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How to Spot a Phishing Attack
Text from the e-mail sounds legitimate enough, but in reality, you may be the victim of a phishing attack. Identity thieves, masquerading as Royal Bank, PayPal, or other financial or Internet companies, try to dupe you into clicking phony links to verify personal or...
New Income Tax Forms for Canada
The new year brings some changes to personal income tax for Canadians. Here are the 2017 TD1 forms for you and your employees: Federal TD1: https://www.abovestudio1.com/forms/td1-fill-17e.pdf Alberta TD1: https://www.abovestudio1.com/forms/td1ab-fill-17e.pdf And for...
above.care™ Managed Services: Terms of Engagement
above.care™ Tight Managed Services Terms of Engagement We like Plain English over heretofore and wherein. This document explains in plain english what an above.care™ Tight Managed Services membership is, and how it benefits you. We update this document...
The Personal Apple ID in a Corporate World: an FAQ for employees
Helping companies change their world is an exciting responsibility. When a small or medium sized business invests in a fleet of Apple devices, we sometimes have to help people understand why things are done a certain way. Confusion around Apple IDs and how / why we...
Early Adopters Eat the Others for Breakfast
There are lots of opinions about the importance of constant improvement of your business operations, but no on puts it as succinctly as Andy Lark, CMO of Xero. I've seen it over and over. Small businesses spend some time and money implementing a system that's...
Join Our Digital Detox This Weekend
Do your clients think you're always on call? As a business person running your own company, it's easy to fall into a routine of keeping your iPhone beside your bed, answering text messages and emails from the moment you open your eyes in the morning, to the moment you...
Email: Your Business’ Forgotten Intellectual Property
Small businesses depend on their email more than ever, and too often when we're introduced to a new client, we find considerable weaknesses in their email systems. One of the best things we bring to our new SME (Small and medium-sized enterprise) clients is a kind of...
Alberta Gains a Cloud Accounting Expert
In today’s competitive business world, companies must evolve if they are to survive and thrive. Today, 1 week after attending the annual Xero conference in Denver, Above Studio 1 attained Bronze Certified Partner status from Xero, maker of the world’s most beautiful...
Suzanne Morter (CMA, B.Mgt.) Joins Our Team
I'm delighted to announce that Suzanne Morter (CMA, B.Mgt.) has joined our team. Now, our clients can benefit from "turn-key" accounting setup, bookkeeping counsel, and "business intelligence"-- and they'll also love her warm, energetic and tactical approach. From...
Backup, before you wish you had.
We recently added Backblaze to our toolkit and you should too. It's possibly the most affordable way to backup your entire Mac to the cloud. It's simple, efficient, and even hooks into our Monitoring system so we can oversee it for you. An added feature is the ability...