Cash-Leak Review · Canadian contractors

Your books say you're profitable. One of your jobs isn't.

I go into your QuickBooks file and find exactly which invoices are overdue, which materials never got billed to a job, and which project is quietly eating your margin — ranked by dollar impact, delivered in five business days.

No bank passwords
No monthly contract
Refunded if I find nothing

Most contractors don't have a job-costing problem. They have a not-looking problem.

KPMG's Global Construction Survey found only 31% of projects come within 10% of their original budget — and that's the industry's own self-reporting.
0% of projects land within 10% of budget (KPMG)
1 in 19 projects in our sample review needed real investigation — the rest were fine
5 business days from your export to your findings report
Margin at risk, roughly

What could be sitting untracked in your books right now?

This isn't your number — it's the industry pattern applied to your size. The review tells you your actual number.

$1,300,000
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Estimated exposure range
$39,000 – $91,000

At C$1.3M revenue with light job-costing discipline, this is the range where overruns and untracked costs typically hide — spread across a handful of jobs, not all of them.

Illustrative, built from KPMG's construction budget-overrun findings applied to your inputs — not a finding about your specific books. The C$199 review replaces this estimate with your real numbers.
Demonstration report — synthetic data
Sample Cash-Leak Review cover for NorthStar Renovations Ltd., a demonstration company

This is what lands in your inbox

NorthStar Renovations Ltd. is a fictional company, but every number on its report was computed from transaction-level data by the same checklist I run on real files — findings ranked by dollar impact, receivables aging, a project-by-project margin table, a books health score, and a 30-day fix plan. Six pages, no fluff.

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Built, not bought

The checklist runs on software I wrote

The report above came out of a diagnostic engine I built — it reads transaction data and computes every finding itself. It also reads scanned invoices and tells you which job they belong to. Point it at your real export and it's the same pipeline, not a template with your name pasted in.

What breaks trust fastest

No login access, ever

Everything runs off the reports you export — P&L, aging, project profitability. I never ask for your QuickBooks password or your bank login, for this review or any future one.

The 16-point checklist

  1. 01 Overdue receivables
  2. 02 Invoices issued late
  3. 03 Unapplied customer payments
  4. 04 Unreconciled accounts
  5. 05 Uncategorized expenses
  6. 06 Duplicate or strange vendor charges
  7. 07 Materials not allocated to jobs
  8. 08 Labour/subcontractor costs misallocated
  1. 09 Jobs with weak or negative gross margin
  2. 10 Estimate vs. actual differences
  3. 11 Change-order / invoicing mismatches
  4. 12 Abnormal vendor or material price movement
  5. 13 Stale outstanding bills
  6. 14 Owner/personal transactions in the books
  7. 15 Suspicious balance-sheet accounts
  8. 16 Project profitability configuration

How this goes

Three ways to work together, in the order most people actually use them.

If it's worth fixing

Cleanup Sprint

Reconcile historical accounts, fix project allocation, clean A/R, configure job costing properly, produce reports you can actually trust.

C$750–2,500
Ongoing

Monthly Finance Desk

Monthly reconciliation, job profitability, A/R aging, cash-flow overview, and an accountant handoff, so this doesn't drift back to where it started.

C$399–799/mo

Why a Canadian bookkeeper working remotely

My background is full-cycle Canadian bookkeeping — trust accounting, reconciliations, QuickBooks Online — done the same way whether I'm across the hall or across the world. The review runs on exports and read-only reports, which is exactly the infrastructure QuickBooks Online's own project-costing tools already assume. This is a diagnostic, not an audit, review engagement, assurance engagement, tax opinion, or legal advice.

Money
Back
Guarantee

For the first five reviews: if I can't identify at least three concrete bookkeeping, cash-flow or job-costing issues worth investigating, I'll refund the C$199 in full. I'm not promising a specific dollar figure — I'm promising the findings are worth your time.

Before you ask

Do you need my QuickBooks login or banking info?

No. Everything runs off reports you export yourself — P&L, A/R and A/P aging, general ledger, project profitability. If a document checklist ever asks for a login, that's not me.

Why is someone in India doing my Canadian bookkeeping review?

My background is Canadian bookkeeping specifically — full-cycle trust accounting and reconciliation work, done on QuickBooks Online. The review is built entirely around exported reports, so where I'm sitting doesn't change what the numbers say.

What happens to my financial data afterward?

It's used only to prepare your review, never shared with anyone else, and deleted 30 days after the engagement closes. Your company name and numbers are never used as an example or case study without you agreeing to it first.

What if the review doesn't find anything worth acting on?

For the first five clients, that means a full refund — no argument. In practice, the more common outcome is one clear issue (usually receivables or one underperforming job) worth a lot more than C$199 in attention.

Is this an audit?

No. It's a management bookkeeping diagnostic — a structured look at your numbers to flag what's worth investigating. It isn't an audit, review engagement, assurance engagement, tax opinion, or legal advice, and it isn't a substitute for one.

Find out what your job-costing isn't telling you.

Send your read-only exports, get a ranked findings report back. No discovery call needed to start.

Get your review — C$199 →