CPA-led · Available across Ontario

Your books, your corporate tax, and someone to ask — for less than a hire.

SG Accounting Services is a CPA-run practice serving incorporated small businesses across Ontario. You get monthly books that are actually reconciled, corporate tax filed on time, and straight answers when a decision has tax attached to it. Flat fee, quoted before we start.

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The short version

Most small businesses are paying for data entry and going without judgment.

SG Accounting Services is run by a Chartered Professional Accountant with years of professional experience in corporate accounting — consolidations, cost accounting, corporate tax, and cash management. That same standard of work is what owner-operated businesses across Ontario get here.

What that means for you: the same people who keep your books also file your corporate return and answer your questions — nothing passed between a bookkeeper who doesn't know tax and an accountant who sees your file once a year. One relationship, the whole picture, a flat monthly fee.

If your books are behind, if you're guessing at what you owe, or if you're about to hire someone to do this in-house — that's the conversation to have.

SG Accounting Services
CPA-run · Ontario

What I do

Three things, done properly.

Books kept current, filings made on time, and advice when a decision has tax attached to it. Every file is handled with CPA oversight — not squeezed in around whatever else is due that week.

See what an in-house hire really costs

Ongoing

Bookkeeping

Transactions coded, accounts reconciled, and a close you can set your calendar by.

  • Bank and credit card reconciliation
  • AP and AR tracking
  • Payroll, source deductions, T4s and ROEs
  • HST tracked as you go, not in a panic
  • Monthly statements with a plain-language note on what changed

Annual

Corporate tax filing

Year-end and the T2, prepared from books I already know inside out.

  • T2 corporate return and schedules
  • Year-end adjusting entries and working papers
  • HST returns and reconciliation
  • CRA correspondence handled

As needed

Tax advisory

The questions that cost money when they're answered late — or guessed at.

  • Salary vs. dividends for the owner
  • Timing purchases, CCA and write-offs
  • Incorporation and holding-company questions
  • Cash flow and what you can actually afford to take out

The math

Hiring in-house costs more than the salary.

The posting says one number. The employer side says another. And a bookkeeper on staff still can't file your corporate return — that's a second bill.

Bookkeeper on payroll

Employer's real cost

Base salarythe offer

CPP employer contributions+

EI employer premiums (1.4×)+

Vacation pay accrual+

Benefits, WSIB, equipment+

Your time recruiting, training, reviewing+

External accountant for the T2+

True annual costwell past the salary

SG Accounting Services

What you pay

Flat monthly feequoted upfront

CPP, EI, vacation, benefits

Recruiting and training

Coverage when someone's awayincluded

Corporate tax filingincluded

Tax questions during the yearincluded

Scale up or down as you growyours to change

True annual costthe fee, and that's it

Illustrative. Employer contribution rates and thresholds change annually, and Ontario's Employer Health Tax exemption means many small employers pay none — ask me to run the numbers against a real salary figure for your situation.

Who this fits

Owner-operated, Ontario, and past the shoebox stage.

Incorporated small businesses

Trades, daycares, clinics, retail and e-commerce, professional corporations, small manufacturers.

Anywhere in Ontario

Available across Ontario. Kitchener–Waterloo, Windsor, Toronto, or a town with no accountant left in it.

Roughly 1–20 staff

Big enough that the books matter, small enough that a full-time hire is hard to justify.

Behind, or about to be

Catch-up work is welcome. Being embarrassed about the state of it is not a disqualifier — it's the norm.

How it works

Four steps, no runaround.

  1. A 15-minute call

    What you run, what shape the books are in, what's actually bothering you. No pitch deck.

  2. A written quote

    Fixed monthly fee and a defined scope, in writing, before any work starts. If catch-up is needed, it's quoted separately so it doesn't distort your monthly number.

  3. Onboarding

    Read-only bank access or statements, your accounting file, and a short handover. Usually done inside a week.

