A & O Tax & Accounting Services Ltd.

Located in Dartmouth, Suite 102 Evergreen Plaza, Nova Scotia, Canada
A & O Tax & Accounting Services Ltd. was established in 1994. Since then we have developed a large and growing portfolio of satisfied clients.

Included in our list of credits are contracts with:

• Human Resources Development Canada consulting for new business startup entrepreneurs.
• Black Business Initiatives providing recording keeping training and accounting services to new entrepreneurs.
• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) preparing full business plans for its clients.
• Providing consulting, training and accounting services to a long list of small businesses including fishing and farming operations.
• Hundreds of personal income tax clients.

''We Are The Small Business Specialists
The First You Should Call And The Last You Will Need.''

''The Small Business Specialists''

A & O Tax & Accounting Services Ltd. is a sole proprietorship owned and operated Ben Patey, ICIA,(Guild of Industrial Commercial & Institutional Accountants) CBA (Certified Business Accountant).
Ben has over twenty years of business experience, including many years in banking. This puts him in a unique position to help his clients. He clearly understands the bank lending process and has been instrumental in helping his clients prepare all the necessary documentation for business loan applications.
By successfully operating his own business Ben has come to understand the financial concerns and needs of all types of businesses.
Ben has also worked for a large farming operation where he gained valuable experience in farm-related cash accounting procedures. He is also experienced in tax accounting for the fishing industry.
A graduate of Algonquin College's Business Accounting Program, Ben continues to keep up-to-date on the most effective ways to aid his clients in their accounting needs. Outsourcing your bookkeeping and accounting requirements will provide you with professional services at reasonable rates while saving you costly employee benefits. Doing your own record keeping can be frustrating and takes valuable time from production and sales.

Key features offered by A & O:

• Accounting and Management Services
• Bookkeeping - Computerized & Manual
• Financial Statement Preparation
• Tax Return Preparation including GST/HST, Income tax Returns - All types of Businesses, Personal (Canadian & US Returns), Estate & Trust Returns for Deceased Persons
• Cash Flow Analysis & Statement Preparation
• Business Plan Development
• Marketing Plan Development
• Computerized Payroll Preparation and Reporting
• Accounting Software Installation and Training

Benefits of choosing A & O:

• Good record keeping helps profits grow by providing good management control
• Show progress and identify weaknesses
• Timeliness prevents costly penalties
• Match expenses to income fluctuations
• Plan for success

Whether you are providing a service or selling a product, to enjoy good growth you need to increase sales. This can be achieved with the use of a good Marketing Plan;

Computerized payroll is time saving and helps to ensure your remittances are made in time to avoid penalties and interest.

Ben prides himself in the area of computerized accounting and he is proficient in the use of the most popular accounting software. He can aid a business in computerizing its accounting systems by providing consulting and training services.

As an option, you can let Ben Patey of A & O Tax & Accounting Services Ltd. get the tax ''monkey'' off your back by maintaining your financial records to ensure all your tax reports are completed on time. Timely reporting not only saves you money in penalties and tax interest it also reduces your risk of being audited. The money we save you in interest and late filing penalties helps to cover our fees. Who would you rather pay: the government for nothing or a professional for a valuable service?

Vacations, statutory holidays and employer share of payroll remittances will add a minimum cost of 14% to your payroll expenses. Besides these expenses there is the cost of paying Workers Compensation, sick time, and other employee considerations which cost you money and lost productivity.

Some businesses do need full or part time accounting staff, but do you?

Probably next to Income Tax and HST penalties and interest on late reporting the biggest non-productive expense incurred by most small businesses is caused by miscalculations in payroll remittances. This also results in penalties and interest.

You can eliminated these non-productive expenses by having A & O Tax & Accounting Services Ltd. computerized systems handle your payroll for you.

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