Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How?
Working with you, your staff and outside year-end accountant, at your offices or ours

What?
Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable (recording revenue and expenses)
Bank Reconciliations
HST remittance or refund preparation
Financial Statements with complete balance sheet analysis for year-end preparation

When?
If you
               are having trouble determining what software to use, how to set it up, how to select and train staff
              find entering daily transactions is a low priority because of limited time
              find data-entry and balancing  books a challenge
              don’t know who owes you or who you owe
              don’t know your true bank balance
              are dealing with Canada Revenue Agency, Ministry of Finance, collection calls
              are not quite sure how to record fixed asset purchases or leases
              are not producing financial statements monthly
              absolutely dread year-end!
Then
              the time to Call the Bookkeeper is now!

Why?
Save money!
 It’s less expensive to hire an outside bookkeeper than an employee; no need to pay for statutory deductions, employee benefits, vacation pay; pay only for time spent on your file

Save time!
Focus on what your business does best rather than doing the books yourself. Focus on sales, product design, delivery and satisfying your clients

Foundation to lasting success!
Without accurate and timely bookkeeping and financial reports you can find yourself in the weeds when it comes to on-time remittances, customer collections and vendor payments.  It is difficult to plan for long-term business without current business results. Applications for leasing or credit often depend on the current year’s financial statements.

Reduce stress!
 It’s a huge undertaking, setting up and running your own business without worrying about the ‘paperwork’.  An experienced bookkeeper knows what to do, how to do it and when.

With Call the Bookkeeper taking care of the financial transactional processing and reporting, you can concentrate on running your business, secure in the knowledge it has been done ‘by the book’

Call the Bookkeeper.....
is a straight-forward, time-flexible and cost-effective service to provide your business with the bookkeeping and accounting resources you need.
 works the nights and weekends, so you don’t have to.
 will take care of as little or as much you need or want;  setting up your books on either your software or ours, working from your office or ours, performing the data-entry all the way through the accounting cycle to financial statement preparation and presentation to year-end working papers for your tax accountant or just come in at month end to wrap things up, check things over and do the financial statements
 can also do special projects and consultations to help you select and hire and train new in-house bookkeepers, should you choose that route, and only oversee the month and year-end processes.
has over 30 years’ experience in both the for and not-for-profit sectors, including service organizations, retail, construction, manufacturing, food-services, home services, general services, homeopathic, single proprietor, partnerships and corporations.