Assigning Payroll to Project Costs
November 18, 2009, 6:35 PM
QuickBooks allows you to use timekeeping to record both salary and hourly payoll cost to customer:jobs. Hourly pay is straight forward but salaried employees will need to account for a 40 hour work week on each weekly timesheet for a ...

QuickBooks 2010 Enhancements – Duplicating Your Custom Form Design to Other Forms
November 16, 2009, 5:25 PM
QuickBooks now has a new timesaving feature for users who want customized forms with a common look and feel. Now, one you have created the design for you invoice can automatically duplicate it for a selection of or all credit ...

QuickBooks 2010 Enhancements - More Options for Company Snapshot
November 13, 2009, 10:00 AM
With QuickBooks 2010 you now can select from up to 12 financial status displays to view. The company snapshot is a great tool that you can set as your opening page with reminders, bills to pay, checks to print, and ...

QuickBooks 2010 Enhancements - Document Management
November 11, 2009, 7:40 PM
With QuickBooks 2010 you can now attach document images to customers, vendors, employees. You can also attach document images to transactions. Documents are easy to find using a search feature, they are backed up online, simple to share with others, ...

QuickBooks 2010 Enhancements – Add/Edit Multiple List Entries
November 09, 2009, 5:00 PM
QuickBooks now offers a spreadsheet view to enter or edit customers, vendors, items, or account information. You can duplicate and modify existing items, such as customer job. You can even paste list information from EXCEL.

QuickBooks Pro and Premier Security
November 06, 2009, 4:00 PM
While security is not at robust as for the QuickBooks Enterprise version, it does offer the ability to deter fraud and make it more difficult for unknowledgeable users to cause problems.

Don't Let People Waste Your Time Doing Their Bookkeeping
November 04, 2009, 1:10 PM
If your supplier wants to know which invoices were paid by each check, you can send them the ?Check Detail? report, which is available from the QuickBooks menu options ?Reports/Banking/Check Detail?

Getting Better Control of Your Payroll Liabilities - Part 2
November 02, 2009, 7:00 AM
This is a continuation of my last post, "Getting Better Control of Your Payroll Liabilities". This post describes how I reconciled discrepancies between the general ledger and the QuickBooks state liabilities tax reporting using that report and the "paid through" ...

Getting Better Control of Your Payroll Liabilities
October 30, 2009, 4:10 PM
It’s not uncommon for QuickBooks users to use a single payrol liability account but it can be difficult to reconcile this account with payroll reports when the general ledger and the payroll reports don’t agree. Here’s a way to quickly ...

The Easy Way to Fix Payroll Items Pointing to the Wrong Expense Account
October 28, 2009, 6:45 PM
In reviewing the way payroll is set up in QuickBooks I often find an error than can be easily corrected, a payroll item such as Federal Unemployment is set up to record FUTA expense in the wrong general ledger account.