Your St. John's Bookkeeper.
Work directly with a St. John's-based bookkeeper for monthly bookkeeping, payroll, HST and tax filing. One familiar contact, backed by a wider bookkeeping network.
Monthly bookkeeping from $199/monthCAD, plus applicable tax. Payroll and tax filing quoted separately.
Meet your St. John's bookkeeper.
Your books are looked after by Marilyn Faulkner, the bookkeeper for St. John's, based in St. John's / Northeast Avalon.
About Marilyn Faulkner
I’ve worked in bookkeeping, payroll and accounting for more than twenty years, and I’m based here in St. John’s.
For nearly a decade I looked after the books for more than a hundred clients at a St. John’s tax and bookkeeping practice — monthly bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, HST remittances, payroll on weekly, bi-weekly and monthly cycles, T4s, T4As and T5s, records of employment, and WorkplaceNL statements. Before that I handled the books for construction and electrical contractors in Ontario, which is where I learned how much of this work is knowing what a business actually looks like when it’s running properly.
Over the years I’ve worked in Sage 50, QuickBooks, Timberline and a handful of other systems, so an unfamiliar set of books doesn’t take me long to find my way around.
Get your bookkeeping quote.
Tell Marilyn Faulkner about your business. We’ll discuss what you need and the price before you commit. Usually a reply within one business day.
The building season, the fishing season, the summer rush — and the winter after.
Out here the year doesn’t run on the calendar. It runs by the job, the trip and the season, and the books have to keep up with all three.
Contractors and trades
A short building season and a long winter. We keep every job’s costs and what you’re owed straight while you’re busy, so the slow months bring no surprises.
Fishing and seafood
A season’s income has to carry a year of bills. We record every landing and keep the books current through the quiet months, so you always know where you stand.
Tourism and hospitality
Deposits arrive months before your guests do. We keep bookings, deposits and refunds matched, so the summer’s numbers add up.
Your bookkeeper is from here and works here, so you’re never explaining a building season or a fishing season to someone who has never lived one — or waiting on another time zone for an answer.
WorkplaceNL, the Registry of Companies, HST — we track the Newfoundland and Labrador dates and have the numbers ready before they’re due.
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Serving St. John's and the surrounding area
Serving the Northeast Avalon, including:
The Northeast Avalon is St. John’s and Mount Pearl at the centre, Paradise, Conception Bay South and Portugal Cove–St. Philip’s towards Conception Bay, and Torbay and Logy Bay–Middle Cove–Outer Cove up the coast to the north.
Your bookkeeper works from here, on Newfoundland time, and covers the whole of it: a business in Torbay or Conception Bay South gets the same bookkeeper, and the same working day, as one downtown.
Most bookkeeping work is handled securely online, so you get local service without having to drive across the city with a box of receipts.
Questions we hear on the Avalon.
Do you cover Mount Pearl, Paradise and CBS?
Yes, and Torbay, Portugal Cove–St. Philip’s and Logy Bay–Middle Cove–Outer Cove too. It’s the same bookkeeper across the Northeast Avalon.
I fish part of the year. Is my business too small for a bookkeeper?
No. A fishing enterprise needs a clean record of every landing and every bill as much as any business does, and someone who knows the season makes that simple.
It’s just me and a couple of helpers. Is payroll worth handing over?
Yes. We run the pay, track the remittances and keep the year-end slips and WorkplaceNL numbers ready, whether you pay two people or eight.
Most of my money comes in between May and October. How does that work?
We keep pace with you through the busy months and use the quiet ones to tidy up, so by spring the books are already in order instead of waiting for you.
I have one employee. Do I really need WorkplaceNL?
Every employer in the province registers with WorkplaceNL, one employee included. We keep the payroll figures its year-end statement asks for, so it’s never a scramble.
What we handle each month
- Transaction categorization
- Bank and card reconciliations
- Monthly financial statements
- HST tracking
Payroll, tax filing and catch-up work are quoted separately.
Full service details →How it works
Tell us about your business
Send the short form. We’ll follow up personally.
Agree the scope and price
Know what’s included before work begins.
Keep your books current
We handle the monthly work and answer your questions.
We can fix that first.
If you’re several months behind — or haven’t looked at the books since last year — we can work through the backlog and get you current again.
We’ll tell you what’s missing, what needs to be fixed and what the cleanup will cost before starting.
No hourly surprises.
Monthly bookkeeping starts from $199 per month, with pricing based on the size and complexity of your business rather than an hourly clock.
Payroll, T1 and T2 filing are priced separately, and you’ll know the price before anything starts.
How Much Does a Bookkeeper Cost in St. John’s?
Bookkeeping costs for a St. John’s small business with HST added, plus the local payroll tax, WorkplaceNL and registry rules the books have to support.