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SaaS Financial Audits: 5 Tips for a SaaS Company's Financial Audit

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The following are some of the reasons why a SaaS financial audit is different: Recurring payments. SaaS companies sell their software on monthly subscription models, whereby the user has to pay a monthly fee to continue using the software. Long-term payment structures. Have an effective accounting system.

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SaaS Sales Tax and What You Need to Know [2020] | ProfitWell

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For tax purposes, software companies can fall into one of three categories according to U.S. This post will only be discussing the last one, as that's the one that matches the definition of software-as-a-service that we're using. Software accessed by the cloud Here is what we refer to when we talk about software-as-a-service.