As the sun shines brighter and the days get longer, Canadian business owners might find themselves drawn to outdoor activities and vacations. However, amidst the summer fun, it's crucial to keep your business's financial health in check.

Effective bookkeeping ensures that your business stays on track even during the summer months.

Here are some summer time bookkeeping tips tailored for Canadian entrepreneurs:

One of the best benefits of being a self-employed Canadian, or Business Owner, is the tax-saving benefits! Read here for a detailed list of 21 eligible business deduction categories in Canada along with some tips on how to automate and simplify your life when it comes to your bookkeeping!

Business Owner Burnout: how to recognize the signs, and what you can do about it. Here we share three practical strategies that will help you tackle the burnout that can happen to any business owner.

The Government of Canada describes the job of a bookkeeper/accountant as follows:

“Accounting technicians and bookkeepers maintain complete sets of books, keep records of accounts, verify the procedures used for recording financial transactions, and provide personal bookkeeping services. They are employed throughout the private and public sectors, or they may be self-employed.”

Sounds simple enough, right? The real questions are, what do those duties entail? What can they do for your business? What is their work like? Keep on reading if you’d like those questions answered!

Accounting can seem really confusing when you don’t know much about the terminology used. It’s much simpler than you think once you know what you’re talking about. So, let’s dive in and do some learning.

Let’s be honest, keeping your books organized is hard! When running an entire business, keeping on top of your bookkeeping seems impossible. Keeping your books all neat and organized is the last thing on your mind. Even so, you need to keep it organized.

So, what can you do about it? Well, here are some tips and tricks that just might be the solution to helping you to keep your books organized.

It takes a lot of time and effort to run a small business. Atop of everything you have to do, keeping up with your bookkeeping can seem like a frustrating burden you have to bear. It doesn’t have to be that way! If you want an easier time with your bookkeeping, why not give online bookkeeping services a try?

Still haven’t sold you on it yet? Well then here are some benefits of hiring online bookkeeping services that are sure to convince you to give it a try!

Here are four ways to get your business online, even if you’re a brick and mortar store. Whether it’s through simplifying processes or using different software, these tips will help you on your way to getting cloud-based.

Simplify, Downsize, Reduce Costs, Search-ability, and Productivity.