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.
Alberta
Accounting software for Alberta
Bookkeeping, 5% GST and year-end working papers for Alberta businesses and the accountants who serve them — online or on Windows, with payroll posting into the same books.
Books in Alberta
What Alberta books have to get right
Alberta payrolls swing with the seasons — energy, construction and agriculture bring overtime, bonuses and off-cycle runs.
Alberta charges 5% GST and no provincial sales tax, so there is one return and one recoverable tax. That makes the bookkeeping straightforward — the work is in getting the statements read, the transactions coded and the year-end file ready, which is where BooksAuto spends its effort.
Bank and credit card statements come in as a PDF, a scan or a CSV and are proved against the statement total, so nothing is dropped or counted twice. Transactions are coded to the chart of accounts and learn from your corrections. At year-end you get working papers A–N, the trial balance and the adjusting entries with the support behind each one.
Payroll for Alberta is in the same program, so wages, source deductions and the employer cost post themselves onto the accounts you picked — nothing re-keyed from a payroll summary.
Cities
Accounting software in Alberta cities
Accounting software CalgaryAccounting software EdmontonAccounting software Red DeerAccounting software LethbridgeAccounting software St. AlbertAccounting software AirdrieAccounting software Medicine HatAccounting software Grande PrairieAccounting software Spruce GroveAccounting software Fort McMurrayAccounting software OkotoksAccounting software Leduc
Accounting features
What you need to keep a set of books in Alberta
Categorized as it comes in
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.
GST, HST, PST and QST
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.
Customers, vendors and invoices
Invoices and bills with what is owed and owing, aged, and the payments matched against them.
Reconciliation you can show
Bank reconciliations with the outstanding items listed, so a reviewer can see why the books and the statement differ.
Working papers A–N
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.
Pricing
Pricing for Alberta businesses and firms
Same price everywhere in Canada — 50% off Payroll for your first year. Accounting firms: $3 Payroll + $3 Bookkeeping per client per month.
Questions
Alberta accounting questions
What sales tax does BooksAuto charge for a Alberta company?
A Alberta company charges 5% GST. BooksAuto uses the province on the company record, so a firm can keep books for clients in several provinces and each one is taxed on its own rates.
Does it prepare the GST return?
Yes. The return is built from the ledger rather than a spreadsheet, with the working behind every box and the input tax credits separated out, so a reviewer can follow how each figure was arrived at.
Can I bring books over from QuickBooks or Sage?
Yes. The chart of accounts, customers, vendors and the transaction history import, and the trial balance is compared against the one you came from so you can see that nothing moved.
Does payroll post into these books?
Yes. Wages, source deductions and the employer cost post themselves onto the accounts you choose per payroll item, so there is no journal entry and nothing re-keyed from a payroll summary.
Is it online or installed?
Both, and the same company can be opened either way: in a browser, or as a Windows program keeping the company file on your own machine.
Other provinces
Clients in more than one province?
One account covers them all, each on its own province's sales tax.
Also for Alberta
The rest of BooksAuto
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