Brownlow Partners is proud to offer our clients across Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara the reliable and skilled accounting services they need to enhance their business. Our team of trusted business advisors and chartered accountants are here to provide informed solutions that will help your business succeed with both its current and future goals. Discover our range of accounting services below:
Assurance & Accounting
Financial Statement Engagements
- Do you want to work with the same professionals each year?
- Do you expect a quick turnaround for your financial reporting information?
- Do you expect your professional advisors to get back to you promptly?
Whether you require an audit, review, compilation engagement or specialized auditing, Brownlow Partners Chartered Professional Accountants works as a team to meet your private business needs, provide you with timely turnaround and superior service. We work closely with your other professional advisors to ensure your financial reporting requirements are completely looked after.
Not-For-Profit Organizations
- How does your organization manage its spending?
- How do you deal with increased competition for memberships and donations?
- Board members help the organization navigate and plan for the future; how do you manage through the changes in board members and treasurers?
As a non profit, we understand that every dollar counts when you are trying to achieve your mission.
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Corporate & Personal Tax
- Are your total taxes, both corporate and personal supported with an integrated plan to minimize/reduce taxes?
- Are you doing business in a foreign market?
- Would you like us to provide alternate tax options/solutions for your consideration?
Our job is to advise you of options available to ensure you are taxed as efficiently as possible. Brownlow Partners Chartered Professional Accountants’ Tax Team is experienced with tax compliance issues from tax return preparation, CRA appeals, foreign reporting and tax planning.
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Reorganization
- Do you wish to introduce new shareholders to your company or amend existing shareholder control?
- Could you separate higher risk operational assets from lower risk investment assets?
- Do you need assistance in understanding your corporate structure and how to use it properly?
- Family Trusts provide an effective method for you to direct corporate income to other individuals or corporations. Have you considered a trust or do you need assistance utilizing an existing trust?
Reorganization of corporate ownership and assets ownership to help achieve your plan for the future can be accomplished in many ways. We can help create a plan to manage this process in a tax effective manner.
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Succession & Estate Planning
- How can you sell assets now for the greatest value and lowest taxation cost?
- What are the taxes that would be paid on your death?
- What action could you take now to significantly reduce those taxes?
Selling some of your assets now, particularly assets that require high maintenance and assets that carry a greater risk, can simplify issues with your estate. Ensuring your Will property reflects your wishes provides clarity and focus to the administration of your estate and the distribution of your assets.
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Improving Your Bottom Line
- How often do you work on your business instead of in the day to day?
- Growth starts with great people, how is your company utilizing employees to meet customer demands and build new customer relationships?
- Are you working harder but not seeing the returns on the bottom line?
We understand as a business owner you make decisions every day that affect the growth and profitability of your company.
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CFO & Advisory
The world is getting more complex
In the face of challenging markets, business owners and managers are under constant pressure to make great decisions in less time, while complying with complex regulatory standards. Here's how our CFO and Advisory Services make a challenging world better for you.
- We leverage 40 years of financial management expertise to grow and improve your business.
- We use our deep knowledge to help you make the best strategic decisions.
- We provide one-stop corporate and personal accounting, reporting, tax, and bookkeeping to meet your needs, including those of your bankers and the compliance requirements of tax
authorities. - We complement and coach your finance and accounting teams so that over time they become more self sufficient.
1. 40 Years of Expertise
Brownlow Partners Inc. was founded in 1980. Since then, we have been engaged as strategic advisors to small and medium-sized businesses in all commercial and industrial sectors and on normal-course and special transactions including management buyouts, joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic turnarounds.
This practical experience and deep expertise means we have the skills to serve as your trusted, all weather advisor.
2. Knowledge for Best Strategic Outcomes
We apply our knowledge to develop creative, thoroughly researched business solutions that will get you to your goals faster.
Once a strategic direction is reached, our experts remain accountable for the delivery of the solution. This means we stay in place to keep your broader team focused, resolve issues and ensure consistency throughout the execution phase.
3. One-Stop Platform to Make Your Business and Professional Life Easier
Your business needs constant tax, accounting and bookkeeping services to comply with Revenue Canada requirements and banking agreements and to ensure timely internal financial reporting, which is key to management success. But you also need similar services to navigate your personal life.
We take care of all of these needs as a one-stop resource. This means consistency, efficiency and convenience.
4. Complement and Coach
We are proactive partners who are deeply invested in your team's success and well-grounded in the realities of your organization. When we join your team, we make it our business to elevate the skills of those around us by sharing our knowledge so that over time, your in-house capabilities are strengthened and put on a path to self-sufficiency.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
- What are the three most important factors that drive value in your company?
- What is your company worth today and what will it be worth in 5 years?
- When do you plan on getting out of your business?
Your business can only be sold for what the buyer is willing to pay.
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Sale of Your Business
Increasing the Value of Your Business and Selling Your Business
If you own your own business, ask yourself these two questions.
- Are you having fun?
- How much longer do you want to do this?
Depending on your answers, you may already be thinking about the sale of your business. Those thoughts will lead to the following key questions that we can help you answer.
- How do I assess the value of my business?
- How do I drive the value of my business higher?
- How do I sell my business?
- How do I minimize the tax and other costs from the sale to maximize what I receive?
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SR & ED
- Do you believe that your entity carries on research or experimental development achieving technological advancement in creating new, or improving existing materials, devices, products or processes?
- Have you applied for SR&ED before and been declined or received less than applied for?
The cost of innovation through research and commercialization can be supplemented with government assisted programs. The Scientific Research and Education Development (SR&ED) is a program that provides financial tax incentives to Canadian entities. We can help with the process to apply for these incentives.
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Taxation in USA
- Is expansion into the United States part of your plan for the future?
- Have your reviewed your corporate structure entry to the United States with a professional advisor?
- Does your company already move products, income or people across borders?
- Are you actively reviewing the compliance required while doing business in the United States?
The taxation of products, income and people takes place every where around the globe, sometimes in the most surprising ways.