. Most businesses selling goods in BC need to register. Many service businesses do not. PST is separate from GST, so plenty of owners register for one and never realise they missed the other. Tell us what you sell and we will confirm both in your quote.

That is the most common reason people get in touch. We look at how far behind you are and quote the whole catch-up as one number before we start. We clear it, file whatever is outstanding, then begin the monthly plan from a clean set of books. You are not the first, and we will not lecture you about it.

Yes. We are based in West Vancouver and work with businesses across British Columbia. Everything happens online, so there is nothing to drop off and no office to visit.

No. We work in QuickBooks Online, Xero and Sage 50, so you can stay on whichever one you already use. If you are on Wave, spreadsheets or nothing at all, we will recommend one and move you across as part of setup. Shopify and Stripe connect to all three, so your sales reconcile automatically.

You give us access to your accounting file and we take over from the next month. There is no awkward conversation to have first and nothing for you to move. If we find problems in the existing books during handover, we will tell you what we found before doing any extra work.