True Bottom Line of a Long-Term Successful Business
In this video, Startup Canada spoke with Jessica Ross from Nova Scotia, who took her post-university experience working for a catering company to the next level by becoming the founder of her own...
View ArticleBridging the Financial Literacy Gap
In February 2013, Startup Canada and Intuit partnered together on a special event with leading experts and entrepreneurs to discuss financial literacy of entrepreneurs and approaches to bridging the...
View ArticleStarting Up Part Time – Google Hangout
Learn from three entrepreneurs and experts from the tech and retail sectors on how to start up part-time and transition to full-time. Learn the benefits, challenges and approaches to starting up...
View ArticleGet the Functionality and Flexibility You Need — for $1,000s Less
Get the Functionality and Flexibility You Need — for $1,000s Less When your business has outgrown your QuickBooks Pro or Premier and you are looking for accounting solutions that can meet your new...
View ArticleQuickBooks ProAdvisor – A Smart Choice for Small Businesses
If you have ever gone on a hike in unfamiliar territory, or walked through a city in a foreign country, you will know the value of a good guide in the real world. If that guide was to be certified by a...
View ArticleWhat’s New in QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions for 2014
This month, I’d been asked to write about what’s new in QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions for 2014, and believe me, these are just my favourites. A blog article just can’t do justice to these great new...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight: YogaVision
Modern day Yogi and Yoga Therapist, Salimah Kassim-Lakha has travelled internationally using the technology of Yoga to lead, heal, teach and transform. After years of studying and teaching as an...
View ArticleWe Care and Give Back: Youth Without Shelter
Intuit Canada is proud to give back to the community through our We Care and Give Back program. It provides each Intuit employee with 32 hours of volunteer time during work hours, encouraging everyone...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight: Slingshot
The Canadian telco industry is a tough one to crack, but that hasn’t stopped entrepreneur Edwin Frondozo. Edwin’s company Slingshot provides cloud based, voip network services for small and medium...
View ArticleWe Care and Give Back: Habitat for Humanity
Social responsibility is more than just an ethical theory at Intuit; it’s a culture. Employees are given paid time off to volunteer to benefit society at large in whatever small way we can. On June...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight: Michelle Vandenbosch
Five years ago Ottawa floral designer Michelle Vandenbosch would go weeks, sometimes months between opening her accounting software. “Just the visual of (it) made me sick, it was like a prison. It...
View ArticleSave time and money using Receipt Bank with QuickBooks Desktop
QuickBooks Desktop already gives you one place to efficiently organize all your finances and now there’s a quicker and easier way to collect all your financial data in the first place! The...
View ArticleChanges are coming to PST in QuickBooks Online
If you have turned on Provincial Sales Tax (PST) in QuickBooks Online for BC, SK or MB and use it for purchases there are some changes you need to know about in the latest release of QBO. Previously,...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight: ALIVE Outdoors
1. Tell us about your business. ALIVE Outdoors is an experiential and outdoor education company specializing in the creation and delivery of customized, meaningful programs for schools and...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight – Teresa Woolard from Swirleez
1. Tell us about your business. Our family-owned business is a self-serve frozen yogurt business named Swirleez. In addition to frozen-yogurt, we also serve homemade crepes, waffles, frozen yogurt...
View ArticleMake the Most of Financial Literacy Month
November is Financial Literacy Month, which conveniently follows Small Business Month. ‘Financial literacy’ refers to the skills, knowledge, and confidence to make confident financial decisions. The...
View ArticleQuickBooks Update: November 2014
Our November QuickBooks update is a big one! Major changes: Home page tasks. Know at a glance if you have sales transactions in your print and send queues, checks you need to print, payments you need...
View ArticleHow one Toronto Startup is Taking on Goliath
Slingshot is a cloud-based business Voice over IP (VoIP) phone service provider offering small business owners complete communication freedom. The service is leveling the industry playing field by...
View ArticleTrack it all the way to the bank – TSheets for QBO is here!
I can’t help but get excited about this one. TSheets for QBO has arrived! These guys are the #1 most employee-requested time tracker. If that isn’t an endorsement, I don’t know what is. For employers,...
View ArticleEliminate Expense Reports with Xpenditure
What is Xpenditure? Just take a picture of your receipts and Xpenditure reads out all relevant data, such as amount, merchant and even currency used. You can add your own meta information such as...
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