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For Bookkeepers. A CPA Who Sends Work Back

Reviewed by EverStone CPA · August 2026

Quick answer: Bookkeepers refer their clients’ T2s, year-ends and compilation engagements to us; we keep the bookkeeping exactly where it is — with you — and when a tax-only client of ours needs a bookkeeper, that referral flows the other way. No fee-splitting in either direction: CPABC rules and, frankly, cleaner incentives.

The arrangement, stated plainly

  • Your client stays your client. We take the corporate filings a bookkeeper cannot sign — T2s, year-end statements, compilation engagements — and we do not poach the books. That is in writing in the engagement letter.
  • The referral flows both ways. Tax-only clients regularly need monthly bookkeeping we do not want to do in-house forever. Verified local bookkeepers are where they get sent.
  • No money changes hands for referrals. No commissions, no splits, no “partnership fees”. You refer because the work comes back done well and your client thanks you for it.

What working with us looks like for your files

You keep your software and your process. At year-end we take a backup or accountant access, return adjusting entries in a form you can actually post, and answer the questions in-year — a client’s PIER report or GST review does not have to become your unpaid problem. The goal is that your year-end handoff takes an afternoon, not a week of chasing.

Who this fits

Solo bookkeepers and small firms in the Fraser Valley and beyond — the work is fully remote — whose clients are incorporated owner-managers. If your book of clients is mostly sole proprietors, we are less useful to you; that honesty cuts both ways and is rather the point.

Common questions

Will you try to take over my client’s bookkeeping?+
No — and it is in the engagement letter. Bookkeeping partners exist because we would rather work with good books than compete for them. A firm that poaches its referral sources has expensive, short relationships.
Do you pay referral fees?+
No, in either direction. CPABC rules constrain it and the incentive problem is real: a referral bought is a recommendation the client cannot trust. What you get instead is reciprocal referrals and year-ends that stop being painful.
What software do you work with?+
Yours. We take backups or accountant access from the mainstream packages and return adjusting entries you can post — the workflow question is part of the first call.
How do we start?+
A twenty-minute intro call, then try one year-end together. The partner one-pager and intro process are ready — email or book below, and mention you are a bookkeeper so the right conversation happens.

Try one year-end together

One file, this year-end. If the handoff is not the easiest one you had all season, no hard feelings.

Book an intro callinfo@everstonecpa.com