At Square One, everything we do reflects a specialized, thoughtful approach to your unique business requirements. We believe in strong collaboration, right from the start, in order to deliver the best results possible.
We are passionate about helping businesses create actionable strategies that provide growth and focus on future goals. We serve the business and its owners in order to achieve goals and success.
By continually delivering excellence, Square One strives to inspire trust and loyalty in our customers. We take great pride in your business achievements and successes just as much as you do.
With over 20 years of experience, Christine and her team are able to assist an array of businesses covering diverse industries throughout the province of BC.
Having a background in financial analysis helps us to prepare budgets, business plans and produce reports to better manage your business. We are also here to help you get your business organized and keep it that way as well as communicate with all external government reporting agencies.
By partnering with us to help you manage key non-core functions, you can concentrate efforts on maximizing your core business, which is essential to businesses that are positioned for growth.
As a testament to Square One's proven track record, we have successfully provided outsourced accounting and bookkeeping services to a variety of industries. Our continuously increasing knowledge and expertise of these industries advances our development of industry specific tools, benchmarks and offerings. Some examples of the industries we serve include but are not limited to:
Clients often come to us with different needs and goals; as a result we can tailor & integrate our bookkeeping services to suit your particular business needs. Our bookkeeping services include Accounts Payable & Receivable Management, Bank Reconciliations, Inventory Management, Revenue Reconciliation with Bank Deposits and Recording & Reconciling Payroll Transactions.
We can make your budget as simple or as complex as you need it. We sit down with you, ask a few key questions, review old financial statement data, and then design a budgeting model that can be used to forecast what direction you want your company to go in. The information is then input into the bookkeeping program and reports compared to budget can be generated in a timely and useful manner.
We can analyze your business costs by setting up your chart of accounts to capture expenses and analyze those expenses versus predetermined budgets. We can also look at possible situations you are thinking of doing and compare the costs versus the long term benefits to see if it is worth doing and how long it will take for those benefits to cover the original costs.
Good planning is a major key to business growth and survival. Our business advisors can help develop an excellent business plan by going through and developing a forecasted budget, performing a SWOT analysis and assisting in writing up the final proposal for any financing you may be requesting.
Management reporting is invaluable to many of our clients. We take the normal accounting data and produce reports to enable them to assess expenditures related to a particular matter. These types of reports can also identify areas to contain or cut costs. Reports can be customized to suit your needs and data can be filtered however you require to help you better manage your company.
At Square One Accounting & Business Services we utilize Sage One Accounting software. We love how intuitive Sage One is, in fact we use it to run our own business. That’s why we recommend Sage One to all our clients and are an accredited Sage One advisor.
We also work with Intuit Quickbooks software. Small business owners typically use Quickbooks to manage invoices, generate financial reports as well as preparing for quarterly or annual business taxes.