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Bookkeeping for Alberta small business

Your books, current, every month.

We keep the books for trades, clinics, cafés and consultancies across Edmonton. Monthly reconciliation, GST filed on time, and a real person who answers when your accountant asks a question in April.

CPB Canada certified QuickBooks & Xero certified Fixed monthly fees

Your month, closed

Bank & credit card reconciledDone
Receipts matched & filedDone
Payables and receivables agedDone
GST/HST trackedDone
Profit & loss issuedDone
By the 10th of every monthwithout being chased

Why people call us

Usually in one of three states.

“I’m eight months behind.”

A shoebox, a bank feed nobody has looked at since spring, and a growing dread. This is the most common call we get, and it is entirely fixable. We catch you up first, then keep you current.

“My accountant charges me to clean this up.”

Accountants bill accountant rates to do bookkeeping. Handing them tidy books instead of a bag of receipts usually saves more than our fee.

“I’m doing it myself at 11pm.”

You’re good at your business. Data entry after a twelve-hour day is not what you should be doing with the last hour of it.

The handover

You send us the mess. We send you a number.

Receipts photographed on a phone, a bank feed we can read, and whatever is currently in the shoebox. That is genuinely the whole of what we need from you to get started.

What we do

Monthly bookkeeping, done properly and on time.

Monthly bookkeeping

Transactions categorised, bank and credit cards reconciled, receipts matched, and a profit-and-loss in your inbox by the 10th.

GST/HST filing

Tracked all year and filed on time, every period. No scrambling in the last week and no late-filing penalties.

Payroll

Up to fifteen employees. Direct deposit, source deductions remitted, T4s issued in February without you thinking about it.

Catch-up & cleanup

Months or years behind, we’ll get you current. Quoted as a one-time fixed fee after we’ve looked at the state of things.

Year-end packages

A clean, reconciled year-end file handed to your accountant in the format they actually want. They will notice.

Software setup

QuickBooks Online or Xero set up properly the first time, with a chart of accounts that fits your trade rather than a generic template.

Full service details

“I was fourteen months behind and genuinely afraid of the mail. They had me current in six weeks and never once made me feel stupid about it.”
— Priya S., owner of a two-van HVAC company · illustrative example
“My accountant’s year-end bill dropped by about $1,400 the first year. That paid for most of the bookkeeping.”
— Daniel O., café owner · illustrative example

Getting started

Three steps, about a week.

No long onboarding project and no implementation fee.

Working through a set of books on a laptop beside a calculator
01

A free thirty-minute call

You tell us what your business does, how far behind you are, and what software you’re on. We tell you honestly what it’ll take and what it’ll cost.

02

A fixed monthly quote

In writing, based on transaction volume rather than a guess. Plus a separate one-time figure for catch-up work if you need it.

03

We take it from there

Read-only bank feed access, your receipts however you like to send them, and a monthly report you’ll actually read. Cancel any month, no notice period.

Next step

Find out what it would cost, in thirty minutes.

No charge, no obligation, and no judgement about how far behind you are. We have genuinely seen worse.