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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

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The gist of it is that Cost of Revenue includes costs that go into providing your Software as a Service. It’s up to you if you want to group up all software in one category under Cost of Revenue, or several software categories under hosting, support, and service delivery. Jason Cohen breaks down the question in his Quora post.

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Bulletproof your software with these 12 best application security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM & WAF)

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Cloud Security Platform Management (CSPM) Microsoft defines a CSPM tool as one that "identifies and remediates risk by automating visibility, uninterrupted monitoring, threat detection, and remediation workflows to search for misconfigurations across diverse cloud environments/infrastructure, including: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)."

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How to categorize expenses in a SaaS startup

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This is where you record all of the costs that go to providing your service, such as hosting and customer support payroll. If you have sales from Professional services, you’d want to create two sets of Cost of Goods Sold?—?one Engineering. Lastly, I usually create a software category for each major expense category for consistency?—?in

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