Ontario · Ottawa
Bookkeeping services in Ottawa
Books reconciled monthly, HST filed on schedule, payroll handled without drama — for Ottawa's contractors, consultants, and service businesses, from a team based in Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge and set up to work with you remotely.
At a glance
AccruBooks serves Ottawa businesses remotely from its base in Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge. 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 monthly bookkeeping we run everywhere else, adapted to nothing in particular — it works the same for a two-person consulting shop as it does for a crew of subcontractors, every month, for one flat fee starting at $200/month.
Why it works for Ottawa
Built for subcontractor and consultant paperwork
A lot of Ottawa's independent work sits a layer or two below the client that actually pays the bill — contractors and consultants billing a prime, a department, or an agency rather than the public directly. That arrangement rewards precision: invoices that match the contract terms, HST charged and remitted correctly, and books that stay reconciled instead of catching up once a quarter. We're not in Ottawa, and we're not going to pretend we are — what we bring instead is Ontario-rules fluency (13% HST, WSIB, CRA remittance schedules) and a remote process that doesn't care where your desk is. If you've got staff on payroll alongside subcontractors, T4/T4A discipline matters even more: slips issued correctly, remittances on your assigned schedule, and nothing miscategorized that trips you up at tax time.
The tax deadlines tool keeps HST, T4, and instalment dates in one place so nothing sneaks up on you, the free 2-minute books health check tells you honestly where your books currently stand, and the guides answer the HST and payroll questions we hear most from Ottawa clients. For the province-wide version of this pitch, see bookkeeping across Ontario.
Questions
Ottawa clients usually ask
Are you actually in Ottawa?
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. AccruBooks is based in Kitchener–Waterloo–Cambridge, and Ottawa clients are served remotely — bank feeds, a secure document portal, and phone or video calls, the same setup we use for every client outside the tri-city area. What you get instead of a local office is an Ontario-fluent bookkeeper who's genuinely reachable and whose pricing is public.
A lot of my invoicing runs through a prime contractor or a government client. Does that change anything?
Not the bookkeeping mechanics, but it raises the bar on paperwork discipline — subcontractor invoices, HST numbers, and payment schedules need to be clean because someone downstream is checking them before they release funds. That is standard monthly bookkeeping done properly: reconciled accounts and statements that hold up if a procurement office or your bank ever wants to see them.
I have a couple of employees plus contractors. Can you handle payroll?
Yes, through QuickBooks. T4s get filed by the last day of February for the prior calendar year, remittances go out on your CRA-assigned schedule, and contractor payments stay separated from payroll from the start so nothing gets miscategorized at year-end.
What does bookkeeping cost for an Ottawa business?
Bookkeeping starts at $200/month, with HST filings included rather than billed separately. Behind on your books already? Catch-up work is quoted up front at the monthly rate plus 40%, with 20% of that credited back once you're caught up — no surprise invoice. The quote builder gives you a real number in about two minutes.
Books that would survive a procurement office asking questions.
15 minutes, no pitch — an honest read on where your books stand and what it would take to hand them off.