HJ Wu & Company Inc.

Chartered accounting for healthcare, law and business owners

Operating from downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, HJ Wu and Company Inc. is a boutique practice of chartered professional accountants. It describes itself as a full-service practice that helps organisations and private clients focus on growing their business while the accounts are kept accurate and compliant. The firm names healthcare, legal and business clients as its main groups, and says it works mostly with practices and owners in those fields.

Assurance, reviews and trust examinations

The firm provides audits and reviews, along with notice-to-reader engagements and compilations for organisations that need financial statements they can rely on. Its assurance work is aimed at companies, not-for-profit bodies and private enterprises. Trust examinations form a separate service. The firm checks that lawyers, notaries, real estate firms, property management companies and mortgage brokers handle trust money in line with the strict rules that govern it.

Bookkeeping, payroll and reporting

Day to day, the firm handles bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation and structured financial reports, and it describes its aim as keeping a client's records up to date and accurate. It says these foundations support the wider financial health of a business, and that it applies careful bookkeeping practice to every engagement.

Tax planning and filing for businesses and individuals

Tax work covers filing and planning for both businesses and individuals. The firm says the federal and provincial tax rules change often and are hard to keep up with, so it takes on that task for clients. Its advice is framed around managing a client's tax situation and the risks attached to it, and it presents that work as part of a wider advisory service.

Advisory and the finance controller role

The firm says its advisory work can stand in for a finance director or a financial controller, with tailored advice on running a business and its money efficiently and staying in compliance. It offers management services and consulting alongside its accounting, and says its philosophy rests on integrity, honesty and confidential, specialised work of the kind expected from a large consultancy, while keeping the personal relationships that a smaller firm offers.

Practices for lawyers, clinics and dentists

The firm says it has specialised accounting services for law firms, covering routine accounting, bookkeeping and trust account requirements, and that it can prepare financial statements at different levels of assurance. For healthcare providers, including medical and dental clinics, it takes over the financial and accounting work so that practitioners can spend their time on patients. The firm also offers website design, development and social media management for accounting, legal and healthcare practices, which it added as a newer service.