Start Right: Setting Up a New Company the Right Way
A free 60-minute online session for founders of any kind of business — service, retail, trades, consulting, tech — who are about to incorporate or did so in the last year.
Most founders incorporate with a $200 online form and a search engine, then pay to undo the result a year later: shares never properly issued, a minute book never started, an HST registration missed, personal expenses mixed into the company account, a payroll remittance that arrived late. None of that is hard. It is simply never explained in one place, in plain language, before the decisions are made. This session does that in an hour, with the current 2026 numbers.
What you will leave with:
A plain answer to "should I incorporate at all?" and "federal or Ontario?"
The eleven things corporate law actually requires you to keep and file, and why the minute book matters
What to set up in the first month and what to file every year, with the deadlines
Answers to the questions every new founder asks: moving assets you already own into the company without paying tax, the most common first-year mistakes, what a compilation report is, and salary vs. dividends
A plain rule for when you need an accountant — and what you can do yourself
Every attendee will receive a four-page founder checklist that follows the same order as the talk.
Presented by Wei Jiang, CPA — Levante (withlevante.com), former Big Four tax manager, based in Ottawa. Education, not a sales pitch: written for founders with no accounting background, every term explained the first time it appears.
The Google Meet link is sent to registered guests before the session.