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Start budgeting with Zoho Books the easy way
For your business performance to be successful in the long run, budget management is crucial. However, this can be a time-consuming task. In this article, we explain what Zoho Books can do for...
Everything you need to know about e-invoicing with Zoho Books
If you are integrating Zoho CRM into your workplace or have done so already, then you should get acquainted with Zoho Books. As a one-stop platform for organizing your transactions and handling all...
What makes Zoho Analytics a true unified data analytics platform
Fragmentation has always been a feature of the data analytics field. The reason for this is that business intelligence (BI) and data management have always been separate silos in many organizations....
Why Do You Need HCM Software?
In today's competitive business ecosystem, it can be difficult to maintain a productive and motivated workforce. As companies grow and evolve, they are at risk of outgrowing their human resources...
What is Accounting Software?
Accounting software is a fundamental part of any business. It doesn't matter if a company sells shoes or engines, accounting and bookkeeping are essential to understand the success of a business and...
Stages of Growth of a Company and Type of Funding
For each stage of its development, a company needs a funding method adapted to its growth. Whether it is equity to launch a project, credit to support its commercial development or to propel new...
SME Financing | What Is Self-Financing
It can be difficult for a start-up company to get funding because of the risk involved for investors and banking institutions. However, an effective way to increase cash flow can be to optimize the...
Zoho Projects: Resource Workload Planning
You have a well-structured, organized CRM that gives you great visibility into your current and upcoming sales and what actions need to be taken by your sales team to complete current opportunities....
What Is a Debenture?
A debenture is a long-term financing instrument used primarily by companies that have a steady source of income. In the last few years, this type of financing has regularly been used for start-ups,...
Zoho CRM Glossary
Thinking of implementing a CRM? But what does it mean and how does it work? The implementation of a CRM allows a better management of the customer relationship (Customer Relation Management). It...
What is Zoho Expense?
Pulling receipts out of your wallet, filling out the Excel file ... I can tell I've lost you already. The expense account process is a tedious headache for managers of many companies. What if I told...
Financial Risk Management in Business
Financial and economic risks are part of everyday reality for businesses in any industry. Regardless of the size of the company, business leaders must spend time planning financial strategy,...
Project Management | Key Features of Zoho Projects
Managing a project, whether simple or complex, requires outstanding organization. A project manager must ensure that all the conditions for success are in place to achieve the strategic goals set....
Top 10 Business Performance Indicators (SME)
As an entrepreneur, it is essential to measure and master your key indicators to analyze your performance, anticipate your needs and follow your development with precision. Business performance...
What Are the Key Features of a CRM?
Maintaining a good relationship with customers and potential customers is a fundamental aspect of any business. Although this relationship can be natural and intuitive, it can quickly become complex...
Business Intelligence Guide
Business intelligence is a strong and growing trend in all business sectors and has proven itself over the past 15 years. Data collection, information organization, exploitation and analysis;...
What is Zoho Inventory?
All growing companies know the importance of perfect customer relationship management. A CRM software (Customer Relation Management) gathers different tools that are used to identify, process and...
How to Manage Your Cash Flow
Covid-19 has brought new challenges to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by creating a climate of insecurity. In recent months, many companies have had to adjust their business model and cut...
4.3M USD for Flyscan
Flyscan Secures $4.3 Million in Venture Capital Funding with Strategic Investor Enbridge As the President of Flyscan Systems, (a Benzene threat and leak detection platform), Eric Bergeron, planned...
ZOHO Social | All Your Social Networks in One Place
Nowadays, does your company have a real brand image if it's not on social networks? It's impossible not to admit that social networks are essential to showcase brands, products, services and even...
ZOHO One | The most successful SaaS company
As a business, it makes sense to state that a good customer experience translates into a more sustainable and monetizable customer base. Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms are...
New Product: Zoho Bigin
A new software from Zoho has just been released! Specially designed for small businesses and self-employed workers, this "light" version of the CRM is now available. Zoho Bigin is a software that...
Startup Grants: Business Financing
When entrepreneurs are looking for funding, there are various forms of assistance, which are often available to them in the form of grants, and other types of funding for startups. Knowing what they...
Zoho Analytic Features
Whether your company is a small business or a multinational, Zoho Analytics allows you to make informed decisions to maximize your day-to-day management. It is a white-label business intelligence...
