Sharon's Corner

Choosing Your Year End Date
You decided to start a new business and incorporated it too. If you didn’t see a lawyer or accountant during this process, you likely chose a ...

What to Expect When You Are Incorporated?
We are geared to know about personal tax time. Employers issue a T4 based on the calendar year and we file our taxes on or before April 30 eac...

5 Helpful Hints…Not Just for Tax Time!
The subject of tax is vast and often confusing for most. Here are a few tax tips that will help you, not just this year, but in the future as ...

Backups – Just DO It!
The scariest day of my career and running my business happened this year. It was mid-March and the middle of tax season. My server crashed. B...

Planning & Budgeting – What’s The Point?
This might surprise you but I do not plan nor do I budget. Well I didn’t until recently. Even when I started my business 4 years ago, I had to...

Employment Standards and YOU
A few weeks ago I attended an employment standards seminar at Small Business BC. Although this is not an area I specialize in, I am often aske...