Wondering when AccountEdge returns to Canada? The hockey puck tells all.MYOB US must hear that comment a lot, too. Because at the business software maker's Macworld Expo booth in the South Hall at Moscone Center, representatives of the company had a gift for any passersby who happened to inquire about a Canadian product--a hockey puck announcing .

AccountEdge's return to north of the 49th parallel became possible after --along with its Mac and PC development teams--from the Australian-based MYOB Ltd. in November. Acclivity had been the U.S. distributor of AccountEdge prior to the purchase.

Typically, an AccountEdge update for the U.S. product arrives in the fall--, for example. But Canadians won't have to bide their time waiting for a U.S. update so that the software can return to their home and native land.

"There will a 2009 Canadian release before the next AccountEdge product," Acclivity managing partner Tom Nash told me on the Expo show floor Wednesday.

And I've got the hockey puck to prove it.