Small business and owner-managers
Accounting for small businesses and owner-managers.
For Vancouver trades, retail, service, real estate and hospitality owners who want clean books, tax handled right, and an accountant they can reach through the year.
Sound familiar?
The headaches we hear from owner-managers.
If a few of these land, you are exactly who this is for.
- Your books are behind and you dread what year-end will turn up
- You are not sure whether to pay yourself salary, dividends, or both
- Your accountant only surfaces in April and never explains anything
- GST and PST filings sneak up on you and you have eaten penalties before
- You cannot get a straight answer on whether the business can afford a hire or a truck
- You are incorporated but nobody has explained how your corp and personal tax fit together
- You want one consistent point of contact who knows your file year to year
How we help
The services owner-managers lean on most.
The work most owner-managers actually need, kept current.
BK
Monthly or quarterly bookkeeping
QuickBooks Online or Xero kept reconciled and current, so you always know where you stand and there is no year-end scramble.
TAX
Corporate and personal tax together
Your T2 and your family's T1s planned as one picture: salary, dividends, RRSP room and instalments.
GST
GST, PST and payroll
Sales-tax filings and payroll runs handled on schedule, so CRA deadlines stop being a source of late fees.
NTR
Financial statements
Compiled statements prepared when your bank or landlord asks for them, and a review engagement where one is genuinely required.
ADV
Plain-English numbers
We translate the financials into what they mean for hiring, pricing, and the next equipment purchase.
PLN
Planning through the year
Budgeting, cash flow and structure questions answered as they come up, rather than held until next April.
Worth knowing
Thinking about selling in the next few years?
Owner-managed businesses are the ones most often caught out by a sale. The books are good enough to file but not good enough to survive a buyer's diligence, and the corporate structure was never set up with an exit in mind.
If a sale or a handover is anywhere on your horizon, the Exit Readiness Review is the place to start, and starting two to three years out gives you real options.
Next step
Book a call.
Fifteen or twenty minutes, no charge. You describe the situation, David tells you whether he can help and what it would cost.
(778) 980-7276
info@dsjmaccounting.com