Finding Ways to get the Reports You Want Out of QuickBooks
July 02, 2009, 12:20 PM
There are times when the report you want to get from QuickBooks just doesn't exist within QuickBooks. That doesn't necessarily mean you can't create the report you need. The more advanced QuickBooks Enterprise versions provide ODBC connectivity with Crystal Reports ...

Accounting Entries for Credit Card Processing
June 29, 2009, 6:20 PM
When a customer pays for service with a credit card on the last day of May, for example, but the payment does not clear the bank until June 3, Do I record the deposit in May or June?

Billing a Client for Multiple Projects on One Invoice
June 26, 2009, 4:40 PM
Sometimes clients can be very particular about how they want you to invoice them for work. In this case, a consulting client for several ongoing projects wanted each invoice to include a summary by project for all hours worked that ...

Billing Your Time in QuickBooks
June 25, 2009, 8:55 AM
There are four ways QuickBooks offers you to bill your time; a summary of activities by service item, a detail with item descriptions by service date, a detail with by activity notes by service date, and a detail with both ...

How to return an Item Paid for with a Check
June 22, 2009, 8:40 AM
Whether your are netting a payable against a receivable or returning a cash purchase from Lowe’s, a clearing account will solve your problem. Unlike with credit card charges and vendor bills, QuickBooks doesn’t offer a means to record the return ...

Intuit Online Payroll Is An Incredible Value for Small Businesses. Does It Make Sense for You?
June 17, 2009, 1:40 PM
Its easy to use, offers automatic tracking and online filing of all federal and state tax forms, online tracking and payment payroll taxes, direct deposit of employee paychecks, and exports payroll entries to QuickBooks. At $9.95 a month it’s "dirt ...

Entering Vendor Partial Billings Against a Purchase Order
June 13, 2009, 12:55 PM
What to do when a vendor sends you a partial bill aganst a purchase order. When our concept of order meets the real world we have to get inventive. Here's a way...

Tracking and Billing Employee Time: Billing Rate Levels
June 11, 2009, 7:00 AM
QuickBooks allows you to set a default billable rate for an employee or even to bill the same service item at different rates for different employee groups.

Tracking and Billing Employee Time
June 10, 2009, 9:15 AM
The ability to assign employee time to projects can be useful in tracking project costs, both billable and non-billable, employee utilization, and hourly pay. QuickBooks timekeeping function allows you to update all of this information from a single timekeeping function.

Tracking and Billing Independent Contactor Time
June 09, 2009, 5:50 PM
QuickBooks allows you to bill for both employee and independent contractor time. Time can automatically linked to customer invoicing, to payroll for hourly work and to payables to pay independent contractors. This time we look at billing and pay for ...