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Navigate Life with your personal Financial MAP from Votum Accounting

Discover the freedom and peace of mind of a life uninterrupted by financial stress with our personalized Financial MAP

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Step 1: Assess

Know Where You Are

Step 2: Identify

Know Where You Want To Be

Step 3: Chart

Know The Right Path to Get There
Financial MAP

Management
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    Lifestyle Needs Assessment

    A lifestyle needs assessment is a process used to properly identify your current living requirements. This assessment is useful for building an accurate budget based on your actual economic reality as well as identifying your income requirements
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    Personal Bookkeeping

    Our personal bookkeeping is designed to ensure that you’re on course every month and includes monthly comparisons of budget to actual as well as calculating tax and savings allocations.
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    Corporate Bookkeeping

    Ensuring proper corporate recordkeeping is critical to the financial health of every business. Not only is it valuable for tax compliance but also for calculating tax estimates, managing cashflow and ensuring critical financial goals are being met.
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    Budgeting

    Our unique budgeting process is one of a kind. Specifically designed to be simple, practical and relevant every month, our budgets ensure spending remains at a sustainable level ensuring long term financial health.
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    Payroll

    Proper management of payroll remittances and filings is an important aspect of any business. It also is strictly reviewed by CRA therefore ensuring proper and timely information is critical in payroll requirements. At Votum we can calculate and file your company’s payroll or teach you how to do it yourself.
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    GST

    Proper calculation of GST is essential to any business operating in Canada. GST requirements are complicated and unforgiving to individuals who don’t comply and so our role as your accountant is very critical in the area of GST.
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    Tax Instalments

    At Votum we will provide both instruction and estimates regarding corporate and personal tax installments as well as GST.

Accounting
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    Personal Tax Return

    Filing a personal tax return isn’t necessarily the most complicated task and many individuals are able to do this by themselves or with the assistance of a software program. But as life gets more complicated, the tax returns do as well and that is where a professional firm like Votum can be hugely valuable to ensure accuracy, tax minimization and peace of mind.
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    Corporate Tax Return

    Filing a corporate tax return is a complicated process in which mistakes can be costly. At Votum we strive to provide corporate tax returns that have been thoroughly prepared while minimizing the preparation costs by focusing on the practical and beneficial aspects to our clients
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    CRA Representation

    As a Votum client if you ever get a call from CRA you don’t need to fear. We will talk to them on your behalf and ensure all questions are properly answered. By doing this we appease CRA’s need for clarity and minimize the audit risk of our clients.
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    CRA Audits

    Audits are the single most stressful aspect of accounting for clients and it’s our job to minimize the stress of the audit through personally handling all CRA inquiries. Although audits can’t be avoid entirely they can be minimized through proper recordkeeping, tax filing and responding to reviews. As always our goal is to ensure you pay no more taxes than you're required and often that requires us to defend the accuracy of your records and interpretation of law with CRA agents who may not have this same interest.
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    Personal Financial Statements

    Personal financial statements are valuable tools for identifying strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities in the management of personal resources.
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    Corporate Financial Statements

    For many small businesses financial statements are only useful for filing with CRA however at Votum we do our best to explain the information contained in these statements so that our clients can make sound financial decisions.
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    Notice to Reader Engagements

    There are three types of engagements financial accountants do; Audit, Review and Notice to Reader. The only difference between them is the amount of effort the end user requires the accountant to verify the accuracy of the number. For most owner-operator businesses a Notice to Reader engagement is appropriate as well as the cheapest alternative.

Planning
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    Integrated Financial Planning

    Too often planning is completed by advisors who specialize in one area (investments/insurance/estate) but don’t have the full financial picture. At Votum our Integrated Financial Plans are designed to include all aspects of your life. Our role isn’t to replace your advisors but to assist you and them in understanding all the implications of a financial decision.
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    Tax Planning

    It is important at Votum to ensure we take a step back to ensure the tax implications of decisions are properly looked at. Our goal with every client is to ensure that they don’t pay any more in tax than required and that because of our complex tax system it involves properly planning.
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    Debt Planning

    Debt is a heavy burden that is easy to get into and hard to get out of. Very few individuals have your financial condition at heart when offering debt as a solution. At Votum our goal is to educate you on the financial implication of a certain debt decision and assist you in planning out how and when to your debt.
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    Retirement Planning

