When the Books Go Dark: Why Catch-Up Bookkeeping Matters for Canadian Corporations
I have seen it happen more times than I can count. A business owner shows up at my office with a stack of receipts, a half-filled QuickBooks file, and a look that says "I know I am behind." The story is almost always the same. They started the year determined to keep up. Then a big client came in, or a key employee left, or the GST/HST filing deadline crept up faster than expected. The bookkeeping got pushed to the back burner. Now they are staring at a bookkeeping backlog t