Financial Analysis and Zoho Analytics
Life story - A Financial Analyst Amongst Accountants It was in August 2018, after obtaining my B.A.A in finance that I started my professional career at Cofinia. My mandate was to participate in the...
What We Have Learned in Coaching SAAS Companies in the Last Few Years
Since founding Cofinia in 2016, I have been fortunate to work with a few companies that have developed apps that they have marketed in SAAS (software as a solution) mode. The financial dynamics of...
Programs to Provide Financial Assistance to Quebec Businesses
In our article published on June 17, we announced the end of the PACME Enterprise and Group Developers components for companies that applied after May 27 ( Business component) and after June 15 (...
Your CAJRP Application Has Been Denied? Here Are the Alternatives!
The Concerted Action for Job Retention Program (CAJRP-COVID-19) was launched on April 6 to provide direct financial support to businesses and self-employed workers to promote training, digital...
Life as an Entrepreneur – Sales
What scared me the most when I started Cofinia: selling. I had never done any sales. Not even close. I thought it was funny when, in the fall of 2016, I created a CRM account to manage my 4 clients...
How to Reduce Accounting Costs
Cost reduction is one of the main objectives of any company in order to improve its profitability. If this is one of your goals, keep in mind that cost reduction should affect your company's...
8 Common Accounting Mistakes to Avoid
For a business manager, accounting is usually not very exciting. You have to do your billing, pay your employees, pay your taxes and make your instalments. For many, these steps are handled by an...
Accounting: How to Migrate to the Cloud?
There are so many advantages to using a cloud based accounting that migrating from a locally installed system, such as Sage50, Avantage or Acomba, is not even an option. However, data migration is a...
5 Accounting Tips to Check Your Bookkeeping
Cofinia has been assisting SMEs with business and accounting management since 2016. Many clients have approached us to help them update their business accounting, knowing there was an issue....
Profitability Analysis of a Service Company
With cloud apps, it's becoming easier to have (near) real time access to our company's financial performance. Of course, as an accountant, I'm pretty well equipped to analyze the numbers. However,...
5 Advantages of Cloud Accounting
Here are the main benefits of cloud accounting: Increase productivity Benefit from the latest technologies Simplify the implementation of your software Reduce your costs Reduce IT management Are...
What are the Benefits of Online Accounting?
Connectivity, character recognition, automation and a step towards artificial intelligence. New cloud systems are drastically changing the way accounting is done. They include tools to simplify...
Why Move Towards Outsourcing?
The current situation of full employment is causing companies to compete for skilled labor. Companies are currently scrambling to attract the best talent. But what if you are still looking for the...
The Importance of Managing a Company’s Cash Flow
What Is a Company's Cash Flow? Cash flow is one of the main indicators of a company's financial situation. It is a financial report that allows you to track the company's income and expenses for a...
How to Calculate Work in Progress (Accounting)?
Making a loss at the end of the year due to a bad evaluation of the work in progress is damaging for a company. Revenues and profits can be artificially created during the year, but reality always...
How to Calculate the Cost of Benefits
Benefit plans are a great way to attract and retain employees, but do you know the cost of your benefits? In the past, I had two bad experiences when renewing group insurance for the companies...
A Tool to Get Your Expense Account Done Faster
Looking for the most efficient expense account software: Even accountants stress about keeping track of expenses. Keeping mileage records, keeping all receipts (and for meals, the bill AND the...
An Entrepreneur’s Story: The beginnings of Cofinia
The story of Cofinia started in 2015, I was contemplating my professional future. As I was reading about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs, I was wondering if I had the profile to start a company....
An entrepreneur’s life story – Cofinia’s Ups & Downs
In an entrepreneur's life, there are ups and downs, there will always be some, you have to get used to it. While reading, there was a passage that I remembered, unfortunately I don't remember where...
Entrepreneurial insights | Digital marketing
For those of you who don't know or have forgotten (probably 99% of the people who know me), I did a Bachelor's degree in Marketing. Then I started working in accounting and didn't think it was that...
Starting a business 101
Quebec is filled with people ready to start a business, with new ideas, incongruous, sometimes questionable but often innovative and value creating. These geniuses, these visionaries, these...
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