Altastra Office Systems Inc.

About Us

What We Do

Altastra specializes in the management of your financial, accounting, and administrative functions – from bookkeeping and financial reporting to assistance in raising funding and guiding financial strategy and financial decisions to support your long-term growth plans.

Who We Help

For small, medium, growth, and family enterprises who do not require a full-time CFO and want external financial expertise, Altastra offers an ideal solution. Let Altastra take care of the finance and administrative matters so you can focus on your goals. We offer a free consultation so that you can get to know us in person, hear what our strategies for your company might look like, and get some suggestions from us right on the spot.

How We Do It

We love to collaborate with you and your team to ensure that the services provided match the unique needs of your company, whether in start-up mode or sustaining operations phase. We leverage existing capacity or can provide appropriate expertise to support your finance, accounting, and administrative needs.

Services

Accounting & Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping services to businesses that include the review and oversight of an experienced Controller or CFO to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and efficiently

Financial Reporting

Preparation and review of quarterly and annual financial statements and management, discussion, & analysis reports

Budgeting & Forecasting

Preparation of budgets and forecasts to help you make better decisions on reaching your objectives

Cash Flow Management

As the adage goes “Cash Is King” – we help to implement cashflow forecasting and management processes to help you improve and manage the treasury

Working Capital Management

Organizing and setting up necessary systems and processes to improve working capital management via the following means:
- Review working capital management function
- Analyzing receivables and payables cycles and setting appropriate goals
- Negotiating better payment and collection terms
- Set up working capital lines with banks

Business Plan Development

Assistance with bank financing proposals and business plans to help attract the capital you need by stating your business goals, reasons they are attainable, and plans for reaching them

More Services

Audit Coordination

Manage and coordinate the annual audit process with minimum of stress

Risk Management

Implementing appropriate internal controls and corporate policies and procedures for the business
Review and test internal controls to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policies
Improve business processes within the finance function

Deal Analysis

Provide critical due diligence and advisory services to support your business as it grows and acquires other entities

Corporate Dashboards

Implement corporate dashboards to help owners/managers review relevant metrics, KPIs and other important information to track the company’s performance and to keep your team accountable
Implement dashboards to keep track of finance, regulatory, and administrative details on a frequent basis so nothing “falls through the cracks”

Fundraising

Altastra can leverage its investor network to help you prepare to get the capital you need to grow your business. We can connect you to angel investors, bank financing, venture capital, private equity or other alternatives

Corporate Tax

Altastra can leverage its network of Canadian, US, and International tax advisors or work with your tax advisors to ensure your tax reporting and compliance requirements are met

About the Founder & Principal

Wylie Hui, CPA, CA

Wylie is passionate about helping businesses flourish in this dynamic business environment! He has over 20 years of professional experience in financial planning and analysis; financial modeling; due diligence; risk management; external and internal auditing; and financial process innovation in various industries including mining, telecommunication, technology, media and entertainment, life sciences, manufacturing, and food and beverage sectors.

Wylie established Altastra to provide bookkeeping, controllership, and CFO services to public and private small, medium, growth, and family enterprises in various industries. Prior to starting-up Altastra, Wylie joined Tintina Resources Inc. (“Tintina”) as Controller in 2009 and promoted to CFO in 2010 where he built and led the financial, administrative, human resources, IT and other corporate functions while the company was developing a 1.3 billion pound copper project in Montana, USA. Wylie was CFO for two junior mining companies, AsiaBaseMetals Inc. and SolidusGold Inc. as well.

From 2005 to 2009, Wylie was a Senior Manager in the Transaction Support practice of Ernst & Young LLP in San Francisco, California advising private equity and corporate clients and in the Risk Advisory practice in Vancouver, British Columbia performing internal control compliance; enterprise and project risk management; and process improvement engagements primarily for mining and telecommunication companies.

From 2001 to 2005, he was the financial lead at TELUS on several information technology and telephony outsourcing deals.

Wylie received a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario and holds CPA (CA – BC and Ontario) and CPA (Illinois) designations. He is currently enrolled in the Family Enterprise Advisor program at the Sauder School of Business at UBC. He lives in Richmond, BC with his wife and daughter and is an avid road cyclist and mountain biker.

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