Most people come to us in one of three situations. The books are behind and CRA is asking questions, the business has outgrown whoever was handling the bookkeeping, or the numbers just don't tell them anything useful anymore. We fix all three, and make sure you don't end up there again.
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28 customer reviews
Robert Chester
As a web design agency owner, I need to focus on my clients' projects, not on reconciling books and navigating corporate taxes. Partnering with VertAcc Solutions has been fantastic. Their accounting team is incredibly detail-oriented, highly responsive, and made our corporate tax filing completely stress-free. It is a massive relief knowing our monthly bookkeeping is in the hands of absolute professionals who understand service-based businesses. Beyond the great team, the VertAcc platform acts as an amazing "everything finances" solution for us. It seamlessly automates the manual data entry and gives me a centralized, real-time view of my company's financial health all in one place. I highly recommend VertAcc if you want reliable, modern, and completely stress-free accounting support! More...
Markhem Laguard
Working with VertAcc Solutions has been an absolute game-changer for our business. I initially reached out for help managing our corporate tax filings and ongoing bookkeeping, and they have completely exceeded my expectations.
I have to give a massive shoutout to Gus. He isn't just an accountant; he truly acts like a partner in our business. His depth of knowledge regarding corporate tax strategy is incredible, but what really sets him apart is how genuinely invested he is in our success. Gus took the time to patiently walk us through every complex financial decision and was incredibly helpful in proactively finding ways to optimize our tax position. You can tell he actually cares about the businesses he works with, which is incredibly rare to find.
The other major highlight is the VertAcc platform itself. Their automated accounting software is nothing short of amazing. It completely removed the manual data entry grind from our day-to-day operations. Having all our bookkeeping centralized on their intelligent platform means we have real-time visibility into our finances, and it essentially put our back-office on autopilot. Between Gus’s dedicated expertise and their incredible technology, I highly recommend VertAcc Solutions to any business looking to streamline their finances.
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Inna Tsinman
Pleasure to work with. Responsive, professional & supportive.
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Lisa Coutu
Transitioning to a new software is daunting, but I felt confident and empowered after my training sessions. A tool is only useful if you know how to use it! I appreciate the help that Gus and his team provided. More...
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Kishore Varadharajan
I love Gus and his efficiency. The man is a true professional. Anyone would be lucky to engage him and have him provide his services. I have my own law firm in Ontario and Gus has opened my eyes on accounting so much more than I give him credit for. More...
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Teri Morrow
VertAcc Solutions has been instrumental in giving us the confidence to manage our legal software and legal accounting needs with invaluable one on one and hands on training. They are extremely knowledgeable and provided so many useful tips and tricks on top of the basics that will ensure our compliance with Law Society and CRA requirements. Fast response times to questions and issues, additional information was delivered almost immediately upon request. Have been easily able to book time with Gus or Olesia even during peak tax season in March. Both were also incredibly patient and kind when assisting through technical issues or errors made, and celebrated our successes. More...
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namrata sood
Gus and Olesia were incredibly helpful during my LEAP accounting training. They were patient, knowledgeable, and took the time to explain everything clearly. What really stood out was how they went beyond the basic training to ensure I fully understood the system and could apply it confidently in my practice. Their support made the whole learning process smooth and much more efficient. Highly recommend their guidance for all your accounting needs for Lawyers atleast. More...
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aditi Kelkar
I’m running short of words to express my gratitude for Gus and his team for the comfort they have given me during the transition of the software. They have gone above and beyond to help me with teaching accounting software and reconciliation process which is a sensitive subject for any lawyer who is practicing in Ontario or any province of Canada.Gus, I know I have said it multiple times but it is only because of you I feel confident that I have a backup when I have moved with a new software.I wish you the best and keep doing a great work ❤️ More...
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Ruth McLean
I had the pleasure of working with Gus of VertAcc Solutions in the transition from pcLaw to Leap and Quickbooks. I was extremely impressed with the level of service provided. From the very beginning, Gus demonstrated remarkable patience, taking the time to understand my specific needs and concerns.I've recently been working with Olesia and have consistently received prompt responses and valuable advice. More...
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Tim Moore
Tax Preparation
I found vertacc thru bark.com and couldn't be happier
From the first call they are professional and extremely helpful it getting a new company off the ground the support is beyond expectation I feel I have found more than a accountant I have found a partner that will help me understand taxes and my business model
Vlad Gvozdic
Accounting
Easy going, explained everything and was quick.
