Its co-founders have IT backgrounds, and this is the first clue that Le Contrôleur is not your typical accounting firm. The second clue highlighting its difference is the emphasis the team puts on soft skills. The happiness of Le Contrôleur's employees and the success of its customers come before anything, and that has helped shape the firm's mission of being the best in the accounting industry.

Their co-founders have IT backgrounds, and this is the first clue that they’re not your typical accounting firm. The second clue highlighting their difference is the emphasis they put on soft skills. The happiness of their employees and the success of their customers come before anything, and that has helped shape their mission of being in the accounting industry. 

Although Le Contrôleur has used QuickBooks Online and Dext for clients since starting the business, one important piece of the puzzle was missing: they needed an app to help their clients approve financial documents, and it needed to be easy enough for decision-makers to use right away.

For a particular group of clients, the need for approval management software became increasingly obvious to Felix – they were clients that the team couldn’t see in person every month, so accounting services were provided to these clients remotely.

One client was an engineering and construction company with project managers scattered across Canada. The company would get up to 650 invoices each month, and each project manager needed to review and approve up to 50 invoices. With this many people, Felix knew that raising purchase orders and approving invoices manually was never going to be a viable solution.

Today, ApprovalMax is the only app in Le Contrôleur’s tech stack where the clients go in and use it themselves. Felix is happy that ApprovalMax is able to bridge the gap between the client and the accounting firm, and pushes high-quality, authorised data to the accounting system fast. He says it’s a good thing when monthly management accounting reports for clients can be prepared in a week, instead of a month.

ApprovalMax’s ‘Bill-to-purchase order matching’ is a feature that is proving to be very handy. It is another time saver, not only for Le Contrôleur’s construction and engineering clients but also for their clients who are running service businesses too. Matching incoming bills with the relevant purchase order used to be a time-consuming task – they had to match the total amounts and then reach out to the person who raised the purchase order to confirm the full delivery of the goods or services, which would slow the process down. With ApprovalMax serving as an approval routing solution for QuickBooks Online, Felix says this is no longer the case.