Partners in navigating complexity

KAM Consulting Services Inc. places management-level finance professionals alongside your executives on the reporting, transaction and compliance work that cannot go wrong.

A boutique firm in the Greater Toronto Area, built from ex-Big Four accountants with industry experience spanning financial analyst to CFO. Deep financial reporting practice in IFRS and US GAAP.

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Recent clients include

Dye & Durham Converge Technology Solutions Quarterhill dentalcorp UniUni Docebo Cority VerticalScope Auvik Tiny Real Matters VitalHub theScore Beacon

Who we are

We help ambitious clients achieve extraordinary outcomes by partnering with executives on their most important accounting and finance projects.

We specialise in complex accounting, transaction advisory, senior-level finance solutions and management consulting. Our team has worked across every major industry in roles ranging from financial analyst to CFO, so we can speak to the full range of impacts a decision will have on your company.

Ex-Big Four, with operating experience

Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG backgrounds, followed by controllership and CFO roles inside listed issuers.

Public company reporting

Prospectus offerings, new standard adoptions, purchase price accounting, and financial statements for reporting issuers.

Delivered on time and on budget

We take ownership of the outcome, not just the deliverable, and we stay present through the whole process.

Services

Work starts with a situation rather than a service line. Pick the one closest to yours.

You're adopting a new standard

New standards rarely fail on the technical reading. They fail on the data you do not have, the contracts nobody re-read, and the disclosure drafted the week before filing. We work the whole path, from scoping to the note in the financial statements.

  • Impact assessment and scoping across the contract population
  • IFRS 15 revenue, IFRS 16 leases, IFRS 9 financial instruments and ECL
  • Accounting policy papers your auditor can sign off against
  • Transition calculations, opening balance adjustments and comparatives
  • Disclosure drafting and audit support through the first reporting cycle
  • IFRS 18 presentation and disclosure readiness

You're converting frameworks

ASPE to IFRS, IFRS to US GAAP, or local GAAP into a parent's reporting framework. Conversions are usually driven by a listing, a lender or a new owner, which means the deadline is set by someone else.

  • Framework gap analysis with a quantified difference schedule
  • ASPE to IFRS, IFRS to US GAAP and US GAAP to IFRS conversions
  • Restated comparatives and reconciliations
  • Rewritten accounting policy manual and chart of accounts alignment
  • Auditor and audit committee walkthroughs

You're going public

Going public is a regulated process that needs every part of the business moving in unison. We have taken companies through IPO and RTO on the TSX and TSXV and stayed on afterwards for the continuous disclosure that follows.

  • IPO, RTO and SPAC qualifying transaction readiness against listing requirements
  • Prospectus financial statements, including pro forma and carve-out
  • Historical and interim financial statements for the filing
  • NI 52-109 certification readiness, ICFR and DC&P documentation
  • Reverse takeover and de-SPAC accounting, including accounting acquirer analysis
  • Continuous disclosure support once you are a reporting issuer

You have to certify your controls

Certification is an annual signature with personal exposure behind it. Whether the obligation is NI 52-109 here or SOX 404 once you file a 40-F, the underlying work is the same: a control environment that is designed, documented and evidenced well enough for somebody else to test.

  • ICFR and DC&P design, documentation and walkthroughs under NI 52-109
  • SOX 404 readiness for cross-listed issuers and 40-F filers
  • Entity-level controls, risk assessment and scoping
  • Process narratives, flowcharts and risk and control matrices
  • IT general controls, segregation of duties and access reviews
  • Deficiency evaluation and classification, and remediation plans
  • Certification support and audit committee reporting

You've signed a transaction

The accounting consequences of a deal land long after the announcement. Purchase price allocation, carve-out financials and the first consolidated close are where deals quietly go wrong.

  • IFRS 3 purchase price allocation and acquisition accounting
  • Carve-out and combined financial statements, and business acquisition reports
  • Pro forma financial information for the circular or prospectus
  • Day 1 readiness and opening balance sheet
  • Post-close consolidation, integration and transition services support
  • Goodwill and CGU impairment testing after the deal

You're short a finance leader

A departure, a leave, or a step-change in reporting obligations you were not staffed for. We place people who have held the seat, not advisors who will describe it to you.

