The practice
Built to hold the whole file. Not a slice of it.
Gordon Group CPA is an accounting, tax and advisory practice based in Edmonton, working with owner-managed businesses across Canada. It keeps the books, files the returns, and does the advisory work that follows from both — because the accountant who files the return should be the one who already knows why the number moved.
What the practice holds itself to.
- Your file has a name on it
- A named CPA owns the engagement from the scope through to the filing, and the name does not change between month one and year four. Whatever size the firm is, the person accountable for your file is a person you can name.
- Planning before year-end
- Almost everything that changes an owner-managed tax outcome has a deadline of 31 December. A conversation in February is a report on what already happened.
- A position, written down
- Where a filing takes a position, the reasoning is documented at the time — not reconstructed eighteen months later when CRA asks about it.
- Say what the number cannot support
- Where a figure will not stand up, the answer is that it will not stand up — before it is filed rather than after.
The founder
Shane Gordon, CPA. Sixteen years, and most of them on the other side of the desk.
Five of those sixteen years were spent in public practice with large international firms, which is where the tax and compliance work was learned properly and where the habit of writing down the reasoning for a position comes from.
The other eleven were spent inside companies rather than advising them from outside — building and running finance functions at businesses from pre-revenue through to more than $500 million in revenue, through private-equity ownership, acquisitions and the system rebuilds that follow them. That is an unusual grounding for a practice of this kind, and it is the reason the advice tends to arrive as a position rather than as a list of options: the person giving it has had to live with the consequences of the same decisions.
The practice itself has been running for six years. It is deliberately small, and the work is not subcontracted.
- 16 years
- in accounting
- 5 years
- in public practice
- $2.5B+
- in acquisitions worked on — purchase price allocations, systems integration and tax migrations
- $300M+
- of ERP implementations led
- Pre-revenue to $500M+
- the range of businesses whose finance function he has run
- 6 years
- running this practice
How the work is staffed
Every file has a named CPA on it. That name does not change.
A designation you can check
The work is done by a Chartered Professional Accountant in public practice, registered with CPA Alberta and listed on its public register. You do not have to take any of this on trust — the register is searchable, and it takes a minute.
Both sides of the file
Corporate tax, personal tax, the books underneath them and the reporting a lender or a board reads are handled as one file rather than as four, because for an owner-managed business they have never actually been four separate questions.
You get an answer
A written answer inside two business days, every time, and phone calls are not billed by the minute. The thing that stops most owners asking their accountant a question is the sense of a meter running. There is no meter.
Thirty minutes, and you will know the number.
Tell us about the company and where the books stand today. The call ends with a recommended scope and a price.
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