The Ascot team has experience with small business, both as consultants and as small business developers ourselves.

We have consulted with small businesses at the startup stage on subjects such as location, structure (including the design of shareholder agreements), and the development of systems for accounting and for income and HST tax reporting.  Once these business had evolved beyond the startup stage, our advice focused on areas such as tax planning around employee/executive remuneration and dealing with tax audits.

In addition, as one of the founding shareholders in PRISED Solar Inc,. I have successfully dealt with issues such as shareholder and partnership agreements, applications for government assistance, safeguarding of intellectual property (whether in the form of trademarks or patents) and obtaining investor financing.