Services

Full-cycle bookkeeping, done behind your firm

Everything below is delivered under your brand and handed back ready for your review. We describe it as full-cycle because we take the file from raw transactions all the way to a close package — not a slice of the work that leaves the awkward parts with you.

01

Accounts payable

Bills entered, coded and aged — so your client always knows what they owe and when.

We enter and code supplier bills against the chart of accounts your firm approved, match them to purchase documentation, and keep the vendor ledger clean. Payment runs are prepared and handed to you or your client for approval. We never move money.

What you receive

  • Bill entry and GL coding
  • Vendor statement reconciliation
  • Aged payables with the outliers flagged
  • Payment runs prepared for your approval
  • Duplicate and missing-document exceptions listed, not guessed at
02

Accounts receivable

Invoices out, receipts applied, and an aging report that reflects reality.

We raise invoices on your client’s billing cycle, apply receipts against the right invoices, and keep the subledger tied to the GL. Where an account is drifting, you get told — collections calls stay with you, because the client relationship is yours.

What you receive

  • Invoice preparation and delivery
  • Receipt application and deposit matching
  • Aged receivables with commentary on the problem accounts
  • Customer subledger tied to the general ledger
  • Write-off and credit-note entries prepared for approval
03

Bank and credit card reconciliations

Every account, every period, reconciled to the statement — not to a plug.

Chequing, savings, credit cards, lines of credit and merchant clearing accounts are reconciled to source statements each period. Unmatched items are investigated, and anything we cannot resolve is escalated to you with the supporting documents attached, rather than buried in a suspense account.

What you receive

  • All bank, credit card and loan accounts reconciled to statements
  • Merchant and payment-processor clearing accounts tied out
  • Stale and unpresented items reviewed, not carried forward silently
  • A written list of open items with the document trail
  • Zero unexplained balancing entries
04

Journal entries

Accruals, prepaids, amortization and payroll entries — posted with support attached.

Recurring and adjusting entries are posted on a documented schedule so the monthly numbers are comparable. Every entry carries a description, a supporting calculation and a reference, which means your reviewer can follow the logic without phoning anyone.

What you receive

  • Accrual and prepaid schedules maintained
  • Amortization and depreciation entries
  • Payroll journal entries from your client’s payroll reports
  • Intercompany and due-to/due-from entries
  • Year-end adjusting entries posted from your firm’s instructions
05

Chart of accounts

A structure the client’s statements can actually be read from.

We build or rebuild the chart of accounts so the financial statements say something useful — with the account groupings, departments and tracking categories your firm wants to report on. On existing files we consolidate the duplicated and abandoned accounts that accumulate over the years, and map the history so prior periods stay comparable.

What you receive

  • Chart of accounts design or cleanup
  • Duplicate and unused accounts consolidated
  • Historical transactions remapped so comparatives hold
  • Departments, classes and tracking categories set up
  • A written mapping document your firm signs off on
06

Month-end close package

One predictable handoff each period, ready for your review.

Everything above lands as a single package on an agreed date each month: reconciled statements, the supporting schedules, and a short note on what changed and what needs your attention. It is built to be reviewed quickly, because your time on the file is the expensive part.

What you receive

  • Balance sheet, income statement and trial balance
  • Reconciliation reports with supporting statements
  • Aged payables and receivables
  • Open-items and questions list, prioritized
  • A close checklist showing what was done and by whom

Scope

What we deliberately do not do

Being specific about the edges is not modesty — it is how you avoid an engagement that disappoints someone. These four stay with your firm, permanently.

We do not file returns

T1, T2, GST/HST, PST and WCB filings stay with your firm. We keep the underlying ledger accurate and reconciled so the filing position is supportable — the return itself is yours to review and submit.

We do not provide assurance

No audits, no review engagements, no compilation reports. apar is not a licensed public accounting firm, and bookkeeping support is not an assurance service.

We do not contact your clients

We work behind your firm. We do not email, call or advise your clients, and we do not solicit them — during the engagement or after it ends.

We do not sign off on financial statements

Professional judgment, client advice and sign-off belong to your firm. We prepare the file to the point where your review is fast.

Software

We work in your stack, not ours

Nobody wants a migration as the price of getting help. We work inside the platforms your firm already runs, at whatever permission level you set.

  • QuickBooks Online
  • Xero
  • Sage
  • Dext
  • Hubdoc

Running something else? Ask on the call — it is usually a short answer in either direction.

Start with one file.

Put one client file through a single period at the standard rate. You review the close package and decide whether there is a second. That is the entire commitment.