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Bookkeeper in Burnaby

Tech companies, retail, professional services, and healthcare. Professional remote bookkeeping, payroll, and CFO advisory — delivered with plain language and honest pricing.

The Burnaby business landscape

Burnaby is a hub for tech companies clustered around Metrotown and the BCIT corridor, retail businesses along Hastings and Kingsway, and professional service firms throughout the city. Burnaby businesses need bookkeeping that can handle software subscriptions, SaaS revenue recognition, and multi-location retail accounting. Fluent Books delivers that precision every month.

Bookkeeping for Burnaby owners — what we actually do

Burnaby businesses sit between Vancouver's scale and Surrey's growth, and they tend to share traits of both. A Brentwood-based SaaS company is closing customers in three currencies and recognising revenue across deferred contracts. A Metrotown retailer is running point-of-sale across two storefronts and an online channel that all need to reconcile to a single set of books. A consulting firm near SFU is billing time-and-materials to corporate clients with 60-day payment terms. The bookkeeping reality: complexity rises faster than headcount. We work with Burnaby owners who need clean revenue recognition, accurate inter-company entries when there's a holdco, and reports good enough to take to a bank or a board without rework.

What we handle for Burnaby businesses

Monthly Bookkeeping

Monthly bookkeeping for Burnaby SaaS, multi-location retail, and professional services. Deferred revenue waterfalls, multi-channel POS reconciliation, contract billing, and inter-company entries handled in QuickBooks Online or Xero.

Payroll Services

Paycheques, CRA remittances, T4s, ROEs, and WorkSafeBC reporting — handled completely so you never miss a deadline.

Tax Preparation & Filing

T2 corporate returns, GST/PST filings, and year-end preparation. We work with your accountant or handle it directly.

Bookkeeping Cleanup

Behind on your books? We will catch you up — no judgement. Months or years of backlog sorted and reconciled.

Cloud Accounting Setup

QuickBooks Online or Xero setup for new Burnaby businesses — chart of accounts designed for your industry, Stripe/Square/Shopify integrations connected properly, multi-currency configured, and class/location tracking enabled if you operate from more than one site.

Fractional CFO Advisory

Fractional CFO for Burnaby tech and growth-stage businesses — board-ready monthly packs, MRR/ARR/churn dashboards for SaaS, 13-week cash forecasts, and a monthly call to align numbers with whatever the next milestone is.

We needed a bookkeeper who understood recurring revenue and deferred revenue accounting. Fluent Books nailed it from month one. Our board deck financials are always ready on time.
— David C., SaaS Founder, Burnaby

Common questions from Burnaby businesses

Annual contracts paid in advance need to be recognised as revenue over the service period, not in the month you collected the cash. We set up a deferred revenue liability account, post the cash receipt against it, and run an automatic monthly journal that releases 1/12 of the contract value to revenue each month. Your monthly P&L then reflects what you actually earned in that period, your balance sheet shows what you still owe in service, and your gross margin and CAC payback metrics finally make sense. It's also what your auditor or due-diligence team will expect.
SR&ED claims live or die on the contemporaneous record. Through the year we tag eligible labour by project, track third-party R&D contractor invoices separately, keep a clean audit trail for stock-based compensation if relevant, and capture overhead allocations under the proxy method. At year-end we hand your SR&ED consultant a clean export of the eligible costs by project, supporting documents attached, with the T661 numbers ready to plug in. CRA reviews are easier when the bookkeeping was right the whole way through, not reconstructed in March.
We use class or location tracking in QuickBooks Online (or tracking categories in Xero) so each location has its own P&L while rolling up to a consolidated set of books. Sales from the Metrotown POS and the online store land in their own classes, payroll for each store's team is allocated correctly, and shared overhead (head office payroll, software, accounting) sits in a no-class bucket. The result: you can see whether each store is making money on its own, and so can the bank when you ask for a line of credit expansion.
BC PST applies at 7% on most software sales to BC customers, including SaaS subscriptions, downloaded software, and many digital services. Sales to customers outside BC are PST-exempt but may have GST/HST consequences. Sales to other businesses with a valid PST number sometimes qualify for a resale exemption, sometimes don't — it depends on whether your customer is reselling the software or using it. We set up your billing system (Stripe Billing, Chargebee, QuickBooks recurring) to apply BC PST automatically based on customer location and exemption status, file the PST return on time, and reconcile it monthly.

Nearby areas we serve

Vancouver

Startups, tech, hospitality, and professional services in the heart of British Columbia.

Richmond

Import/export, food services, and logistics near YVR airport.

Coquitlam

Healthcare, retail, and professional services in the Tri-Cities.

New Westminster

Healthcare, education, and small businesses in BC's original capital.

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