Accountant for Cochrane businesses

Trades and small operators carrying their own paperwork

Cochrane passed 39,397 residents in 2025 on Alberta Regional Dashboard figures, a rise of close to 23 percent across five years. Much of that growth is residential, and the businesses serving it are the ones that tend to carry their own paperwork: trades, small contractors, shops, and service operators where the owner is also the person doing the invoicing at the end of a long day.

That is usually where things slip. Not the work, the recordkeeping around it. GST periods get missed, receipts pile up unsorted, and payroll remittances become something to deal with later. HBT takes that off the owner, prices the catch up separately from the ongoing work so you can see both, and then keeps the filings on a schedule rather than letting them collect.

What a Cochrane engagement usually covers

How the work begins

1. 1

   Step 1: Show us the backlog

   What is late, how far back it goes, and what records still exist.

2. 2

   Step 2: Two prices, clearly separated

   One for clearing the backlog, one for keeping things current afterwards.

3. 3

   Step 3: Current, then kept current

   The catch up filed first, then a monthly or quarterly cycle that holds.

Can you clear a backlog of GST and bookkeeping for a Cochrane business?

Yes. A cleanup or catch up starts at $500 and historical reconstruction at $750, priced on the volume and condition of the records. GST returns start at $175. The backlog is quoted separately from any ongoing monthly work, so you can see what each part costs before agreeing to either.