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Agriculture / Dairy

If ever there was an industry that understood the importance of planning ahead it's farming. Practical accounting and financial advice can help make the right decisions today.

Farming Today For Tomorrow

The agriculture and dairy industry faces unique challenges on the road to profitability. Volatile commodity prices, high distribution costs and increasing competition can all have a tremendous impact on your business results.

If ever there was an industry that understood the importance of planning ahead it's farming. As they say - you reap what you sow! Practical accounting and financial advice can help you make the right decisions today that can set in place the right structures for future succession and importantly minimize the risks with a volatile industry.

How Enns & Company Can Help

At Enns & Company, we understand the range of issues that impact on a farming business and can help you understand the financial ramifications of a multitude of decisions that need to be made.

We can evaluate your assets, business and trust structures, investment portfolios and look at ways to reduce tax payments. Our advisors can prepare and interpret cash flows as well as assess and assist with farm viability and provide advice and assistance with:

  • finance proposals
  • business and strategic planning
  • agricultural investments
  • feasibility studies and reports
  • property development planning
  • general management services
  • property management reporting
  • project evaluations

First Nations

Our firm and our predecessor firm have been providing services to First Nation communities for in excess of 35 years.

Our aboriginal client service practitioners are highly qualified in their functional areas of expertise be it assurance, accounting, financial consulting, or tax. We have invested extensive time and resources to gain an understanding of aboriginal culture, issues, business practices and concerns. We believe in listening to our clients, knowing each one has a unique set of priorities.

Some of the services related to First Nation entities that we have been engaged to provide include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Market – Housing
  • Non – Profit Housing
  • Capital projects
  • Buildings, maintenance, renovations
  • Social development
  • Governance issues
  • Economic development
  • Health services
  • Youth and employment
  • Cultural Programs
  • Aboriginal Rights & Title
  • Administration
  • Recreation
  • Infrastructure programs
  • Feasibility studies
  • Fisheries
  • Trust and endowment funds

Enns & Company offers clients a broad range of fully integrated services in areas that include accounting, assurance and advisory, tax, risk management, business, financial, and human capital consulting. Our professionals create powerful business solutions for first nation organizations with an integrated approach which combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help our clients excel.

We offer the following services to first nations’ organizations:

  • Accounting and Audit Assurance Services
  • Financial Statement Presentation/ Interpretation
  • Planning for Charitable Organizations
  • Governance matters
  • Not-For-Profit Organization Information Returns
  • Goods and Services Tax – Compliance and Planning
  • Internal Control Reviews
  • Systems Reviews
  • Business Consulting and Advisory Services
  • Business plans
  • Preparation of funding proposals

Some engagements that we have been recently involved with include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Providing support for capital funding projects from provincial and federal ministries.
  • Assessment of employee benefits and pensions matters with respect to collective agreements.
  • The securing of institutional funding in regard to the acquisition of land and buildings.
  • Assessment and recommendations for the improvement of critical internal controls.
  • To conference with government agencies with respect to the securing of project funding.

Private and Family Business

Family owned and operated companies face the usual day-to-day business issues as well as a host of complicated and often emotional challenges.

A Personalized Service For Your Family Business

Enns & Company provides comprehensive accounting (link this to accounting), advisory (link this to advisory) and financial advice (link this to financial advise) services for private and family businesses. These are backed by a strong understanding of the ways in which business ownership, management and family relationships often overlap and the complexities and emotional issues this can create. This is becoming particularly important as more family businesses consider their succession or exit plans. 

We are very experienced in working with family business clients to maintain a tight focus on meeting statutory requirements, improving performance, growing business value and achieving lifestyle aspirations. We also regularly form multidisciplinary teams within Enns & Company and with other advisors, such as lawyers, to realize the best outcomes for clients.   

Our services include: 

  • Succession planning
  • Financial advice (link this to financial advise) and retirement income stream planning 
  • Exiting businesses – mergers, sales or listings 
  • Tax advice (link to tax advise)and compliance 
  • Corporate governance / statutory audit 
  • Asset protection 
  • Insurance 
  • Business structuring  
  • Business growth and performance management 
  • Business development  
  • Facilitating meetings and workshops 
  • Assisting with setting up boards 
  • Assessing business risk    

We can also assist you with preparation of board reports, financial statements, all aspects of general tax compliance and specialist tax advice.  

