A Winnipeg bookkeeper who has sat in the controller’s chair.

Most bookkeepers learn bookkeeping. I learned what businesses actually do with their numbers, because for fifteen years I was the one they did it with.

I have held Controller, Director of Finance, and Financial Analyst roles at roughly ten companies across many different industries. I have built management reports that owners used to make real decisions. I have closed month-ends under pressure, untangled messy ledgers, presented to boards, and watched what happens to a business when its numbers are reliable, and what happens when they are not.

That breadth is the product. A specialist has seen one kind of business a hundred times. I have seen many kinds of businesses from the inside, at the senior level, and that perspective comes with every set of books I keep. When your numbers move, I have usually seen that movie before, and I can tell you how it tends to end.

I hold a CPA designation and an MBA in Finance from the University of Manitoba. I started Advantage Books because Winnipeg small businesses deserve better than the choice they usually face: pay CPA firm rates for junior work, or hand the books to someone with no designation and no accountability. There is a better option. It is the experienced person, working directly with you, at a price a small business can plan around.

I have also served on not-for-profit boards, including as a volunteer Board Treasurer, so I know first-hand the reporting that boards and funders expect and what it takes to keep an organization accountable to both.

I work from my home office in Winnipeg. When you call, I answer. When you ask who is doing your books, the answer is the person you met on day one.

Meet me over a free conversation