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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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It helps you automate application security testing so that you can reduce your reliance on external consultants and security teams. AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution. Want a simpler explanation?

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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 Lastly, I usually create a software category for each major expense category for consistency?—?in Engineering.

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