Entrepreneur?
Hate doing the books?
The AccountingWizard Solution is here
I’m Lawrence Fox, the CPA who loves bookkeeping.
I provide my clients with a full range of bookkeeping, accounting (but not taxes) and advisory services. If you do need tax work, I collaborate with my fellow accountants who love to do it. Already have a tax preparer? Great! I’d love to work with her. Need a tax accountant? I’ll be happy to introduce you to one.What can I do for you?
I'm the guy you call when you absolutely, positively hate doing the books.
Why do I do what I do?
Joy.
While there’s a bit of a thrill when the balance sheet balances and the bank reconciles, the real joy is helping you.
I love the look on your face when the session is done and you know that everything is organized, the books are accurate, and a necessary job that you really don’t want to do is done.
The boring, time-consuming, client-service-interfering “stuff” is done.
The paperwork is filed and put away.
And you’re ready to deal with CRA at tax time.


If you’re saying “Yes! Yes! OMG Yes!”
…then you’re in the right place. Contact me today and book an appointment for a complimentary, no-obligation “Getting to Know You” consultation. We’ll talk for 45 minutes (and I’ll ask lots of questions about you and your business) and we’ll see if we’re a good fit.
Then we can get together for a Deep Dive Assessment and look at your business in detail, and we can discuss how to save you time, money, and especially, aggravation.
The coffee for that meeting is always on me.
My Ideal Client
- a sole operator or have up to three employees?
- in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), York Region (Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham) or Mississauga?
- running a full-time business?
- needing help with, or support with, bookkeeping?
Does all that describe you? Think we should talk further?
Book a consultation now!About Me (The Short Version)
(I’m 5′ 5″; you decide if that’s short).
About Me (the TL;DR version)
In addition to all that jazz up there…
I was born in Toronto and raised in the wilds of North York before there was a mega-city.
After high school, Starfleet Academy beckoned, but since it doesn’t exist (yet; time is a “A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff”), I couldn’t become a Starship Captain (all the really good ones are Canadian), I instead attended UofT where I got my B.Comm but never got the “CA/Auditor/Tax guy” bug.
After graduation, I worked for my Dad for a few years at the family business, washing cars, pumping gas (back in the days of full-service gas stations!) and doing the books after hours. Then I spent a few years working in a succession of small businesses in the accounting department while getting my CMA designation at night.
In 1994 I went out on my own in my first solo business, doing database design, maintenance and development for those small businesses. In the leadup to Y2K, I was really busy, but then things in that space slowed down and after my son was born, I was having too much fun being a dad to notice how slow things got! In 2001, after a chance call and lunch with a former employer (and current client) I returned to my roots and started AccountingWizard Solutions.
Analogue guy in a digital world
I wear self-tied bowties (yes, the real thing), write with a fountain pen (I’ve amassed quite a collection of vintage and modern ones), wear a pocket watch, and didn’t use a smartphone until I lost my dumbphone in the winter of 2014. I tweet @TheWizardGuy and I finally joined Facebook. I have a weird and twisted sense of humour, love bad puns (are there any good ones?), and my son despairs of my collection of “Dad jokes”. Raised by a miniature Schnauzer, I am now owned by cat(s), having married the Mad Catwoman of Downsview aka the Spousal Overunit (the best decision of my life). I paint in watercolours, proving that I can be a creative accountant without landing myself or my clients in jail.
(Here’s two of those paintings!)(Want to see more? Check out Centre St. Studio on Instagram!)

