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.
British Columbia
Accounting software for British Columbia
Bookkeeping, 5% GST and 7% PST and year-end working papers for British Columbia businesses and the accountants who serve them — online or on Windows, with payroll posting into the same books.
Books in British Columbia
What British Columbia books have to get right
From Lower Mainland restaurants to Okanagan wineries and Island trades, B.C. firms juggle many small payrolls with different pay schedules.
British Columbia charges 5% GST and 7% PST, and the two do not behave the same way. GST you paid on purchases comes back as an input tax credit; PST generally does not, so it belongs in the cost of the thing you bought. Software that treats sales tax as a single rate per company gets this wrong quietly and overstates the refund. BooksAuto keeps them on separate accounts from the moment a transaction is coded.
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 British Columbia 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 British Columbia cities
Accounting software VancouverAccounting software SurreyAccounting software BurnabyAccounting software RichmondAccounting software AbbotsfordAccounting software CoquitlamAccounting software LangleyAccounting software DeltaAccounting software ChilliwackAccounting software KelownaAccounting software KamloopsAccounting software VictoriaAccounting software NanaimoAccounting software Prince GeorgeAccounting software Maple RidgeAccounting software New WestminsterAccounting software North VancouverAccounting software VernonAccounting software PentictonAccounting software Mission
Accounting features
What you need to keep a set of books in British Columbia
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 British Columbia 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
British Columbia accounting questions
What sales tax does BooksAuto charge for a British Columbia company?
A British Columbia company charges 5% GST and 7% PST. 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/PST 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.
Is PST recoverable in British Columbia?
Generally no — GST paid on purchases comes back as an input tax credit, while PST usually forms part of the cost of what you bought. BooksAuto keeps the two on separate accounts, because software that treats sales tax as one rate per company overstates the refund without saying so.
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 British Columbia
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