Matt
Great experience dealing with Vertacc Solutions. I highly recommend their services. Great value and highly responsive.
Alex Matiski
I wish I began working with Gus years ago.
I found him by chance via Bark when I was looking for someone to help me solve some problems I have encountered in QB.
He exposed many other mistakes I have made and helped me fix them, giving me future advise for the next year, which was very helpful.
Gus is very patient and clear and gave me the confidence I needed. I am so thankful to have found him!
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Victor
Thank you so much Gus, you saved my business and you didn't take advantage of me!
Stephen Young
Gus is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to bookkeeping and business finances. Highly recommend!
Brett Sinclair
Gus is professional, highly knowledgable and takes a deep interest in providing very personal service to all his clients. He has an excellent understanding of business in general and keeps current on changes in laws and the economic climate . I refer every tax client that needs bookkeeping help to VertAcc Solutions because of him and will continue to do so. More...
Eric
Gus not only has helped me keep all my accounting straight, he has been a tremendous source of small business knowledge and advice, he was also preparing our returns for the last few years. I attribute a lot of our family business success to him, thanks again! More...
Amelia
Gus has been managing my books since I first started my business (about a year and a half ago). He has not only helped me know where my business finances are at, but also helped me to remain profitable and have all my ducks in a row. Accounting used to seem very daunting but I feel peace of mind knowing he's got me covered. I highly recommend him! More...
Brenda K
Gus, thank you sooooo much!!!!! What an amazing experience I had! My business was affected by the current COVID 19 shutdown. I reached out to my bank to apply for the government loan support and I have been told that I have to present my financials and tax returns. I have been behind on filing my taxes and financials. I contacted multiple accounting firms to get me up to date and I was shocked by the prices I have been quoted and the timeline to get it done. I was drowning in debt and needed the funding ASAP. I contacted Vertacc and Gus was very accommodating and compassionate, he only charged me 1/2 of the price I have been quoted and managed to finalize everything in 24 hours. Thanks to Gus my business will survive until the shutdown is over. You are the best!!! Stay safe! More...
Vinny Borges
Business Accounting Services
Quickbooks and accounting expert. Gus helped me automate my accounting, went beyond with bank account advices and amazing support.
Highly recommend to anyone looking for accounting solutions.
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Trish
Very satisfactory service!!!
I hired them to move my accounting records from Simply Accounting to Quickbooks online and it was a smooth process.
I learned a lot through the transition and I found out there are very simple shortcuts and tools to record my expenses. They also recommended Salesforce to track our sales and connect it to Quickbooks.
Thank you Olesia and Gus, amazing couple!
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Pedro Martinez
Great service and affordable!
Thank you Gus :)
Kim
4 months ago I decided to start a new business as a health consultant. I didn't know how to register a business as a freelancer, so I reached out to Gus. We met for a discovery session and he was very professional and knowledgable. I knew right away that I found my guy. He helped me to register my business and Quickbooks online for invoicing and expenses. He just filed my GST last month, completed my bookkeeping, and produced reports to explain my position. This has been a very enjoyable experience. I strongly recommend VertAcc and working with Gus! You will never look back! More...
Alicia
Vertacc Solutions could not make things easier for me and my business. My books were a mess and they quickly turned that around and give me monthly financial statements so I can see how my business is performing. Also, Gus makes himself personally available to help or answer ANY questions. I highly recommend! More...
Meghan R
Incredibly impressed with the service: knowledgeable, professional and personable. If there was a way to leave 10 stars, I definitely would! Alicia patiently answered all my crazy questions on how to properly set up a business, offering free alternatives wherever possible. She also gave me some tips and suggestions that's really paid off in spades! Other quoted me 5 times more for the same service. I will be coming back and referring Vertacc services to others. More...
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Real Estate Costa blanca
I registered for Quickbooks Online webinar yesterday and it was an amazing experience. Olesia was so professional and helped me to set up the account based on my business workflow. I had a previous experience with another accountant setting up my Quickbooks Online account and it was a disaster. It is important that your accountant understands your business activity to recommend the right set up. Olesia took the time to understand my business and asked the right questions. I am so impressed with their attention to details that I decided to sign up for their bookkeeping services. I am excited to start working with them in the New Year. Thank you guys for this eye opening experience. I wish you all the best and I look forward working with you. Happy New Year! More...
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FlatFee Movers
I have been with Vertical Accounting for almost a year now. Always fast to respond, kind and easy to talk to, they are not just about numbers. They genuinely care about your business and are happy to see when you do well. Strongly recommend them! More...
