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Eileen has contributed to a variety of publications including:

  • Advisor Advantage available exclusively to Canadian QuickBooks ProAdvisors (Intuit Canada)
  • ProConnection Newsletter  (formerly published by Intuit Canada)              
  • Canadian MoneySaver 
  • Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada (IPBC)
    • Archive of past newsletters with Dear TaxDetective column

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15 Apr 2025    Dining Out
 
15 Mar 2026    HST Transition
 
15 Feb 2026    Tax Update Part 2
 
13 Jan 2026    Tax Update Part 1
 
11 Dec 2025    QuickBooks 2010 upgrade experience
 
15 Nov 2025    RRSP and RRIF Loss Carryback
 
13 Nov 2025    TL: The nursing home years
 
15 Oct 2025    Donations Receipting Workaround
 
12 Oct 2025    TL: Voluntary disclosure
 
29 Sep 2025    Tax Credits Benefit Families
 
11 Sep 2025    TL: Surviving an audit
 
28 Aug 2025    QuickBooks 2010 Overview
 
28 Aug 2025    Time keeps on slippin’ into the future
 
14 Aug 2025    TL: Know your options
 
15 Jul 2025    TL: Summer memories
 
2 Jul 2025    Tax Credits Benefit Families of Persons with Disabilities or Infirmities
 
14 Jun 2025    TL: Who represents you?
 
12 Jun 2025    Cashing Out
 
15 May 2025    TL: Is financial literacy enough?
 
6 May 2025    Control by Design
 
10 Apr 2025    TL: Home on the range
 
15 Mar 2026    TL: Granny is 'Googling'
 
12 Mar 2026    Warranty Work
 
15 Feb 2026    TL: Dreams of early retirement
 
12 Feb 2026    Rolling Out a Rollover
 
15 Jan 2026    TL: Gift Giving
 
15 Dec 2025    TL: Retirement Unravelled
 
15 Dec 2025    Write Up your Alley (Part 4)
 
17 Nov 2025    Write Up your Alley (Part 3)
 
15 Nov 2025    TL: Ingestion and digestion
 
2 Nov 2025    Tax Credits Benefit Families
 
15 Oct 2025    TL: Families ... the tie that binds
 
13 Oct 2025    Write Up your Alley (Part 2)
 
15 Sep 2025    TL: Options for investors ...
 
11 Sep 2025    Write Up your Alley (Part 1)
 
15 Aug 2025    Segregation From Your Money
 
15 Aug 2025    TL: Respect your limits
 
15 Jul 2025    TL The ABCs of ACBs
 
12 Jun 2025    TL Wrapped up in red tape
 
10 Jun 2025    Keeping the Boat Afloat (Part 2 of 2)
 
15 May 2025    TL Winning the GST audit race
 
6 May 2025    Keeping the Boat Afloat (Part 1 of 2)
 
1 May 2025    Perkin' Along
 
12 Apr 2025    TL Personal Service Peril
 
8 Apr 2025    GST Adjustments For Personal Use In QuickBooks 2008 (Part 2)
 
12 Mar 2026    TL Questions, questions
 
10 Mar 2026    GST Adjustments For Personal Use In QuickBooks 2008 (Part 1)
 
12 Feb 2026    TL Managing Payroll
 
12 Feb 2026    Getting Started with QuickBooks 2008
 
7 Feb 2026    Personal Tax Credits and Medical Expenses
 
12 Jan 2026    Free Marketing ToolKit
 
12 Jan 2026    TL Full Disclosure (T4's Box 85)
 
21 Dec 2025    Status of important Federal tax legislation
 
12 Dec 2025    TL: Best Kept Secrets
 
3 Dec 2025    Good News for Persons with Disabilities
 
1 Dec 2025    QuickBooks 2008 Sneak Preview
 
12 Nov 2025    ABCs of RDSPs
 
1 Nov 2025    Boarding the Train (Part Three)
 
12 Oct 2025    Put a Lid on It
 
1 Oct 2025    Boarding the Train (Part Two)
 
1 Sep 2025    Travel Solo at Your Peril
 
1 Sep 2025    Boarding the Train (Part One)
 
1 Sep 2025    Looking for Consequences
 
1 Aug 2025    Can you afford to retire?
 
1 Jul 2025    All T4's are not created equal
 
1 Jun 2025    Cottage Life
 
1 Jun 2025    Reporting for Duty
 
1 Jun 2025    Inter-Company Balancing Act
 
1 Jun 2025    Unintentionally Losing Ground
 
1 May 2025    Tomorrow's Money Today
 
1 May 2025    10 Most Wanted
 
1 May 2025    Giving Credit to Seniors
 
