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When your long-serving controller or CFO gives notice, you have two jobs: protect access to the bank, systems and payroll, and find a permanent successor.…
A franchisee who opened one quick-service restaurant in the GTA in 2017 now runs nine, held through four numbered companies (corporations registered with a number…
Your controller of 20 years is retiring in March. Your senior accountant has been doing half the job for three years and assumes the seat…
Say you own a Vaughan distribution business with a large warehouse off Highway 400. The year-end inventory count won’t reconcile to the books. The bookkeeper…
Picture a family-owned food processor on London’s east side whose controller of 22 years is retiring. The posting draws 140 applicants. Not one has run…
Say you have three controller resumes on your desk. All three say “month-end close, ASPE, NetSuite.” Nothing on the page tells you which one can…
Say a GTA distributor refinances, starts buying from US-dollar suppliers and adds a second lender. The controller who “also does treasury” now spends much of…
Say you own a distribution company doing about $30 million in revenue. Your accountant has been with you for 12 years. They aren’t designated, and…
About one in five Canadian businesses intends to sell or transfer ownership within the next 10 years, according to Statistics Canada’s 2026 data. Business owner…
Say your controller of 18 years gives notice, or tells you they plan to retire next spring. Then it sinks in: the bank contact, the…
