Posts Tagged ‘QuickBooks ProAdvisor’
Tips for a Faster Refund
As the tax filing season approaches, there are steps you can take now to speed up the filing process. The faster your return is filed, the faster you get your refund. Even if you end up owing money to the IRS, knowing the amount due sooner gives you more time to come up with the…
Read More7 Best Practices for QuickBooks Online
Even if you’ve been using QuickBooks Online for a long time, it’s good to step back and evaluate your actions. “Best practices” aren’t enforceable rules. They’re simply guidelines businesses commonly follow in one area or another. If you’re in retail, for example, one best practice might be to always ask customers checking out if they…
Read MoreRecording Simple Expenses in QuickBooks Online
How does most of the money you owe individuals and companies get disbursed? The simple expenses. Do you print checks, or write them by hand? Use credit cards? Pay online through your bank’s website? Keeping track of your outgoing funds can be challenging, since there are so many ways to complete those transactions. But…
Read MoreGetting to Know QuickBooks Online Reports
They’re one of the rewards you get for your conscientious accounting work: reports. Are you using them to make better business decisions? What do you see when you log on to QuickBooks Online? Your most important business numbers represented by real-time charts. Profit and loss. Income and expenses. Sales. And all of your account…
Read MoreUse Recurring Transactions in Quickbooks Online
Save time and ensure that recurring transactions are processed as scheduled. You know how much time QuickBooks Online already saves you. Customer, vendor, and item records need never be entered again once they’re created for the first time. Pre-built forms use your record data to complete transactions quickly and accurately. Customizable report templates provide real-time overviews…
Read MoreTime-Tracking: QuickBooks Online Plus, Part 1
You can’t see time. Nor can you look at hours and minutes to see how many you have in inventory. But if you’re a service-based business, your income is derived from this invisible asset. Billable time needs to be entered and invoiced with absolute precision. QuickBooks Online Plus has this covered. By using its time-tracking…
Read MoreConfiguring Your QuickBooks Online Settings
You’ll be visiting QuickBooks Online’s Settings screen regularly, so it’s good to know what’s there. You can get into a rental car and just start driving to your destination. But you soon realize that you need to know where the temperature controls and the radio tuner are. If it starts raining, you must know where…
Read MoreUsing QBO’s Accounts Receivable Reports
With the holidays and year-end over, you can turn your attention to catching up with your customers. It would be nice if we could neatly wrap up every accounting month or quarter or year neatly, with all of our transactions completed. All current bills and invoices would be paid, physical inventory counts would match the…
Read MoreIntroducing the New QuickBooks Online for PC App
Like QuickBooks Online but miss some of the desktop version’s features? You can have both now. QuickBooks Online has grown tremendously since its introduction more than a decade ago. It’s not quite as mature as the top-of-the-line desktop versions, but it’s not far behind anymore. No matter which version of QuickBooks you first used, there…
Read MoreManaging Users in QuickBooks Online
A multi-user accounting application needs good tools for assigning access permissions. QuickBooks Online has it covered. You trust your employees, or you wouldn’t have hired them. But you also have a grave responsibility to your customers and vendors: to keep their data safe, and to ensure that records and transactions remain accurate and unchanged throughout…
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