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What kind of accounting services do you provide?
We're a complete back office, which means you can hand us as much or as little as you want and it all sits with one team.
Day to day, that's bookkeeping and monthly close, bank and credit card reconciliation, accounts payable and receivable, and payroll with all the source deductions and remittances handled on schedule. At year end it's your financial statements, corporate tax returns (T2), personal returns (T1), self-employed returns, GST/HST, and T4, T4A and T5 slips, all filed through CRA's authorized E-FILE channel as an Authorized Electronic Filer.
We also do the work a lot of firms would rather not touch. Catch-up and cleanup when the books are years behind. Back-filing unfiled returns and voluntary disclosures. CRA notices, reviews, audits, objections and appeals, where we correspond with the agency directly on your behalf. Trust accounting for law firms, reconciled monthly to your Law Society's standard. Multi-entity groups, holding company structures, foreign income and multi-currency books.
On top of that sits the advisory work, which is really the point of keeping clean records in the first place: budgeting and forecasting, cash flow planning, management reporting, financial optimization and restructuring, business plans and financing support, and government grant and funding applications.
And because most accounting problems are really systems problems, we handle incorporation, CRA account registration, QuickBooks Online migration and training as an Elite ProAdvisor, LEAP implementation for law firms, and connecting the apps around your books so information gets entered once instead of three times.
If you're not sure which of those you need, that's normal. Tell us what's going on and we'll tell you.
Why is it so important for businesses to hire a great accountant?
Because the difference between an adequate accountant and a great one almost never shows up in the fee. It shows up two or three years later, in money you either kept or didn't.
An adequate accountant files your return. It goes in on time, it's technically correct, and you never hear from them in between. A great accountant is looking at the same information and noticing things: that your margins have been quietly sliding for three quarters, that you're structured in a way that's costing you every year, that a receivable has been sitting unpaid since March, that you're about to cross a threshold that changes your obligations. None of that is on a tax return. All of it is in the numbers, and it only surfaces if someone is actually reading them.
Then there's the downside protection, which people underestimate until it happens to them. Missed remittances draw penalties immediately. A CRA review handled badly gets expensive fast. Books that were kept carelessly for years become someone's problem eventually, usually at the worst moment, when you're selling the business or applying for financing or standing in front of a lender who wants three years of clean statements you cannot produce. We've been called in to fix all of those, and the repair always costs more than doing it properly would have.
The thing most owners tell us afterwards is that they didn't realize how much mental weight they'd been carrying. Not knowing where you stand is genuinely exhausting, and it makes people avoid their own finances, which makes it worse. A good accountant takes that off you. You stop guessing, you stop dreading the mail, and you start making decisions with actual information behind them.
That's the real argument. Not compliance, which is the floor. It's that your books, kept well and read properly by someone who knows your business, are one of the few tools you have for making the business better. Most businesses are paying for that already and simply not getting it.
What do you love most about your job?
The moment a client stops being afraid of their own numbers.
People arrive here carrying a lot of stress. Unopened CRA envelopes, a year of receipts in a drawer, a business that's clearly making money but somehow never has any. What I enjoy is not the filing itself. It's the conversation a few months later, when someone who used to avoid the topic entirely is asking sharp questions about their margins, or telling me what they want to do next year and asking whether the numbers support it. That's a different person than the one who first called.
The other part I genuinely love is the puzzle. Twenty years in and a set of books that has been kept badly for six years is still an interesting problem. Somewhere in there is a coherent story, and finding it is satisfying every single time.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I'd spent years working inside highly regulated environments, in courts, law firms and international tax, and I kept running into the same thing. Businesses were being charged a great deal of money for work that was slow, opaque and delivered too late to be useful. The information existed. It just reached the owner months after they could have done anything with it.
I also watched good businesses fail for reasons that were visible in their books long before they became fatal, and nobody had told them, because nobody was looking between the annual filings.
So the firm was built around a different idea: that accounting should tell you something while you can still act on it. That's why we eventually built our own platform rather than resigning ourselves to the tools available, and it's why we'd rather have a client for ten years than bill them heavily once. Everything about how we work follows from that.
Why should our clients choose you?
Three honest reasons.
