Any statement, proved to the cent
Bank and credit card statements read straight from a PDF, a scan or a CSV — then balanced against the statement total, so nothing is quietly dropped or doubled.
Surrey, British Columbia
Accounting software in Surrey
Books for Surrey's construction and trades, agriculture and health care — each client in a company of its own, on its own chart of accounts. Bank and card statements read and proved, 5% GST and 7% PST, and year-end working papers — online or on Windows.
Books in Surrey
What a set of Surrey books has in it
In a city of about 570,000 built on construction and trades and agriculture, a practice is rarely keeping one kind of books. The same bookkeeper has a client on cash receipts and a client on progress billing, and month end has to close both.
The local detail that shows up in the ledger: Surrey has the fastest-growing workforce in the province and a young one, which means a lot of part-time retail and apprenticed trades on the same pay run — and the books have to reflect it rather than flatten it.
Month end starts with the statements, and BooksAuto reads a bank or credit card statement from a PDF, a scan or a CSV and proves it against the statement total before anything is posted. A dropped page or a doubled transaction is caught then, not at year-end. Transactions are coded to the chart of accounts and learn from the corrections you make.
Construction and trades in Surrey
The part of these books that catches people out
Agricultural books run the opposite way round from most. Many basic farm products are zero-rated for GST while nearly everything bought to produce them is taxable, so the return is usually a refund rather than a payment — which makes the input tax credit side the part that has to be coded right, every month, or the refund is wrong.
General Canadian sales-tax treatment, not advice on your own return — and municipal charges vary, so confirm what applies to your business before you file.
Set by the province, not the city
Sales tax behind a Surrey ledger
A Surrey business charges 5% GST and 7% PST — a provincial rule, so the same in every British Columbia town. How the accounts are set up for it, and why the GST and the PST sit on separate ones, is on the British Columbia accounting page.
Payroll is in the same program, so a Surrey client's wages, source deductions and employer cost post themselves into these books on the accounts you chose — nothing re-keyed from a payroll summary.
Accounting features
What you need to keep a set of books in Surrey
Categorized as it comes in
Transactions are coded to the chart of accounts and learn from the corrections you make, so the second month takes a fraction of the first.
GST, HST, PST and QST
The sales tax return comes out of the ledger rather than a spreadsheet, with the working behind every figure and the input tax credits separated out.
Customers, vendors and invoices
Invoices and bills with what is owed and owing, aged, and the payments matched against them.
Reconciliation you can show
Bank reconciliations with the outstanding items listed, so a reviewer can see why the books and the statement differ.
Working papers A–N
The year-end file an accountant actually hands over: lead sheets, the trial balance, the adjusting entries and the support behind each one.
Payroll posts itself into these books, so wages, source deductions and the employer cost land on the right accounts without a journal entry.
Pricing
Accounting software pricing in Surrey
Same price everywhere in Canada — 50% off Payroll for your first year. Accounting firms: $3 Payroll + $3 Bookkeeping per client per month.
Questions
Accounting questions from Surrey
What is different about construction and trades books in Surrey?
Agricultural books run the opposite way round from most. Many basic farm products are zero-rated for GST while nearly everything bought to produce them is taxable, so the return is usually a refund rather than a payment — which makes the input tax credit side the part that has to be coded right, every month, or the refund is wrong.
What sales tax applies to a Surrey business?
A business in Surrey charges 5% GST and 7% PST, the same as the rest of British Columbia. Sales tax is set by the province, not the city — though a municipality may levy its own charge on things like accommodation, which is reported separately from the sales tax.
Can you read my bank statements?
Yes — as a PDF, a scan or a CSV. Each statement is proved against its own closing total before anything is posted, so a missing page or a doubled transaction is caught at the start of the month rather than at year-end.
How much does accounting software cost in Surrey?
The same everywhere in Canada: $10 per company per month, with a 30-day free trial and no per-transaction charge.
Do I need an accountant to use it?
No, though many Surrey businesses share the file with theirs. The year-end working papers are the ones an accountant expects, so handing the file over does not mean rebuilding it.
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