  4. The monthly rhythm

    Books closed on schedule, statements sent with a short note on what changed, HST kept current, and your corporate return filed when the year ends. Questions in between are part of the fee.

Bookkeeping & accounting

Flat monthly. Quoted before we start.

Hourly billing punishes you for asking questions, and you never know the number until it arrives. The fee here is flat, set from your actual transaction volume and complexity, and it doesn't move because you called twice in a month.

No office overhead to pass along — which is how the work stays at a price a small business can plan around.

Starter

Micro Business

Sole proprietors and freelancers with simple books.

Starting at$200/month CAD

  • Up to 50 transactions
  • 1–2 account reconciliations
  • Monthly P&L and balance sheet
  • Email support
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Growth

Small Business

Growing businesses that need AP/AR and HST support.

Starting at$500/month CAD

  • 50–150 transactions
  • Everything in Starter
  • AP and AR management
  • Quarterly HST filing
  • Priority support
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Scale

Mid-Market

Full-cycle support with payroll and monthly review calls.

Starting at$1,000/month CAD

  • 150–400 transactions
  • Everything in Growth
  • Full payroll (up to 10 employees)
  • Monthly review calls
  • CRA remittances
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Premium

CFO-Lite

Advisory-level support with forecasting and multi-entity books.

Starting at$2,000/month CAD

  • 400+ transactions
  • Everything in Scale
  • Cash flow forecasting
  • Multi-entity support
  • Strategic advisory calls
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Always included: monthly close, reconciliations, statements, HST tracking, and email or phone questions during the engagement.

Quoted separately: catch-up or cleanup of prior periods, tax filings, CRA correspondence, and one-off projects like incorporation planning.

Tax filing

Priced on its own, because it isn't data entry.

Tax filing sits outside the monthly plans. A return takes judgment — what's claimable, how income comes out of the company, what a decision this year costs you next year — so it's quoted on its own rather than buried in a bookkeeping fee.

Personal tax return

Starting at$40

T1 for employed and retired individuals. Slips, credits, and deductions reviewed before filing.

Self-employed return

Starting at$100

T1 with business or professional income, including the T2125 statement, expense review, and HST considerations.

Corporate tax return

Starting at$400

T2 with schedules, year-end adjusting entries, and working papers. Salary versus dividend planning discussed before anything is filed.

Final fee depends on complexity — multiple income sources, rental or investment property, incorporation in its first year, or books that need work before a return can be prepared. You get the number in writing before anything starts.

Questions

The things people ask first.

How much does a bookkeeper cost for a small business in Ontario?

Monthly bookkeeping here starts at $200 for simple sole-proprietor books and runs to $2,000+ for multi-entity, advisory-level work. The fee is flat and set from your actual transaction volume and complexity, quoted in writing before any work starts.

Do you file corporate tax returns (T2) as well as keeping the books?

Yes. Corporate returns are prepared from books that are already reconciled, so nothing is passed between a bookkeeper who doesn't know tax and an accountant who sees the file once a year. T2 filing is priced separately, starting at $400.

Can you clean up books that are months or years behind?

Catch-up and cleanup work is welcome and very common. It's quoted separately from the monthly fee so a one-time backlog doesn't distort your ongoing number.

Do you work with businesses outside Kitchener–Waterloo?

Yes — the practice serves incorporated small businesses across Ontario, including Toronto, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Ottawa and smaller communities, working remotely with read-only bank access or statements.

Should I pay myself a salary or dividends?

It depends on your corporation's income, your personal situation, RRSP room, and CPP considerations. That analysis is part of tax advisory and is included in ongoing engagements rather than billed by the hour.

Is the monthly fee hourly or fixed?

Fixed. Hourly billing punishes you for asking questions. The flat fee covers the monthly close, reconciliations, statements, HST tracking, and email or phone questions during the engagement.

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Tell me what you're dealing with.

Fifteen minutes, no obligation, and you'll leave the call knowing what it would cost.

Serving
Available across Ontario
Credential
Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA)

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