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Enkel Helps Achieve CPAs LLP. Reclaim Time, Enhance Focus, and Accelerate Growth

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Achieve CPAs LLP provides a range of high quality, personalized accounting services to small and medium sized businesses and individuals across Canada.

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Carrie Stocco and Kate Norris are the Partners leading Achieve CPAs LLP. Both began their careers in Big 4 accounting firms, bringing a wealth of experience to their clients. Carrie has over 25 years of experience, specializing in tax planning and advisory for owner-managed businesses across diverse sectors like real estate and construction. Their combined expertise ensures comprehensive service for all clients, allowing them to focus on strategic growth and client satisfaction.

The Challenge

As a growing firm, Achieve CPAs LLP. faced a common challenge in the accounting industry: balancing the demanding, high-volume work of compliance, such as day-to-day bookkeeping, payroll, and sales tax filings, with the firm’s core, high-value services like tax planning and strategic advisory. The firm recognized that dedicating internal resources to back-office functions presented several pain points:
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Not enough time in the day

The heavy workload, particularly during peak seasons, strained the capacity of their in-house team, leading to potential burnout and a diversion of focus from complex client engagements. The ongoing difficulty in recruiting and retaining skilled, specialized staff for non-core bookkeeping and payroll tasks added significant overhead and management complexity

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Opportunity Cost

Every hour spent on transactional back-office tasks was an hour not spent on strategic advisory services, which are the primary drivers of client value and firm growth. To truly scale and enhance their client relationships, Achieve CPAs LLP. needed a solution that would allow their CPAs to focus entirely on their expertise.

The Solution

Achieve CPAs LLP. made the strategic decision to partner with Enkel to completely outsource their non-core back-office functions. This partnership was designed not just to offload tasks, but to integrate a specialized, scalable, and professional back-office team into their operations. Enkel’s solution provided:

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Expertise and Standardization:

The firm gained access to Enkel’s team of experienced accounting professionals and their standardized, cloud-based processes, which brought a new level of efficiency and consistency to their financial operations.

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Full-Service Back-Office Management:

Enkel took over the management of day-to-day bookkeeping, payroll administration, and other routine compliance tasks, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

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The working relationship itself has been excellent. You guys are so responsive, and that communication goes a long way in business. We get clarifications from Enkel within a couple of days, which is really nice because that's when the file is most fresh in our minds, allowing us to provide good, accurate information quickly.
-   Kate Norris, Partner, Achieve CPAs LLP.

Results

By partnering with Enkel, Achieve CPAs LLP. successfully transformed its operational model, moving from a reactive, compliance-heavy structure to a proactive, advisory-focused one. The results were immediate and impactful:

Significant Time Savings: The firm’s CPAs and senior staff were freed from the burden of transactional tasks, allowing them to reclaim hundreds of hours annually to dedicate to high-value client work, such as complex tax planning and strategic advisory.

Enhanced Scalability: With a scalable back-office infrastructure in place, the firm gained the capacity to onboard new clients and manage increased workloads without the need for immediate, costly in-house hiring.

Improved Client Service: By focusing on their core competencies, Achieve CPAs LLP. was able to deepen client relationships and provide more comprehensive, strategic advice, further solidifying their reputation as a trusted partner.

Cost Efficiency: The firm realized substantial cost savings by eliminating the expenses associated with recruiting, training, and managing full-time, in-house back-office staff

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