Accounting and Auditing
Cooper & Company, and predecessor firms have been providing exceptional accounting, and assurance services to clients based in Toronto and surrounding area since the 1970s. Over the years, the firm has provided support for a wide range of industries, meeting diverse client needs, while maintaining rigorous standards.
Cooper & company's staff is the most vital asset in our assurance and accounting department. Our team is comprised of highly skilled, dedicated, and motivated individuals who combine their creativity and experience to provide every client with the highest level of service. Our staff is focused on understanding the client's needs as opposed to simply generating reports, providing clients with maximum value on every engagement. Cooper & Company has a low turnover, with most employees having been with the firm for multiple years. As a result, the same employees will be working on your engagement for years, allowing our clients to develop a comfort level with multiple members of their assurance team.
Our partners stay highly involved with each engagement, keeping an open line of communication to the client to ensure client satisfaction. Furthermore, our competitive rate structure, and personal approach to each engagement ensures that we build and maintain strong professional relationships with our clients.
Small and Medium Sized Businesses
Cooper & Company understands that owner managed small and medium sized businesses have unique needs. These needs require your accountant to appreciate and listen to the issues that go beyond the regular operations of the company. Whether the issue is succession planning, operating a business with family members, or partnership disputes, Cooper & Company realizes that there is more to business than pure economic decisions.
Our firm has a long history of helping owner managed businesses prosper. We help you establish personal and corporate financial planning, that is essential to the survival of an owner managed business. We work closely with other advisors, including lawyers and financial advisors, to ensure that our clients are getting the services that benefit their individual circumstances. Some of our services that are tailored towards small business are:
- Bookkeeping assistance
- Cash-flow analysis
- Conflict resolution
- Cost and financial analysis
- Financial statement preparation
- Forecasts and projections
- Succession planning
- Tax planning and compliance
Management Consulting
While clients might come to us for our accounting, assurance, and tax services, it is in our management consulting services that they often find the most comfort. With the vast experience our firm has accumulated working with companies from a variety of industries, Cooper & Company has been able to differentiate itself in the market place by being able to help clients identify and solve their unique needs.
Business today can be very unpredictable, and risks and opportunities arise with little warning. When they do, having someone there who can help you analyze the situation, search for solutions to risks, or ways to make opportunities happen, can be a valuable tool.
We communicate with management to find the solutions to your needs. Whether you need assistance with a financing proposal or just a qualified opinion on major decisions, Cooper & Company?s experience and knowledge can be a vital addition to your management team.
Financial and Estate Planning
Planning for the future is something that everyone must do. Cooper & Company assists its clients in planning for the future by structuring its estate and financial holdings in innovative and creative ways to ensure that your plans today are carried out properly in the future.
We are looking long term when we assist our clients in finding a structure for their business holdings that provides tax efficiency while still maintaining maximum flexibility to deal with future changes in circumstances. If your current structure is no longer adequately meeting your needs, Cooper & Company will help you restructure and find a structure that better meets your needs.
We plan for every client individually, so that the business structure matches their business and personal needs. Whether you plan on selling your business in the future, passing it on to a future generation in your family, or dissolving it after it has met your short term needs, Cooper & Company will help you find the structure that matches your individual needs.
Taxation
Cooper & Company understands that tax planning is an integral part of both your company's sustained success and your personal long term future. As a result, all of our accountants are well trained in taxation. The Income Tax Act is amended frequently, creating new planning opportunities for tax savings. When we work with a client, we assist them in searching for opportunities for tax savings, as well as common errors that can lead to significant tax liabilities.
However not every client is the same, and tax planning must match your desired goals. It does no good to help a client save taxes by reducing their personal cash flow below their personal expenses. At Cooper & Company, we communicate with our clients, find out their business and personal goals, and come up with a realistic tax plan that allows them to minimize taxes while maintaining their personal standard of living.