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The Internet began its tremendous rise around the 1990s with estimated growth by 100 percent per year. This growth introduced the Internet into everyday life styles and even reformed the traditional way of business with a practice known as Electronic Business (e-Business). Electronic business is more than just selling goods and services in the online environment. It is to use online tools and assets to do business better, more efficiently and productively. E-Business can be rewarding for any business but small businesses are reaping the benefits the most.

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(Canwest News Service  Published: Wednesday, January 13, 2010)

The federal government will match individual donations to registered Canadian charitable organizations for up to $50-million to support humanitarian and early recovery assistance in Haiti.  Canadians have until  February  12 to donate to registered charities, and CIDA will allocate the $50-million.

Below is a checklist of last minute items your business should consider as you finalize and implement your 2010 business readiness plan.

Ensure that you have sufficient signing authorities in place for the Games period.
Review current bank deposit procedures and determine if you need to deposit at alternate locations.
If your business hours change, review your night deposit requirements and armoured car services.
Complete upgrading of merchant service terminals to chip technology.

Contactor feature facilitates real-time project tracking and closes the communication loops between contractor and client. Businesses now have instant visibility into a contractor’s progress on a project in near real time, to rapidly respond to client questions and eliminate the time wasted with multiple emails and phone calls.

December 31st has come and gone. Was this the end of your fiscal year? If so, then it's time to start thinking about taxes and organizing the shoebox of receipts to send off to your accountant. Despite year-ends being the source of numerous sleepless nights and headaches, they are also the most important reports for any business to issue. They will be used for tax preparation, future reference, and smarter decision making. Below is a simple checklist of items you should prepare for your tax professional:

We will be away for the holidays for a day on either side of the weekend, so chat, emails, and phones will be unmanned. We will be up and operational as normal on Tuesday, December 29th.

If you do need to get a hold of us urgently, please drop a line at support[at]ledgersonline[dot]com and we will try and get back to you as soon as possible.

Best Wishes and Season's Greetings!

- The LedgersOnline Team

Prepared by Tyler Hudson, Articling CA Student

Google today announced that it was doing something a little different this year, and instead of dishing out gifts to their top Ad Sense and Ad Words users, it was donating $20 million to 25 charities.

Now if you want to go the conventional route, refreshing from an old blog post of ours, we've got some great ideas for holiday gifts for that entrepreneur in your life.

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LedgersOnline: Fresh Design, Simple Solutions

We are pleased to launch our redesigned website, www.ledgersonline.com. Our main goal continues to be to help grow your business - not your accounting department. Remember the excitement you experienced in launching your business? You were energized and brimming with ideas for making it the most it could be. We are here to help you reach your goals and alleviate the headaches associated with the accounting & bookkeeping process. We hope that this site will allow you to get to know us better.

We have been working on putting together a new website over the fall that we are hoping to launch soon.