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Your Outsourced
Back-Office Accounting Department

Stop stitching together a bookkeeper here, a payroll app there, and invoicing whenever you find time. ATS runs your entire back office — bookkeeping, accounts payable and receivable, payroll coordination, and monthly reporting — as one CPA-led department, so your books are always current and you get your evenings back.

Quick Answer

What does an outsourced back office do? It runs your company’s day-to-day finance function for you — recording every transaction, paying suppliers, invoicing and chasing customers, coordinating payroll, tracking sales tax, closing the month, and delivering reports you can actually use. ATS provides that whole department as a service: a licensed CPA firm in Montréal, bilingual, serving businesses across Canada, so you get finance-department output without the finance-department payroll.

One Department Instead of Five Loose Ends

Most small and mid-sized businesses don’t need a full in-house finance team — but they do need everything a finance team does. ATS closes that gap. We become your virtual bookkeeping and accounting department: the same people, every month, handling the full cycle from source documents to management reports, all reconciled and connected. You get one accountable partner instead of a bookkeeper, a payroll service, and a spreadsheet that never quite agree.

Who a Back Office Is For

If finance work keeps landing on someone who shouldn’t be doing it, a back office fits.

Founders doing the books at night and on weekends
Businesses that have outgrown a single part-time bookkeeper
Companies with no in-house finance or accounting staff
Owners who want one accountable partner, not several vendors
Growing teams that need reporting to make decisions
Firms replacing a bookkeeper who left

What Your Back Office Covers

The full finance function — not just data entry.

Full-Cycle Bookkeeping Every transaction recorded, categorized, and reconciled — bank, credit card, and loan accounts kept current and accurate month after month.
Accounts Payable We capture, code, and organize supplier bills, schedule them for your approval, and keep vendor records clean so nothing is paid late or twice.
Accounts Receivable We prepare and send your invoices, track what’s owed, and follow up on overdue accounts so cash comes in faster.
Payroll Coordination Payroll runs on schedule with source deductions, T4/RL-1 slips, and remittances handled — coordinated with your bookkeeping so it all ties out.
Month-End Close We close each period properly — accruals, reconciliations, and reviews — so your numbers are reliable, not just entered.
Management Reporting Clear monthly financials and the few numbers that matter for your decisions, delivered on a predictable schedule.
Sales Tax Tracking GST/HST and QST tracked through your books and reconciled every period, ready to file on time.
Software & AI Automation Run on QuickBooks Online or Xero with automated receipt and document capture, so routine data entry is minimized and your books stay live.

This page is general information, not accounting or tax advice for your specific situation. Scope is tailored to your business — book a free consultation to design the right back-office setup.

How We Run Your Back Office

Onboard once, then a steady monthly rhythm.

Step 01

Free Consultation

We map what your finance function needs today and where the gaps and risks are.

Step 02

Onboard & Set Up

We connect your accounts, set up or clean up QuickBooks/Xero, and define approvals, workflows, and your reporting package.

Step 03

Run the Monthly Cycle

We handle bookkeeping, AP, AR, payroll coordination, and sales tax throughout the month, with a dedicated point of contact.

Step 04

Close & Report

We close the month and deliver reconciled financials and the metrics you use to run the business.

Why Businesses Hand ATS the Whole Back Office

A back office only works if the numbers can be trusted — which is why it belongs with accountants, not just data-entry help. ATS is a licensed CPA firm, a member of the Ordre des CPA du Québec, with US and Canadian CPAs on staff, over a decade of experience, and QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor and Xero Partner credentials. Bilingual and Montréal-based, we serve businesses across Canada, and because a CPA firm stands behind the work, your year-end is already clean.

Your back office connects to everything else we do: monthly bookkeeping, AP/AR management, payroll, tax, and cloud accounting. Préférez le français ? Voir comptabilité externalisée.

A Full Finance Department, One Monthly Fee

Back-office service is scoped to your transaction volume and the functions you need — bookkeeping, AP, AR, payroll, reporting. You’ll get a clear monthly price before we start, with no surprises.

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Back-Office FAQs

Common Questions About Outsourced Back-Office Accounting

What is an outsourced back office?
It’s your finance and accounting department, run by an outside firm instead of in-house staff. ATS handles the day-to-day — recording transactions, paying bills, invoicing customers, coordinating payroll, and producing monthly reports — so you get a full bookkeeping department without hiring, training, or managing one.
How is this different from just bookkeeping?
Monthly bookkeeping records what happened. A back office runs the whole cycle: bookkeeping plus accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll coordination, sales-tax tracking, month-end close, and management reporting — all connected and reconciled, with a CPA firm standing behind the numbers.
Will I have a dedicated point of contact?
Yes. You work with a consistent ATS contact who knows your business, backed by the wider CPA-led team, so there’s continuity and no single point of failure.
Do I keep control of my accounts and approvals?
Yes. You keep ownership of your bank accounts and approve payments and key decisions. We prepare, organize, schedule, and record — you retain authority over your money.
Is this only for larger companies?
No. Small businesses use it to skip hiring a bookkeeper; growing companies use it to replace a patchwork of part-time help with one accountable department that scales with them.

Hand off the back office. Keep the control.

Book a free consultation and we’ll design a back-office setup that fits your business — bookkeeping, AP/AR, payroll, and reporting, all handled.