Resources

Free Articles

Here are some helpful articles that we have written to help you manage your books more effectively:

• Bookkeeping Best Practices
  
  
• Documents required to complete your financials (GRAPH)
  
  
• Cash Flow Secrets   
  
  
• How Healthy is your Business?       
  
  
• How to Reconcile your Bank Stmt        
  
  
• Procrastination-Busting Techniques

Free Bookkeeping Templates

 Here are some templates we have created or sourced to help you track your bookkeeping and business management tasks: 

·         Business Templates  a free downloadable Excel spreadsheet with a ton of business templates for you to use, such as a petty cash report, daily cash sheet, bank reconciliation sheet, employee commencement package, HST instructions, and more. We created these for you so we hope you like them. 

·         Business Plan Templates: from the Business Development Bank of Canada. Some other worthwhile resources here, too

 Important Links for BC Small Businesses

 ·         Canada Customs & Revenue Agency: This is the agency’s homepage. (CCRA phone number:  1-800-959-5525)

·         Income Tax & Benefit Amounts: A Canada Revenue Agency fact sheet listing personal income tax and benefit amounts for 2011. 

·         SmallBusinessBC.com: This site is a comprehensive resource with articles and information dealing with all aspects of starting and growing a business in British Columbia. Lots of tax and financial information here.

·         Small Business Toolkit: Another comprehensive resource, focusing more on the “how-to’s” of starting a business. Worth checking out.

·         Canada Business: The federal government’s free resource site for small businesses. Some great research and statistics here.

·          Insurance Brokers: The Canadian Insurance Broker Directory  

Important Links for Companies with Employees

·         Public Statutory Holidays                           

·         Business Tool Kit

·         Employment Standards Branch                 

·         Employment Legislation & Standards in Canada

·         Workers Compensation Board                 

·         Payroll TOD, Tables on Diskette 

·         Managing Employees                                

·         Suggested Disciplinary Procedures

·         Human Resources

·         Women Entrepreneurs of Canada

·         Women Entrepreneurs & the Royal Bank

Other Useful Sites

·         Canadian Bookkeepers Association   
   

·         Canadian Payroll Association

·         Gibsons Chamber of Commerce         

·         Glossary of Business Jargon