  • Interim CFO, controller and treasurer placements
  • Audit committee and board reporting support
  • Financial analysis, modelling and forecasting
  • External reporting takeover through a quarter or a year-end
  • Finance function assessment, process redesign and co-sourced close
  • Treasury support, including hedge documentation and effectiveness testing

Your system can't close the books

When the close runs on spreadsheets bolted to an ERP that was configured before anyone thought about consolidation, the answer is rarely more people. It is usually the system design.

  • NetSuite implementation and post-go-live remediation
  • Chart of accounts and segment design built for external reporting
  • Multi-subsidiary consolidation, multi-currency and intercompany
  • Revenue and lease accounting configured to the standard, not to a workaround
  • Close automation and management reporting

You're restating, or a regulator has questions

A continuous disclosure review, a comment letter, or an error found after filing. These are time-boxed and visible, and the response matters as much as the correction. We have worked the issuer side of them.

  • Responses to CSA and OSC continuous disclosure review comment letters
  • Error assessment, materiality analysis and restatement decisions
  • Restated financial statements, re-filings and amended MD&A
  • Root-cause analysis and control remediation plans
  • Audit committee reporting through the remediation

You need a technical position, quickly

A question that has to be answered before a board meeting, a filing, or an auditor conversation. Often a single defensible position paper rather than a project. We hold retainers for this where the questions keep coming.

  • Impairment, going concern and other complex estimates
  • Share-based payments under IFRS 2
  • Debt versus equity classification and compound instruments
  • Business combination versus asset acquisition analysis
  • Financial instruments and hedge accounting
  • On-call technical accounting for finance teams without a technical lead

NetSuite implementation and advisory

Most NetSuite programs are run by systems consultants. Ours are run by the people who have to sign the financial statements at the end of it.

An ERP implementation is an accounting project wearing a technology budget.

The decisions that determine whether you can close in five days or fifteen are made early, in the chart of accounts, the subsidiary structure and the revenue configuration. They are accounting decisions, and they are usually made by people who will never prepare a financial statement from the result.

We have implemented NetSuite for reporting issuers, migrated acquired businesses onto it after close, and been called in to repair implementations that technically went live but could not produce an auditable consolidated close. The same team handles the IFRS position and the system configuration that has to support it, so neither gets designed around the other.

Work runs as a full implementation, as accounting design alongside an existing integrator, or as a targeted fix to a specific part of the build.

System selection and scoping

Whether NetSuite is the right answer at all, what the implementation actually needs to cover, and a second read on an integrator's statement of work before you sign it.

Implementation, led by accountants

We scope and run the build around how the books have to close and what the auditor will ask for, rather than fitting reporting around a configuration decided months earlier.

Chart of accounts and segment design

Accounts, subsidiaries, departments, classes and locations structured so statutory reporting, management reporting and consolidation all come out of the same data.

Consolidation and multi-currency

OneWorld subsidiary hierarchies, functional currency settings, intercompany elimination and consolidated exchange rates that reconcile without a spreadsheet layer.

Multi-book accounting

Parallel books where the same transactions have to report under IFRS and US GAAP, or where local statutory and group reporting diverge. Configured once, rather than reconciled every period.

Revenue, billing and order-to-cash

Advanced Revenue Management configured to IFRS 15 or ASC 606, and SuiteBilling set up for subscription, usage and multi-element arrangements rather than a manual workaround.

Leases, fixed assets and inventory

IFRS 16 lease accounting, fixed asset registers and depreciation, and inventory costing configured so the subledgers agree to the general ledger without adjustment.

Integrations and the finance stack

CRM, ecommerce, banking, payroll, expense and tax engines connected to NetSuite, with the accounting consequences of each interface designed rather than discovered at close.

Data migration and opening balances

Master data cleansing, historical transaction strategy, and an opening balance sheet that ties to the last audited figures.

Carve-out and post-acquisition onboarding

Standing up an acquired or carved-out business on NetSuite, including transition service arrangements and the first consolidated close under new ownership.

Planning, budgeting and reporting

NetSuite Planning and Budgeting for forecasting and board reporting, and saved searches and analytics that shorten the close rather than relocating the work.

