The books, already speaking CRA
The CRA wants your financials in GIFI codes, and every year somebody rebuilds that mapping by hand. SeroBooks suggests codes per account, lets you bulk-accept or override one by one, and keeps the mapping alive as the chart evolves.
What you get
GIFI is a mapping, not a mystery
The CRA's T2 return wants your accounts expressed as GIFI codes. SeroBooks holds the mapping on the chart itself: every account with its assigned code, and — until you assign one — a suggested code derived from the account's type and name, shown with what the CRA calls it. 102 accounts, each with a suggestion waiting to be accepted or corrected.
Suggestions are advice, deliberately: only a code you assign is ever exported, because a guessed code filed to the CRA is exactly what this screen refuses to do.
Accept all, then fix the exceptions
Accept-all-suggestions maps the routine ninety percent in one click; the screen then shows what is still unmapped, and the handful of judgment calls get made by a human — usually your accountant, in minutes. From-column transparency shows whether each suggestion came from the sub-type or the account name.
The GIFI schedule then reads the mapped chart with balances — the year-end export your accountant's tax software imports.
Why this is rare in this class
GIFI preparation is normally where small-business books leave the software and enter the accountant's spreadsheet. Keeping it in the product — beside the CCA schedule and the year-end checklist — means the T2 package assembles from the ledger itself.
It is a feature accountants notice, which is the point: SeroBooks is built to be the software your accountant approves of.
Frequently asked questions
Does SeroBooks file my T2?
No — it prepares the GIFI schedule your accountant or tax software files from. The preparation is the annual pain; that is the part that is now done.