Experience that's been tested. More than twenty years, hundreds of clients and thousands of returns filed, across everything from sole proprietors to multinational groups. We're an Elite QuickBooks ProAdvisor, the highest Intuit tier in Canada, which cannot be bought or applied for and has to be re-earned as the platform changes. We're a CRA Authorized Electronic Filer, and a certified LEAP consultant who has trained over 300 lawyers, judges and executives. When something unusual lands on your file, we've almost certainly seen a version of it before.
You get senior people, and the same ones. Your file is not passed to a junior and reviewed in a hurry at year end. One team handles it start to finish, and you speak to the person who actually knows your business. We answer, including in tax season, and we're not going to bill you for a phone call.
We built the technology, so you get the judgment. Our own platform handles the reconciling, matching and chasing that traditional firms bill hours for, and gives you a live view of your business instead of a report about last year. What that buys you is our attention on the part that actually needs a person: what changed, what it means, and what to do about it.
And underneath all of it, we do what we say we'll do. You'll know what the work costs before it starts, you'll know where your file stands, and every number we give you traces back to the document behind it. Every business we've worked with has left us a five-star review, and that's the part of our reputation we're most careful with.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
Yes. We work remotely with clients across Ontario, throughout Canada and internationally, and for most of our clients the entire relationship runs that way from the first call to the filed return.
Here's what that actually looks like. You send us documents through a secure portal, or we connect directly to your bank feeds, accounting software and receipt capture so most of it flows in automatically without you sending anything at all. Your books live in the cloud, so you and your team can see them any time rather than waiting for us to send something. Returns are signed electronically and filed directly with CRA through the authorized E-FILE channel. Payroll runs on schedule with direct deposit to your staff. When CRA writes to you, we correspond with them on your behalf as your authorized representative, which happens entirely without you needing to be in a room with anyone.
Meetings happen by video or phone, whichever you prefer, and we schedule around your working hours rather than ours. Onboarding is remote too, including QuickBooks migration and training your team on the new setup.
Remote does not mean slower or less personal here. It means your accountant is reachable from wherever you are, your records are current rather than sitting in a filing cabinet, and geography stops being a factor in who you get to work with.
That said, we're based at 1 Rideau Street in Ottawa and we're always glad to meet in person if you're local and would rather do it that way. Some conversations are simply better face to face, and we'll never make you do it over a screen if you don't want to.
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
We follow all standard local health and safety regulations current to 2026.
Bookkeeping, Catch-Up & Specialized Accounting
- Monthly Bookkeeping & Reconciliations: Accurate monthly closes, bank/credit card reconciliations, and AP/AR management to keep your numbers accurate year-round.
- Catch-Up & Cleanups: Rebuilding and correcting backlogged or abandoned books from source documents, no situation is "too far gone."
- Specialized & Multi-Entity Accounting: LEAP-certified trust accounting for law firms, along with multi-currency and multi-entity holding company management.
Tax Preparation, Back-Filing & CRA Representation
- Corporate & Personal Tax: T2 corporate returns, T1 personal returns, self-employed/sole proprietor filings, and GST/HST reconciliations.
- Complex & Niche Tax Filings: Crypto/digital asset cost-base reconstruction, cross-border/international tax, foreign asset reporting, and rental/investment properties.
- CRA Audit Defense & Back-Filing: Full CRA representation for audits, reviews, notices, objections, voluntary disclosures, and multi-year back-filings.
Full-Service Payroll & Compliance
- Turnkey Payroll: Automated pay processing, direct deposits, and pay statements on any schedule.
- Remittances & Year-End: Timely source deductions (CPP/EI/Tax), WSIB/EHT provincial filings, ROE filings, and T4/T4A/T5 reconciliations.
- Worker Setup: Onboarding staff and properly structuring contractor vs. employee classifications to avoid CRA flags.
Software Setup, Migrations & Automation
- QuickBooks Experts: Seamless migrations, chart of accounts setup, and workflow optimization from an Intuit Elite ProAdvisor.
- Legal Tech Setup: End-to-end LEAP implementation, trust accounting configuration, and firm workflow training.
- App Integration: Streamlining receipt capture, invoicing, and platform integrations so your data flows automatically.
Corporate Setup & Strategic Advisory
- Incorporation & Restructuring: Federal/Provincial incorporations, CRA registrations, and corporate group reorganizations.
- Financial Planning & Statements: Year-end financial statements, cash flow forecasting, budgeting, and financing/grant applications.
- Private Client Services: Dedicated family office oversight for high-net-worth households.
- All-in-One Business Growth: Coordinated strategic consultancy, legal network support, and digital services.
