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One blog post closer to clean books.
Each blog post from the Castle team is packed with practical tips, real-world experience, and clear answers to common bookkeeping questions. Whether you're sorting expenses or planning for tax time, you'll find guidance to help you run your business with clarity and confidence.
Terms of Service
Welcome to Castle! These terms of service outline the rules and regulations for the use of our bookkeeping services.
By accessing this website and using our services, you accept these terms and conditions in full. Do not continue to use Castle services if you do not accept all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.
Castle offers professional bookkeeping services including transaction categorization, reconciliations, financial reporting, GST/HST filing, and other related services as agreed upon with the client.
2. Billing and Payments
All services provided by Castle are billed on a recurring basis unless otherwise
agreed upon. Payments are due upon receipt of invoice. We accept payment via credit card, debit card, and electronic funds transfer.
3. Cancellation and Refund Policy
Clients may cancel services at any time by providing 30 days’ notice in writing or via email. Refunds for prepaid services will be prorated based on the remaining unused portion of the services.
4. Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. We do not sell or share your information with third parties without your consent, except as required by law.
5. Liability
Castle will perform all services with reasonable care and skill. However, we do not accept liability for losses resulting from acts of nature, third-party errors, or misuse of financial information or reports by the client.
6. Amendments
Castle reserves the right to amend these terms of service at any time. Amendments will be effective immediately upon posting on this website.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Castle
316 1st Ave NE
Phone: 587-872-0602
Email: info@bookwithcastle.com
One blog post closer to clean books.
Each blog post from the Castle team is packed with practical tips, real-world experience, and clear answers to common bookkeeping questions. Whether you're sorting expenses or planning for tax time, you'll find guidance to help you run your business with clarity and confidence.
Busy Is Not Profitable
One of the most dangerous phases of a business isn’t when things are slow — it’s when things are busy.
Phones ringing. Jobs booked. Invoices going out. Long days. Late nights.
From the outside (and often the inside), it looks like success.
But busyness and profitability are not the same thing.
Revenue Loves to Lie
When work volume increases, revenue usually does too. That’s encouraging — but revenue alone doesn’t tell you what’s being kept.
We regularly see businesses where:
- Revenue is up year over year
- The owner is working more than ever
- Stress is higher
- Cash still feels tight
That’s usually a margin problem hiding behind activity.
More work with thin margins simply means you’re scaling inefficiency.
Underpricing Reveals Itself When You’re Busy
Underpricing often goes unnoticed when volume is low. When things get busy, it becomes painfully clear.
If every additional job adds:
- More labour
- More materials
- More admin
- More risk
…but not enough profit to justify it, the owner ends up becoming the shock absorber. They work longer hours to make numbers that never quite add up.
Being busy doesn’t fix bad pricing — it exposes it.
Owner Time Is the Most Forgotten Expense
One of the biggest distortions we see in bookkeeping is unpaid owner labour.
If the business only “works” because the owner:
- Doesn’t pay themselves properly
- Covers admin at night
- Absorbs mistakes and overruns
Then the business isn’t profitable — it’s subsidized.
True profitability exists after the owner is paid a fair wage for the role they’re actually performing.
Why This Shows Up in the Books
This problem becomes obvious when you look past the bank balance and into:
- Net income after adjustments
- Owner draws vs. real compensation
- Margins by service line
- Revenue per hour of labour (including yours)
A business can look strong on the surface while quietly exhausting the person running it.
The Hard Truth
A healthy business should get easier as it grows — not harder.
If growth only brings more stress, more hours, and more fragility, something underneath needs to change. Usually pricing, scope, structure, or all three.
Busyness is noise.
Profitability is signal.
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