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It's our goal to walk you through all the ins and outs of QuickBooks. We'll discuss products, and walk through "how-to's" on different functions within QuickBooks. We'll also address questions and comments from our readers and work through problems that may arise.

SourceLink 4.1 by Personable.com
March 19, 2008, 2:40 AM
I recently got the chance to install Standard Edition SourceLink 4.1 as a third party vendor software to QuickBooks.....Basically this is a document management program that gives you the ability to file, retrieve, and organize your source documents associated with any QuickBooks record.

Coding Petty Cash
March 11, 2008, 11:25 AM
One of the most frequent mistakes accountants see on financial statements is the miscoding of petty cash. It is a very simple concept to grasp but for bookkeepers who do not know what they're doing, they can really make a mess of this simple entry.

I finally did it! Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
March 07, 2008, 10:40 AM
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and QuickBooks Pre 2006... Vista and incompatibility issues...I finally did this myself and you can too.

1099 Form for 2007
February 27, 2008, 9:45 AM
First of all, the deadline for issuing 1099's is the end of January, so people emailing me recently have already missed the deadline.

File Size - Beginning Balance Transfer Utility from Karl Irving
February 05, 2008, 10:25 AM
My company file size is 341mb and I need to reduce it. If I do as you said, start a new company file, and export my lists. What will happen with my open invoices, item list count (Quantity per item). Do I have to go back and re-enter all those open invoices, bills, and totals ect..? Does this sound familiar? We are looking at a utility called Beginning Balance Transfer Utility from Karl Irving.

QuickBooks Q&A - QuickBooks migration
December 28, 2007, 2:00 AM
Q. I have a customer who is currently using quickbooks pro 2005. Will his working file migrate into quickbooks Premier Manufacturing ok or is there prep work to be done first. A. His file should migrate just fine...

Outsourcing Your Accounting In The New Year
December 18, 2007, 10:05 AM
The last thing you want to do as a new business owner is work first, plan later. This is NOT a plan of action. If you want your business to flourish, you must plan.

QuickBooks Q&A
December 10, 2007, 3:00 PM
I would like to hear from the readers of this blog - we have a pretty considerable audience from the stats that I'm getting. I'd like to get some questions to answer in addition to some of the tutorials I'm working on here...I've got a short list I'm going to start with here...perhaps it'll spur some questions from some of you. In addition to questions from you, I'd like to know what tutorials you'd like to see put up here...will answer or work on just about any tutorial or question you post.

QuickBooks Q&A
December 10, 2007, 1:30 PM
I would like to hear from the readers of this blog - we have a pretty considerable audience from the stats that I'm getting. I'd like to get some questions to answer in addition to some of the tutorials I'm working on here...I've got a short list I'm going to start with here...

QuickBooks pdf error
November 26, 2007, 10:55 AM
QuickBooks PDF converter error...here's the fix. Hope it helps someone here...