A Dubai consultant who has never dealt with CRA. A Canadian accountant who has never seen a free zone licence. Neither is doing a bad job. The expensive mistakes happen in the space between them: the Dubai company that quietly creates a Canadian tax bill. The incorporation done before anyone checked where you would be resident. The year-end rebuilt from scratch.
Most accountants are never taught that space either. Cross-border work and AI in the finance function are the two skills clients now expect, and almost nobody teaches them together.
I work in that gap, on both sides.For founders, I handle it. For accountants, I teach it.