Archive for April 2015

August 2012 – QuickBooks Payroll Runs: Easy, Fast, Accurate If you’ve already set up your QuickBooks employee and company payroll files, the hard part’s over. It’s not just a catchy ad slogan: It’s true. Unless you have dozens of employees or numerous exceptions each payday, you can literally process a payroll run in just a…

November 2012 – Are You Defining Items in QuickBooks Correctly? If you are currently using items congratulations. If you have never used items than you are not utilizing QuickBooks to the fullest extent. Create item records in QuickBooks carefully, and QuickBooks will return the favor by running useful, accurate reports. Obviously, you’re using QuickBooks because…

December 2012 – Say Good-Bye to 2012 and Ready QuickBooks for 2013 When you turn the calendar page and make a new start on January 1, your accounting software could use some closure on the year that’s passed. Here are some actions you can take to ring out the old and ring in the new.…

April 2014-SpringClean Your QuickBooks Company File There are a lot of clues that indicate trouble with your QuickBooks company file. Is it time for a check-up and tune-up? After this ridiculously long winter, you’ll probably hear few complaints about things like puddles in the street, summer heat and spring cleaning. Most people are eager to…

June 2014 – 8 QuickBooks Reports That You Should Be Running Regularly QuickBooks provides dozens of customizable report templates. You know when you need some of them, but which are musts? You send invoices because you sold products and/or services. Purchase orders go out when you’re running low on inventory, and there are always bills…

October 2014 Billing for Time in QuickBooks: An Overview If you sell your employees’ time and skills, you can use QuickBooks to record those hours and bill your customers for them. If your small business sells products, you know how precisely you must track your starting stock numbers, ongoing inventory levels, and your reorder points.…

September 2014-A Tour through QuickBooks’ Payroll Setup Tool Getting QuickBooks ready to process payroll can be a complex, time-consuming process.  QuickBooks handles the real grunt work once you’ve done the initial setup, but the time you spend preparing to print your first paycheck can be challenging. Fortunately, QuickBooks’ payroll setup tool can guide you through the process. Once…

November 2014 Customize QuickBooks’ Reports, Make Better Business Decisions QuickBooks simplifies and speeds up your daily accounting work, but you’re missing out on valuable insight if you don’t tailor your report data. Do you remember why you started using QuickBooks? You may have simply wanted to produce sales forms and record payments electronically. Gradually, you…

December 2014 Using Statements in QuickBooks: The Basics Most small businesses use invoices for billing customers. But there are times when you may want to send statements instead of – or in addition to – invoices. Sending invoices to your customers to bill for products or services is probably one of the more enjoyable parts…