The Cambridge accounting practice that’s been lining up numbers since 1983.

It is the designation we practise under. Green & Company is a Registered Professional Accounting (RPA) firm, operating under a permit to provide accounting services to the public as a Certified Accounting Practitioner through the Society of Professional Accountants of Canada (SPAC). Our owner, James D. Green, is an RPA and sits on SPAC’s Board of Directors as Secretary. It is a different designation with its own permit, standards and discipline process — when you hire us, that is exactly who you are hiring.

Basic personal returns start at $80. More involved personal returns — rental properties, self-employment, estates — and business returns are reasonably priced based on complexity, and we quote before we start. If the CRA auto-filed a draft return for you, our review of that draft is a flat $78.

Not safely. Starting in 2025, the CRA automatically submits a bare-bones return for eligible taxpayers who don’t file — built only from the income slips it already has. It doesn’t claim your rent or property taxes, your credits, your deductions or your elections, and even so, you remain fully responsible for its accuracy. Our $78 Auto-File Draft Review imports the draft into professional software, cross-checks it against prior years, and optimizes what it missed. If real complexity surfaces, we move you to full-service preparation starting at $80 — always quoted first.

Compilation engagements under CSRS 4200 — the standard that replaced the old “Notice to Reader” statements. Compilations are non-assurance engagements: we assemble your financial information into professional statements for management, lenders and the CRA. We do not perform audit or review engagements, and we’ll tell you that plainly before any year-end work begins.

Usually two things: a final (terminal) T1 return for the deceased, and T3 trust returns for the estate in the following years — plus the clearances that let an executor distribute safely. Estates are a genuine specialty here: James Green is a Certified Executor Advisor (CEA), and we provide trust and terminal return preparation and professional executor advisory services. Start with a free consultation; bring what you have, and we’ll map the filings. Our Deceased Tax Returns guide (PDF) on the Resources page is a good first read.

Yes. We are a Xero cloud accounting partner and certified advisor, and we work in QuickBooks Online as well — desktop and cloud systems alike. Bookkeeping packages scale with your business: accounts payable and receivable, monthly financial reports, bank and credit card reconciliation, HST/GST filing, ROE preparation and payroll.

Our office is the heritage house at 75 Ainslie Street N in Cambridge, and we serve Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph and surrounding areas. Many clients never need to visit — but the door, and the coffee, are here when you want them.