OUR SERVICES

At Acuity, our experienced team will help you find the solutions you’ve been looking for. From traditional accounting to outstanding business advice, we can assist you in a wide range of areas, including: 

ACCOUNTING & ASSURANCE

We strive to go beyond balance sheets and provide you with more meaningful financial information. Our goal is to help you understand the information, so you can feel confident in your business decisions.

Year- End Services

With you, we walk through your financial statements and adjust them to best suit your business. Depending on your needs, there are three levels of financial statements:

1) Audits: very thorough and legally required

2) Reviews: when you need a statement that has added checks for the plausibility of your results

3) Compilations: putting together your numbers

· Corporate taxes

· T4 and T5 wages and dividend statements

Bookkeeping Services

We provide full bookkeeping services for our clients which include recording and reconciling all banking and transactions to prepare the necessary GST returns. We provide you with a detailed general ledger so that you can monitor and approve our entries.

TAXATION

Taxes are inevitable. We want to help you get the most out of your business by anticipating, measuring, and minimizing the consequences in order to help you retain more after-tax dollars.

Navigating Canada Revenue Agency’s strict requirements can be challenging. That is why we focus on providing guidance for businesses as well as individuals as one of our core services.

We also believe in a proactive vs reactive approach to tax services. By keeping current on new tax laws and legislation, we can identify key tax planning opportunities that minimize both current and future tax liabilities. 

In addition to compliance work, we can also assist you with the following:

· Estate and business succession planning

· Corporate structuring and reorganizations

· Shareholder/owner remuneration planning

· Sale planning and support

· Creditor proofing business and personal assets

BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES

We help you find the soft spots in your business where you may be investing too much, or not enough. Let us help you develop strategies towards a path to success.

Perhaps our most valuable service is that of a trained sounding board for management.  By listening to your concerns and issues, we can help you to develop comprehensive and flexible strategies that will propel your business towards success.

We may not know all the answers, but we are experts at understanding the issues in order to systematically approach them until a solution can be found.

Working with you one-on-one, our team will help you identify key organizational goals and develop a plan of action to succeed. Be sure to talk to us for value-added advice on:

· Strategic Plans

· Business Plans

· Feasibility Assessments

· Marketing Plans

· Financial control systems

· Computer training and assistance with Accounting Software

AGRICULTURAL

We know farming.  We realize that the farming industry is unique and understand the challenges faced.  Whether assisting with bank financing, preparing government program applications or planning for the transition to the next generation, we can help.

Our team members are intimately familiar with all aspects of the agriculture industry, with roots in family farms themselves.

Government Programs

These programs are in a continual state of evolution. Let us keep up with all the changes so you can focus on your business operations. We are familiar with the farm assistance programs such as AgriInvest and AgriStability and can prepare the necessary applications and follow-up to ensure you are receiving the optimum claim available.

Taxation and Succession

Whether it’s time to harvest or time to transition the family farm to the next generation, we can help.  No we won’t drive your grain truck, but we can ease your burden by preparing your bookkeeping and GST returns.  We can also develop strategies to minimize tax and utilize the tax-free capital gains exemption.