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The income statement, also known as the profit and loss statement or P&L statement, is a key financial statement for e-commerce businesses and their bottom line. In this article, we'll go through what's on the income statement as well as what numbers are specifically relevant to e-commerce.

Amaka has partnered with leading wholesale order management platform for food service venues, Foodbomb, to launch their official integration to Xero.

The cash flow statement is often seen as the less straightforward financial statement for e-commerce businesses, especially when compared to the balance sheet and the income statement. However, just like its counterparts, understanding the cash flow statement is absolutely essential to keeping your business afloat.

The balance sheet is one of the many financial statements that is useful for e-commerce business owners to understand. In this article, we'll go through what's on the balance sheet, how to analyse it and the ratios you'll want to track. Please not, this isn't intended to be financial advice. We recommend reaching out to an accounting professional for further guidance.

If you're using Shopify Payments as your main payment gateway and you're looking to understand how to manage your accounting and bookkeeping, this article is for you. We'll go through what Shopify Payments is, how to make sure you've set it up correctly, the fees involved and how to properly manage your books when using it.

Though gift cards, otherwise known as gift vouchers or gift certificates, are a key cash generator for many e-commerce businesses, not everyone is doing the bookkeeping for gift cards correctly. To ensure you're making the most of the benefits, you'll want to be aware of how to properly account for them.

Inventory management for e-commerce businesses can be hard enough on its own and trying to figure out how to make sure numbers are correct in your accounting system can be even harder. In this article, we've teamed up with Unleashed Software, an inventory management software, to break these processes down and make them easier to manage.

Key performance indicators or KPIs are the data points that you want to regularly track and use to measure success in your e-commerce business. When you look up important KPIs to measure, you'll find lists of 30+ or even 60+ to consider. However, for most e-commerce businesses, especially in earlier stages, you only need to track a few for success.

The rise of the Accounting Technologist role, someone at the intersection of both accounting and technologist, is being observed across all kinds of people in the accounting industry. After interviewing accounting firms, we've started interviewing accounting apps to get a deep insight into what's going on behind the scenes in the accounting technology space.

Amaka is launching its much-anticipated Square integration to QuickBooks Online. The release is an addition to Amaka's existing Square + Xero integration and Square + MYOB integration.