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.
Quebec
Accounting software for Quebec
Bookkeeping, 5% GST and 9.975% QST and year-end working papers for Quebec businesses and the accountants who serve them — online or on Windows, with payroll posting into the same books.
Books in Quebec
What Quebec books have to get right
Quebec payroll uses the QPP, QPIP and Revenu Québec source deductions — different from the rest of Canada.
Quebec is the one that catches people out. Sales carry 5% GST and 9.975% QST, both are recoverable on purchases, and both are filed with Revenu Québec rather than split between two tax authorities. BooksAuto keeps GST and QST apart through the ledger, so the return is not an exercise in separating one figure into two afterwards.
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 Quebec is in the same program, so wages, Revenu Québec and CRA source deductions and the employer cost post themselves onto the accounts you picked — nothing re-keyed from a payroll summary.
Accounting features
What you need to keep a set of books in Quebec
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 Quebec 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
Quebec accounting questions
What sales tax does BooksAuto charge for a Quebec company?
A Quebec company charges 5% GST and 9.975% QST. 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/QST return?
Yes. The GST and QST return is built from the ledger, with the working behind each figure, and both taxes are filed with Revenu Québec. BooksAuto keeps them apart from the moment a transaction is coded rather than splitting one figure into two afterwards.
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 Quebec
The rest of BooksAuto
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