Cutover, go-live and hypercare

The riskiest fortnight of the programme. Parallel runs, cutover sequencing, first-close support and the training your team needs to operate it without us.

Audit readiness and controls

Role and permission design, segregation of duties, approval routing and the audit trail your auditor and NI 52-109 certification will need.

Health checks and remediation

Where an implementation has already gone in and is not delivering, we assess what was configured, what it costs you each close, and what is worth rebuilding.

Our team

Our team personify the very qualities that have made us successful.

Devin Miller

Devin Miller, CPA

Managing Director

Devin brings more than 10 years of experience with technical accounting, regulatory compliance, IPO preparation and strategic planning. Recent engagements include pro forma financial statements for prospectus offerings, IFRS 15 and IFRS 16 adoptions, and biological asset valuations.

Before KAM, Devin was a Senior Accountant at Deloitte focused on publicly listed entities, a Financial Analyst at Honeywell/COM DEV, and Project Accountant at Canadian Solar Solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Guelph.

Ryan Louie

Ryan Louie, CPA, CA

Director

Ryan brings more than 8 years of experience in technical accounting, financial reporting, regulatory compliance and strategic planning. Recent engagements include IFRS 16 leases, IFRS 9 financial instruments, purchase price accounting and external financial reporting, plus NetSuite, lease accounting software and Shareworks implementations.

Before KAM, Ryan was financial controller and manager of external financial reporting at Dye & Durham, and a senior analyst with Brookfield Asset Management. He spent 3 years at PwC in the asset management sector and holds a BBA from York University's Schulich School of Business.

Tyrone Ferguson

Tyrone Ferguson, MBA, CPA

Director

Tyrone brings more than 6 years of experience with technical accounting, system implementation and internal controls. Recent engagements include conversion of financial statements from ASPE to IFRS and US GAAP, IFRS 16 leases, IFRS 9 financial instruments, and implementing a new accounting solution for ECL calculation.

Before KAM, Tyrone spent three years in KPMG's Accounting Advisory Services practice and three years at PwC conducting financial statement audits, both primarily in financial services. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University and an MBA from York University's Schulich School of Business.

Mandeep Kamboj

Mandeep Kamboj, CPA, CA

Director

Mandeep brings over 8 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic planning, technical accounting and finance integration. Recent projects include new standard implementations, integration of reporting and operations after a large acquisition, and coordinating projections.

Before KAM, Mandeep was a Senior Financial Analyst in FP&A at Teranet, an Experienced Senior Associate at PwC, and a Senior Accountant at Deloitte, primarily in financial services, technology and manufacturing. He holds a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Hao Lei

NetSuite Master

John Laratta

Consultant

Advisory board

Avjit Kamboj

Avjit Kamboj

CPA, CA, CPA (Illinois)

Avjit Kamboj is a finance executive with more than 17 years of leadership experience across capital markets, M&A and financial reporting. He is Chief Financial Officer and a board member of MAK Acquisition Corp. and chairs the audit committee of Metatek-Group Ltd., both TSX-listed companies.

Previously, Avjit was Chief Financial Officer of Converge, where he was instrumental in the company's public listing and led its finance function through to its acquisition by H.I.G. Capital for approximately $1.3 billion. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of Dye & Durham and CarbonCure.

As an advisor to KAM Consulting, Avjit helps publicly listed technology companies implement the policies, processes, systems and controls expected of a public company. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant and a U.S. Certified Public Accountant.

Companies we have worked with

Dye & Durham Converge Technology Solutions Quarterhill dentalcorp UniUni Docebo Cority VerticalScope Auvik Tiny Real Matters VitalHub theScore Beacon 360insights Acasta Alignvest Amp Ample Organics Avicanna DeFi Technologies E Inc. E360S Emblem Flow FSD Pharma GMP Halo IM Cannabis Infrapipe Khiron Kore LifeSpeak LOGiQ LRS Maricann Open Farm Pet Valu Pluribus Technologies Portage CyberTech Quisitive Qylur Radicle RFA Sagicor Scientus Pharma Symbility TerrAscend Top Hat Washington Trust Wellstar Xanadu

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