Local · Cambridge
Bookkeeping services in Cambridge
Books that keep up with a shop floor — job costs tracked, HST filed on time, payroll run clean — for Cambridge's manufacturers, machinists, and trades, from a team based right here in Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge.
At a glance
AccruBooks is based in Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge and serves Cambridge businesses. Monthly bookkeeping starts at$200/month with HST filings included — flat, quoted in writing after one short call. The team is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, certified in bookkeeping & payroll management, with CPAs on the team. Call (226) 988-4584 or book a 15-minute call.
What you get
The monthly rhythm
The same service that powers our monthly bookkeeping everywhere: everything below happens without you asking, every month, for one flat fee starting at $200/month.
Why local
Built for how Cambridge shops actually run
Cambridge is the industrial backbone of the tri-city area — machine shops, toolmakers, fabricators, contractors, and manufacturers where the real work happens on a floor, not behind a desk. That means books with layers most bookkeepers aren't built for: raw material and finished-goods inventory, job costs that need to tie back to a specific contract, equipment purchases and CCA, payroll for a crew, and WSIB obligations that don't show up in a typical service business. That's the work we're built for: certified in bookkeeping and payroll management, CPAs on the team when a question outgrows the ledger, and a price list you can read on the website before you ever pick up the phone.
Year-end doesn't have to be a separate scramble with a separate firm — year-end and tax returns run off the same books we keep monthly, under one roof. Not sure what shape your books are in right now? The free 2-minute books health check will tell you honestly, and the guides cover the HST, payroll, and deduction questions Cambridge shop owners ask us most.
Questions
Cambridge owners usually ask
We carry inventory and run job costing — can you handle that?
Yes. Shops and manufacturers that track raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods, or that need costs tied back to individual jobs, are exactly the kind of books this service is built around. We set QuickBooks up so your categorization actually reflects how the shop runs, then keep it reconciled every month.
Do you only work with Cambridge businesses?
No — Cambridge is part of home turf, but we serve the whole Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge area and businesses across Canada — U.S. companies can come on board too, for bookkeeping only. Everything runs through QuickBooks and a secure document portal, so it doesn’t matter whether the work happens on the shop floor or the office upstairs.
What does bookkeeping cost for a shop with payroll and inventory?
Our monthly bookkeeping starts at $200/month, with HST filings included rather than billed as an extra. Shops with payroll runs, inventory movement, and higher transaction volume typically sit above that floor — the quote builder on this site gives you a real number in about two minutes, no email required.
Can you run payroll and handle WSIB for our crew?
Payroll runs through QuickBooks as part of the service. If you’ve got employees on the floor, WSIB registration and reporting is a separate obligation from bookkeeping itself — we’ll flag what applies to your setup, but the registration and coverage decisions are yours to make with WSIB directly.
How do we start?
A 15-minute call, ideally with whatever you’ve got on hand — QuickBooks access, a spreadsheet, even a shoebox of receipts. We’ll tell you plainly what shape the books are in and quote the work before touching anything. Months behind gets quoted up front as catch-up, then the monthly service takes over from there.
Talk to a bookkeeper who gets the shop floor.
One call, no sales pitch: we look at the books, tell you what shape they're in, and quote the work in plain numbers.