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Undeposited Funds in QBO: What It Is and Why It Matters for Your GST/HST Sep 06, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

If a QuickBooks Online balance sheet shows an "Undeposited Funds" account w...

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Invoice vs. Receipt: What's the Difference and Why It Matters bookkeeping invoicing and payments Sep 05, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

These two documents get used loosely and sometimes interchangeably in every...

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Catch-Up Bookkeeping in Canada: A Step-by-Step Guide bookkeeping Sep 05, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

If your books are behind — three months, a year, longer — this is exactly h...

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Behind on Your Bookkeeping? Here's Exactly Where to Start Sep 05, 2026

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

If the books have been put off for weeks, or months, and opening the accounti...

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What to Do With a QBO File Full of Ask My Accountant quickbooks online Sep 05, 2026

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

Opening QuickBooks Online to a long list of transactions sitting under "Ask M...

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Year-End Bookkeeping Checklist Before You See Your Accountant bookkeeping Sep 05, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

Walking into year-end with clean, organized books changes what an accountan...

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Business vs. Hobby: How the CRA Tells the Difference cra self-employed Sep 04, 2026

 

A side project that starts making money raises a real question: is this a business now, with all the reporting obligations that come with it, or is it still just a hobby that happens to bring in a ...

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Input Tax Credits: What You Can and Can't Claim Back gst/hst Sep 04, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

Input tax credits are how a GST/HST registered business avoids simply absor...

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Payroll Remittance Due Dates in Canada Explained cra deadlines payroll Sep 04, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

Every business with a payroll account has a remitter type, and that type — ...

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Cash Flow vs. Profit: Why They're Not the Same Thing financial reports Sep 04, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

A business can be profitable on paper and still run out of money in the ban...

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Retained Earnings Explained Simply Sep 03, 2026

 

Retained earnings shows up on every corporation's balance sheet, and it's one of the more commonly misunderstood numbers there. Retained earnings is an equity account, not a bank account — it isn't...

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CPP and EI for the Self-Employed Sep 03, 2026

 

Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.

Many newly self-employed Canadians are surprised to learn that CPP and EI a...

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