    Planning for retirement can be a daunting task for any individuals. At Votum we looked at all aspects of retirement with our plans including long term tax implications of investments options. Many people find themselves reaching the stage of retirement and wondering “Is there enough to make it.” We are able to clearly answer that question for individuals and allow them to make the necessary course adjustments that ensure they get to focus their retirement on their family and not their finances.
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    Estate Planning

    It is important for every individual to plan their estate accordingly with up to date wills and properly structuring their assets to transition cleanly to the next generation.
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    Career Planning

    Whether individual are fresh out of high school or forty years old and looking for a change at Votum we look at the financial implications of career changes. We also have resources for individuals trying to understand their own strengths in the workplace in order to maximize their value to others and increase their own earning potential.
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    Business Planning

    Very few businesses properly plan, implement and evaluate. This is a reality. And because of this most experience both the loss of opportunity and the risk of implosion. At Votum we can assist and business owner with preparing a business plan that includes financial projections. We can also assist in the creation of systems to track and evaluate your progression through the plan.
Votum Foundation

At Votum ten percent of our revenues are committed to support entrepreneurs in developing economies through microfinance loans as part of our mandate to improve the financial condition of every individual.

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    Pang

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Kaffo

    Kaffo

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Matete

    Matete

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Narine

    Narine

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Rosa

    Rosa

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Maximiliana

    Maximiliana

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Francis

    Francis

    Microfinance Loans

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  • Maribela

    Maribela

    Featured Category Microfinance Loans

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Why Choose Us

For Purpose Company
Our work is our life’s mission…not a method of means. As an organization our purpose is to improve the financial condition of every individual…that includes you

STRESS FREE FINANCES
Proper financial management results in stress free finances. Through proper planning and financial management we work within your means to achieve your goals and minimize risks resulting in substantially decreased stress

PERSONAL GUIDE
We aren’t a coach that stands on the sidelines, instead more like guide who take you where you want to go. Rather than throwing some tools at you and sending you on your way we journey with you all the way to ensure your safe arrival.

What Makes Votum Different

At Votum we view our clients like a Captain of a ship who hires us to navigate the financial seas.  You tell us where you want to go and we get you there safely; not only plotting out the best way to get there but more importantly journeying with you the entire way.  This perspective drastically changes our role and responsibilities when compared to a coach, advisor or financial "guru".

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What Our Clients Say

  • Jordan and Caitlyn White
    Finally!! An accounting firm designed to actually help our financial condition!
  • Becka and Bryan Heck
    Owners, Twitchy Finger Photography
    We are a small business that thought we could do it all. Well we learned that growing a business and doing it all doesn't work. When we met Kenton we realized that his small business was made for us. He helped us get on track for savings and getting out of debt. The stress has decreased to the point that we can focus on growing our businesses and not concerning ourselves with complicated bookkeeping. Votum makes it easy.
  • Maroun C. OwnerMTC Contracting
    Working with Kenton has substantially improved our financial health. So much so that even our banker commented how surprised he was!
  • Kyle Makila Owner, Invequity Homes
    Votum's assistance in finance and accounting management drastically improved the course of our company.
  • Top 85 wealthiest people have a net worth equal to the bottom 3.5 billion. How poor does 1/2 the world have to be for that math to work?
    Wed Jan 29 17:02:10 +0000 2014
  • Excited about today's microloan that went to help Narine - a 25 year old mother of two from Armenia with her tuition.
    Wed Dec 04 23:04:55 +0000 2013
  • 3 happy, polite and helpful CRA agents in one day!!! I'm buying a lotto ticket. JK. Happy to see the improvements. Good work guys.
    Tue Dec 03 18:46:47 +0000 2013
  • Been working hard on the Votum website with @chadtverity
    Sat Nov 23 00:23:33 +0000 2013
  • National Endowment for Fin. Ed. - 70% of people who receive a financial windfall (e.g. win lottery) lose that money within a few year. WOW
    Tue Sep 24 17:02:45 +0000 2013
  • Super excited! Made first Votum microloan today on http://t.co/Wegv157yac. #makeadifference
    Wed Sep 04 22:04:27 +0000 2013
  • Excited to start twitter today!
    Sun Jul 14 15:42:56 +0000 2013

Contact Us

  • Votum Accounting Inc.
  • 443 Barrett Dr.
  • Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
  • T4R 1M2
  • Phone: (403) 304-9786
  • Fax: (403) 290-8327
  • [email protected]

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