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- AccountingJuly 29, 20269 min read
Sage 50 vs QuickBooks Online: what you actually give up moving from desktop to cloud
Sage 50 still does things QuickBooks Online cannot. QuickBooks Online does things Sage 50 was never built to do. The right answer depends on which limitation you can live with, not which product is newer.
Ahmad Raza Hassan, Founder and editor
- TaxJuly 27, 20268 min read
GST, HST and PST explained for a US business selling into Canada
The US sales tax rules you already know do not transfer. Canada runs a different system entirely, and the point where you owe money is not where most US sellers expect it to be.
Ahmad Raza Hassan, Founder and editor
- AccountingJuly 24, 20268 min read
Moving off spreadsheets and into real accounting software without losing a year of history
The software part of this migration is the easy part. The part that actually goes wrong is the six months of history sitting in a workbook nobody fully trusts anymore.
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