Not-For-Profit

We provide the intelligence and advice to allow not-for-profits to fulfill their mission, manage risk, enhance financial stewardship and protect their tax-exempt status.

Use Our Knowledge To Achieve Your Mission

Enns & Company provides the business intelligence and financial advice to allow you to fulfil your mission, enhance financial stewardship, minimise risk and protect your tax-exempt status. We recognise the important role your organisation plays and the challenges you face, and we take pride in forming long-term relationships with our clients.

With a focus on management and governance, operational efficiency, income/funding generation and service delivery, our services include:

  • Assurance and compliance
  • Tax (link to tax)planning, including concessions and gift deductibility
  • Grants and government funding
  • Risk management
  • Business performance
  • Planning and strategy
  • Change and transformation
  • Strategic alliances and collaborative working
  • Support services

Let us act as your trusted advisor to help cut through the red tape and ensure you are running efficiently and effectively.

We provide comprehensive financial and business planning advice as well as specific guidance on issues such as maintaining tax concessions and gift deductibility

Property and Development

If property is about location, location, location, then financial success is about securing the right corporate, tax and audit advice.

From start-up through to expansion and selling your business, our advisors will assist with your finances, structures, processes and systems to make sure you are getting the very best out of your business.

Seeking Ways To Reduce Your Tax Exposure To Benefit Your Business

Working with you, we will seek ways to reduce your tax liabilities and add value to your business or personal situation. Our advice is:

  • Practical and business orientated
  • Proactive Flexible, responsive and client focused
  • Technically accurate
  • How can we help?

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Automotive

We can show you ways to improve the profitability of your automotive business. Reap the benefits when we review your operations.

Getting Your Financial Motor Running

Making the right decision at the right time is essential in today’s competitive and highly-regulated marketplace and the effective structuring and planning of your business will help you to make the right choices when issues arise.

Our focus is the automotive industry is to help you to improve the profitability of your business. We have the resources, service delivery and broad base of industry knowledge to review your operations and report on the upside opportunities and downside risks.

Our accounting information and financial reports are one thing, but turning that information into knowledge – that’s what gives your business the edge. Draw on the collective expertise of professionals in our offices. 

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is a skilled and knowledge-intensive sector that requires extensive capital, global understanding and strong cost controls.

Creating Success

Manufacturing is a skills and knowledge intensive sector that requires extensive capital, an understanding of the industry and strong cost controls. That’s why you need the right information and advisors on hand to help you make the right decisions.

We are well versed in issues such as corporate tax, GST, PST, payroll tax and compensation for workforces, Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax incentives,  and other  government grants and incentives available to manufacturing businesses. 

Talk to us about:

  • Business planning and improvement
  • Budgeting
  • Management accounting
  • Succession planning
  • Compliance with taxation laws
  • Financing and insurance
  • Performance management

From building on growth opportunities to controlling costs, we can be an independent, forward-thinking part of your team. One of our hallmarks of our firm is the ability to provide the right local knowledge and personalised attention.

Most importantly, we pride ourselves on developing strong relationships with clients and our track record of success with many businesses.

Professional Services

As a professional firm ourselves, we understand that your business support needs will vary widely as you grow from a small practice to a larger employer.

We Understand Professional Services – We Deliver Them! 

Enns & Company provides advice and support for small and medium-sized professional firms. We provide the business acumen and technical expertise you need, enabling you to focus on the specialist work that drives your revenue.

As a professional service firm ourselves, we understand that your support needs will vary considerably as you grow from a small or solo practice to become a larger business. In turn, our specialty professional services offerings are tailored to reflect the size of your firm.

  • Small Firm Advisory – small or solo accounting, consulting and legal practices often feel isolated and lacking in resources. We provide a rich source of peer support and technical knowledge to assist you and extend the value you deliver. 
  • Larger Firm Advisory – for larger professional firms, we offer the ability to manage your tax, audit and corporate advice needs through one continuous relationship by either an outsourced or advisory function.
  • We can help you with:

    • Management accounting
    • Budgeting issues
    • Key business indicators
    • Compliance with taxation laws
    • Trust account compliance
    • Private taxation services for partners
    • Customer profitability analysis
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