About
№ 03 · PracticeCoquitlam and the Tri-Cities
A small practice for a fast city. Books kept current across Coquitlam.
In Coquitlam, plenty of owners run a business and a property portfolio side by side. We keep both sets of records current each month, with one named bookkeeper on the file.
Why we focus on Coquitlam.
Before this practice, I worked for a decade inside Canadian accounting firms, and in time ran the books function for a mid-sized CPA practice. The files that took the most untangling tended to look alike. Commission income landed in a personal account. Strata fees for a rental condo went on the business card. A presale deposit never made it into anyone’s records.
Coquitlam has a lot of owners in that position. The city moves quickly, with towers rising along the Evergreen Line and new streets on Burke Mountain, and many people here run a business and a property portfolio at once: agents with a personal real estate corporation, owners holding a rental condo or two, buyers waiting on a presale. Coquitlam Bookkeeping is set up for them.
In practice, that means one bookkeeper who keeps each entity’s records separate and current, and closes them by the 10th of every month. Corporate tax returns, CPA review engagements and advice on structure sit outside our scope. For those, we refer you to CPA firms in the Tri-Cities and across the Lower Mainland, and work alongside whichever one you choose.
If your books need to keep pace with you, we would be glad to talk.
Aman — Founder and Principal
Four rules we hold ourselves to.
Quiet unless it matters.
You get the monthly package and the odd question. No newsletters, no check-in calls for their own sake, nothing that only adds to your inbox.
A name, not a queue.
Your file has one bookkeeper. They set it up, close it each month and reply when you write. Nobody new to brief when the spring market gets busy.
Every number, in a sentence.
Ask why cash dipped or a margin slipped and the answer comes back in plain words, with the transactions behind it if you want to see them.
We say no when we should.
We take on a limited number of files. If yours needs a tax specialist or a bigger team, we tell you on the first call and point you to the right kind of firm.
On the land where we work.
We respectfully acknowledge that our work takes place on the traditional and ancestral lands of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation, including those parts historically shared with the q̓icə̓y̓ (Katzie) and other Coast Salish Peoples.
The owners we work for live and trade around places like the Coquitlam River, Lafarge Lake and Mundy Park. The river and the land around it were home to people long before any business here kept a ledger. Saying so is a beginning, not a finished task. We mean to keep learning, and to let what we learn shape how we work in this city.
Let's see if we fit.
Book 20 minutes. Bring last month's statements or just a rough picture, and leave knowing what the work would cost.