1 Apr 2026    Catch & Release
 
1 Apr 2026    Raising the Bar - Oath of Obligation
 
1 Apr 2026    Search out those hidden tax breaks
 
15 Mar 2026    The evidence chain
 
3 Mar 2026    Heads Up - Liability for Non Profit Organizations
 
3 Mar 2026    Tools of the Trade
 
1 Mar 2026    Property Ownership Bandwagon
 
15 Feb 2026    Caregiver Conundrum
 
3 Feb 2026    Tracking Time
 
1 Feb 2026    Invisible Potential
 
15 Jan 2026    The Real Deal
 
15 Jan 2026    GIFI Guide
 
1 Jan 2026    • Tax Facts 2007
 
31 Dec 2025    Renovate, Construct, Move, Dwelling Devices
 
15 Dec 2025    • Lights Camera Action ...
 
15 Dec 2025    Who's the fairest of us all?
 
1 Dec 2025    • Beef up your Practice
 
25 Nov 2025    • Name that Journal
 
10 Nov 2025    Red tape peril!
 
1 Nov 2025    • Shareholder Benefits - Protect Yourself
 
1 Nov 2025    • Bumping Up and Bumping Down
 
25 Oct 2025    • Payin' the Bills
 
6 Oct 2025    The Road Not Yet Travelled
 
1 Oct 2025    • Compilation versus Tax Return Engagements
 
23 Sep 2025    • "In Use" Button
 
15 Sep 2025    Uncovering Hidden Credits
 
1 Sep 2025    • Comprehensive Income
 
15 Aug 2025    Closing the books for good
 
15 Jul 2025    • Open the books on non-profits
 
15 Jun 2025    • My Account is Your Account
 
15 Jun 2025    • Barter, the Perfect Solution?
 
15 Jun 2025    Fight Club
 
15 May 2025    Flow Thru Gambit
 
15 May 2025    • Kick Back Boxing
 
1 May 2025    • Backfiring Donations
 
15 Apr 2025    Small-biz Tax-filing Tactics
 
10 Apr 2025    • Why do we do this? Accounting, that is...
 
3 Apr 2026    • WIP those lawyers into shape
 
15 Mar 2026    • But, it's my money
 
15 Mar 2026    Accounting for Trust
 
3 Mar 2026    • A Leap Forward with Quickbooks
 
16 Feb 2026    • Drivin' my life away, lookin' for a sunny day...
 
15 Feb 2026    Tax law limbo
 
7 Feb 2026    • Put Money in Your Bank
 
29 Jan 2026    • FOFI Future Oriented Financial Information
 
18 Jan 2026    New Canadian Winter Games
 
15 Jan 2026    Tax Facts 2006 Updated
 
1 Jan 2026    • Something for Nothing
 
22 Dec 2025    Tax is not a Team Sport
 
23 Nov 2025    Altered states of being...
 
23 Oct 2025    Practice with your own money
 
1 Oct 2025    • Are you missing something?
 
19 Sep 2025    Disability Tax Credit - Gold Mine or Mine Field
 
20 Jul 2025    Practice Review of T1's
 
20 Jun 2025    Managing Risk
 
22 Apr 2025    Shoe Box Clients
 
1 Apr 2026    • Reasonable Expectation of Profit
 
24 Mar 2026    Revised Form 1013 - Authorization to Speak to CRA
 
24 Mar 2026    Creatures of Habit... Km Logs..
 
24 Mar 2026    Stress Reducer Tool Kit
 
4 Mar 2026    Discretionary Trusts
 
1 Mar 2026    • Pay Less Tax
 
21 Feb 2026    Family Tree
 
16 Feb 2026    • Cost of Accounting for Caregiver and Respite Care
 
1 Feb 2026    Cumulative profit requirement for each business or property
 
1 Feb 2026    T1 Tax Return Checklist
 
1 Feb 2026    • Check your Paycheque!
 
1 Jan 2026    2005 Tax Facts Updates for Processing 2004 T1 and T2 Returns
 
1 Jan 2026    • Surviving a Tax Audit
 
26 Dec 2025    Tax Credits Benefit Families of Persons with Disabilities
 
1 Dec 2025    • Tax Credit Lottery
 
23 Nov 2025    The 2004 Medical Expense Tax Credit and Learning DIsabilities
 
1 Oct 2025    • Face Time is Money - Relationship Building
 
1 Oct 2025    Practicing Safe Tax
 
1 Sep 2025    Medical Expenses - Renovating, New Construction and Moving
 
1 Aug 2025    • Claiming the Tax Credits you Deserve
 
19 Jan 2026    One minute you have it, the next it's gone
 
15 Jan 2026    The Organizational Challenge
 
1 Jan 2026    Invoices-the Silent Ambassador
 




 

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