Straight-forward tax and accounting guidance.
Practical tax, bookkeeping and accounting guidance for small business owners, incorporated professionals and growing families across Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax, Pickering, Clarington and the rest of Durham Region. Every article is written by a Chartered Professional Accountant, with the math worked out and the CRA references named. We publish when we have something useful to say, not on a content calendar.
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What we're writing about
New articles drop when something changes worth writing about: a CRA update with real impact on Ontario small business owners, a tax-planning move that needs to be made before year-end, a recurring question we keep hearing in client meetings, or a worked example of the math that decides whether to incorporate, choose salary over dividends, or restructure how you pay yourself. Read in any order; the topics stack.
Topics we write about
This blog is a working notebook for owner-managers, incorporated professionals and growing families across Durham Region. Elena and the EK team publish what we wish more clients knew sooner: the deductions people miss, the decisions that cost money when owners wait, the deadlines that creep up at year-end, and the small habits that prevent all three. Every post is written by a CPA, in plain English, with the math worked out. No paywall and no gatekeeping. We name the Durham cities (Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville) where local context matters and skip the generic boilerplate that fills most accounting blogs.
No published article on the topic you need yet? Reach out anyway. Most of what we write starts as a question someone asked at a kitchen table or over a Friday coffee, then ends up on the blog because the same question kept coming up across different Durham Region clients. The blog is an extension of that, run by Elena Kanter, CPA, CA, who started EK after fifteen years inside Big Four and senior corporate finance roles. We work with small businesses, incorporated professionals and personal-tax clients across Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax, Pickering, Clarington and the rest of the GTA, and the questions clients ask in those meetings are usually the questions other Durham Region owners are quietly Googling on a Sunday night.