Collins Barrow
 
 

Professional Services

Our services include all the services you may find at a professional accounting firm.  What drives most of us in business, we can all agree, would be maximized profits and minimized tax.

Our firm has a wealth of in-house knowledge on tax issues with a dedicated tax adviser.  We also have the ability to draw on the expertise of our colleagues which extend, not only nation wide with Collins Barrow, but internationally with our affiliation with Praxity!

That gives us the ability to provide you with practical, sound advice on tax and business strategies.  If you have a question, we can get you the answer.

Our core services will allow you to:

  • Market your business for potential purchasers
  • Start a business
  • Expand an existing operation
  • Plan for succession
  • Improve operations
  • Develop a wealth strategy

Many of our clients have been with us for more than a decade.  Click here to find out why.

Tax
We have decades of experience on the unique challenges of the Bow Valley business community and use that to assist our clients to build wealth while minimizing tax.

  • Corporate tax returns
  • Personal tax returns
  • Tax elections
  • Corporate reorganizations
  • G.S.T.
  • Trust and estates
  • Charitable returns
  • Personal financial planning
  • Compensation initiatives
  • Purchase and sale of businesses
  • Matrimonial settlement reviews
  • Scientific research and experimental development claims
  • Non-resident services reporting
  • Tax planning

Audit and Assurance
Our firm believes in providing the audit and assurance services you require and to meet the related standards rather than do more than necessary.

  • Notice to reader reports
  • Review engagement reports
  • Audits of financial statements
  • Sales and other special audits and reports
  • Periodic bookkeeping (monthly, quarterly, etc.)
  • Budget, forecasts and cash flow projections
  • Financial packaging and business plans for financing purposes

Advisory
Tax and financial reporting is a fact of business but is not what means the most.  With our advisory services, we help you find meaning in those numbers and take action from these results.

  • Forecasts and projections for new and existing businesses
  • Selling and buying a business
  • Profitability and cost analyses
  • Bank financing evaluation
  • Internal controls
  • Cash flow management
  • Accounting software implementation and training
  • Human resources for policies, procedures, compensation, payroll, etc.
  • Due diligence
 

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