Christopher C.

𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗤𝗕𝗢 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀? 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝟮 𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝟭𝟭𝟮𝟬? 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗦𝗧/𝗛𝗦𝗧 𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁? You're not alone — and you're in the right place. I'm Chris. I trained at MNP (one of Canada's top-5 accounting firms), I'm a QuickBooks Online Advanced ProAdvisor, and for the last decade I've been the person small businesses call when their books are a mess and tax season is closing in. Here's what makes me different from the other 10,000 bookkeepers on this platform: 𝗜 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝘅 — 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗦. Not just data entry. When you hire me, you get one team handling your monthly books and your returns at year-end, on both sides of the border — so nothing gets lost in the handoff between "my bookkeeper" and "my tax guy," or between your Canadian accountant and your American one. 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀: → Two companies under one owner, one Canadian and one American, both facing IRS penalties over a permanent establishment problem and the treaty position behind it. Got him out of it — and we now run the books and the returns for both. → Managed the books and the US filings directly for several American consulting firms — monthly close, federal and state returns, and quarterly estimates. → Cleaned up 14 months of backlogged QBO books for a Montreal real estate holdco, reconciled 4 bank accounts and 2 credit cards, and filed two years of T2s — done in under 4 weeks. → Rebuilt the chart of accounts for a SaaS startup drowning in 180+ categories, set up a proper monthly close checklist, and cut their month-end from 3 weeks to 4 days. → Caught roughly $9K in missed ITCs for a marketing agency during a GST/HST cleanup — enough to cover a year of bookkeeping fees and then some. 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵: Businesses ($500k –$15M revenue) in the US and Canada — real estate, startups, professional services, consulting, tech/SaaS, and marketing agencies. On QBO, or ready to move there. Wanting one team for bookkeeping and tax, not two. Cross-border owners especially: a Canadian with a US LLC, a US company with a Canadian parent, or anyone with staff, stock or property on both sides. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗯𝘂𝘁-𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗜 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲: Monthly bookkeeping, bank/CC recs, AP/AR, year-end financial statements, and cleaning up whatever the last bookkeeper left behind. 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮: T1 and T2 returns, CO-17 for Quebec, GST/HST/QST across all provinces. 𝗨𝗦: 1120, 1120S, 1065 and the K-1s, 1040 and state returns, Schedule C, state sales tax registration and filing wherever you have nexus, 1099s and W-2s, and quarterly estimates so April isn't a surprise. 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿: Permanent establishment and treaty positions, Form 5472 for foreign-owned US companies (the one with the $25,000 penalty that most bookkeepers have never heard of), 5471, FBAR and 8938, Form 8833, and W-8BEN-E so your US customers stop withholding 30% of your invoice. 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀: I automate the boring stuff. I use Dext to kill receipt data entry, set up bank feeds and rules properly so transactions categorize themselves, and build simple workflows to connect QBO with Shopify, Stripe, or whatever else you're running. The goal isn't "AI magic" — it's making sure you're not paying me to do work a computer could do. Less manual entry = lower fees = cleaner books. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆: Fixed scope, transparent pricing, no surprise invoices, and a real human (me) who picks up when you message. Deadlines don't slip, nothing falls through the cracks. MNP-trained, Master's in Accounting & Finance (University of Bradford), bilingual EN/FR, QBO Advanced ProAdvisor, and 70+ jobs on Upwork at 100% Job Success. Top Rated. If your books are a mess and you need someone who'll tell it to you straight, invite me to your job. First 30 minutes are on me — I'll look at your books, tell you exactly what's wrong, and let you decide whether you want me to fix it.