About 786 Accounting

About Us

WHO WE ARE

Sayem Hasan, CPA, CEPA – Founder & CEO

Sayem brings with him wealth of experience in Retail, Start-ups, Technology firms, Taxation and Exit Planning.

Prior to founding 786 Accounting & Tax, Sayem worked as a Tax Specialist for KPMG specializing in small businesses enterprise. He also worked in Executive role with the one of the largest fashion retailer in the country, where he reshaped the district and sales culture of the entire district. He also continues to provide CFO/Controller services to few select start-ups. Where the company grew from a beginning start-ups to a mid-level firm and more.

Sayem holds Bachelor of Business Administration from University of Sunderland and Post bachelor from Vancouver Island University, is a Chartered Professional Accountant and is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor.

Language Skills – Bangla, Hindi, Urdu and English

Stella Hong, CPA(CN), CIA

Stella Hong achieved her designation from the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) from China. With over 15 years of experience in public practice, including big four accounting firms and multi-national corporations, she brings a wealth of simple to complex accounting, advisory and tax experience. She is very passionate about helping small business owners achieve success by ensuring continuous support. With her multidisciplinary and multicultural expertise, your accounting, advisory and tax will be in great hands.

Language Skills – English, Mandarin and Cantonese

Crystal Shen, BBA

Crystal had gained over 20 years of financial experience in the roles like Chief Financial Officer and Executive Finance in the world’s leading national and multi-national company in her home country. Being an entrepreneur herself, she understands the grind the small business owners have to go through to succeed. She completed BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) from a prestigious university in China and Certification from Harvard Business School. She brings the proven track record of being a successful leader with a wealth of experience and knowledge to 786 Accounting & Tax in the Accounting and Advisory role.

When she is not working on the numbers, you can find Crystal going fishing, hunting in northern Saskatchewan.

Language Skills – Mandarin and English

Elaine Yun

Elaine has over 12 years of financial experience including big four accounting firm and fast-growing companies in different fields in her home country. She is equipped with solid accounting, auditing, and financial analyzing knowledge. With strong logical thinking and financial analysis ability, she can provide customers with improvement suggestions.

Having been bookkeeping for over 80 small businesses in Canada, she has a comprehensive understanding of small enterprises in different industries. She brings a wealth of solid experience to 786 Accounting & Tax in the Accounting and Tax role.

Language Skills – Mandarin and English

Our Team

Let our qualified professionals help you keep your business going. While we agree that other CPA and bookkeeping firms are pretty good at what they do, some are amazing. In our service offering, the fee structure is unique. We don’t stop at compliant financial statements, we start from there and provide you quarterly updates on your financial health along with the valuation indicator to show how your company’s indicative value has changed from one period to another based on the industry-leading data that all financial institutions and investors use to make crucial decisions.

We started 786 Accounting & tax with a mindset of helping small business owners grow by helping them by providing industry leading tech enabled apps to manage their accounting, advisory and tax services. Our combined team experience is over 60 years. In a very wide array of industry with a special focus on the listed industries on our services for bookkeeping pages. Our team promise is:

Peace of mind
With our partnership, you will have a peace of mind. We got your back.

Fixed fee pricing

Our pricing is always fixed fee and based on packaged services. You will never receive a surprise bill! We only believe in good surprises not bad ones.

Qualified, certified tech-savvy partners

Your partner is our entire team! All of our team members are qualified, certified and designated individuals. That means, we have done the grind academically, practically and professionally. We have dealt with almost all types of challenges and overcame that with golden strides.

Transparent and open communication

We consistently communicate with you to provide you best-in-class service, which is not tied with the hourly engagements or scheduled appointments. Our communication is clear, concise and transparent.

Industry leading reporting standards

Our advisory team is backed with industry leading certification, applications and research reports that can break it down to your specific industry and specific NASIC code. So, you know when we are providing you with advisory services we are basing it on a 360 degree report containing all of that relevant data for your industry, location with the objective to increase your market value and market position.

Bookkeeping Team

A team of qualified and certified bookkeepers with years of experience working with the industry leading tech stack to provide accurate, very economical and timely bookkeeping services.