Glen Korstrom
Northern News Services

INUVIK (Apr 23/99) - A little more than two years ago, Denny Rodgers and Gerry Hamilton left financial jobs at the town office in Inuvik to go out on their own.

Together, they set up a business -- Haylor Business Services, Haylor coming from the combination of the names of Rodgers' two children: Hayley and Tylor.

Rodgers and Hamilton share work on clients' business needs, from developing initial business plans to going through all accounting aspects.

"I can tell you without even letting him speak that his favourite part is doing personal tax returns," Hamilton says of Rodgers.

"It's something he happens to be particularly good at."

But while Rodgers is quick to add that training clients to be able to run their own businesses is also a favourite part of the job, he enjoys the one-on-one interaction from doing someone's tax return.

Rodgers then reflects on his business partner's forte.

"I'd probably say Gerry's favourite part would have to be something analytical," he says.

"Probably incorporated companies and probably dealing with roll-overs and corporations, taking a business, analyzing it and then rolling it into an incorporated company."

Haylor's clients include both individuals and corporations such as various Inuvialuit communities. Hamilton says he has been working on some communities' accounts recently to get their books in shape for a financial report and audit.

"Some people play chess, some people play cards. I do corporate analysis work," Hamilton says of a job that he sometimes sees as recreational.

Outside work, Rodgers says he spends time with his children and partner Jo-anne Kinsella, as well as working on town issues as a councillor.

Hamilton spends time with partner Beth Waters and enjoys movies and recreational computer work.

The computer side of the job is one Hamilton says might separate the business from other ones. He has taken a keen interest in computers dating back decades.

Hamilton and Rodgers then took a jab at the federal government:

"Revenue Canada has two ways of doing things -- their way and the wrong way."