Any statement, proved to the cent
Bank and credit card statements read straight from a PDF, a scan or a CSV — then balanced against the statement total, so nothing is quietly dropped or doubled.
Bookkeeping, sales tax and year-end working papers for Canadian businesses and the accountants who serve them — with payroll posting straight into the same books. Sales tax is not the same in any two provinces, so pick yours to see what applies.
Sales tax is the part that differs: GST alone in Alberta and the territories, GST with a provincial tax in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec, and HST at three different rates in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces. Each company uses its own province's rates.
Most accounting software sold in Canada was written somewhere else and had the Canadian parts added afterwards. It shows in the places that cost an accountant time: sales tax treated as one rate per company rather than GST and a provincial tax that behave differently, input tax credits that have to be picked apart by hand, and a year-end file that has to be rebuilt in a spreadsheet before anyone can review it.
BooksAuto starts from the Canadian side. The sales tax return comes out of the ledger with the working behind every box. Working papers A–N are part of the file, not something you assemble afterwards. And because payroll is in the same program, wages, source deductions and the employer cost post themselves onto the accounts you chose — no journal entry, and no re-keying a payroll summary from another system.
It runs in a browser or as a Windows program with the company file on your own machine, whichever you prefer — and the same company can be opened either way.
Bank and credit card statements read straight from a PDF, a scan or a CSV — then balanced against the statement total, so nothing is quietly dropped or doubled.
Transactions are coded to the chart of accounts and learn from the corrections you make, so the second month takes a fraction of the first.
The sales tax return comes out of the ledger rather than a spreadsheet, with the working behind every figure and the input tax credits separated out.
Invoices and bills with what is owed and owing, aged, and the payments matched against them.
Bank reconciliations with the outstanding items listed, so a reviewer can see why the books and the statement differ.
The year-end file an accountant actually hands over: lead sheets, the trial balance, the adjusting entries and the support behind each one.
Payroll posts itself into these books, so wages, source deductions and the employer cost land on the right accounts without a journal entry.
Same price everywhere in Canada — 50% off Payroll for your first year. Accounting firms: $3 Payroll + $3 Bookkeeping per client per month.
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