Step-by-step fee estimates, automation payback examples and checklists for choosing an accountant and preparing your year-end package.
These guides turn the cost drivers into numbers you can check yourself before you request quotes. Each worked example shows the arithmetic, uses clearly illustrative hourly rates and transaction counts, and tells you which inputs to replace with your own.
The pillar guide on estimating your accounting costs walks through a full-year budget for three typical corporations. From there you can work through the year-end package checklist, compare doing the books yourself, hiring a bookkeeper or using a full-service firm, test whether software pays for itself in the automation payback example, use the accountant selection checklist, read your engagement letter for extra fees and price a catch-up bookkeeping project.
The calculators in the tools section use the same formulas as the guides, so you can rerun every example with your own figures.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
Calculate the payback period of moving a Canadian corporation to cloud accounting with bank feeds and receipt capture, with three illustrative scenarios including one that loses money.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
How to estimate the cost of catch-up bookkeeping and unfiled corporate returns in Canada, what to gather first, and how to limit penalties while the work is done.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
A practical checklist for choosing a CPA or accounting firm for a Canadian small corporation, covering credentials, licensing, scope, fees, software, CRA authorization and data access.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
Compare the true cost of DIY bookkeeping, an independent bookkeeper and a full-service accounting firm for a Canadian corporation, including the value of your own time.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
Which engagement letter clauses decide what a Canadian corporation actually pays its accountant, what is commonly billed as extra, and how to negotiate a clearer scope.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
A step-by-step method to budget bookkeeping, year-end, T2 and filing costs for a Canadian corporation, with three illustrative corporations and the arithmetic shown.
Worked Estimates and Checklists
A complete checklist of records a Canadian corporation should send its accountant at year end, why each matters, and how missing items turn into extra fees.
