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Dreyer's English: A Book Recommendation

I am in the process of reading Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer. There are a lot of inconsistencies and oddities in English, and the author goes into great detail, in a fun and charming way, by providing crisp and concise ways of describing many common pitfalls of grammar. It is a great book to boost your confidence in your writing.

Grammar books are often dry, but Benjamin provides amusing cases and examples to make grammar lessons memorable. I highly recommend giving this book a read.

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Xero Accounting Software

I attended a Intro to Xero workshop today. I learned that cloud accounting is the way of the future and not moving forward with this trend maybe costly if you do not merge your clients to the cloud. The promise of the cloud is working with one data on one platform which allows for a better connection with clients because you can always check in with clients as they are going through the bookkeeping process rather than at year end. Furthermore, with the bank feeds which makes data entry easier and less error prone. Client will actual use the software more frequently and get better reports for sale figures and HST reports. Therefore, the cloud enables so much more than the traditional bookkeeping software which is usually on the clients desktop inaccessible to the accountant, so mistakes cannot be identified until year end.

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Income Tax for Yoga Instructors

Introduction

To become a yoga instructor, you most certainly spent a lot of your time, energy and not to mention your hard-earned “cash” for yoga instructor training. You completed the training, and you earned respect and experience to become a professional yoga instructor. As a result, you are now making money as a yoga instructor at one or multiple yoga studios. So the question is, how does a yoga instructor report their earnings on their personal tax return?