Grow your company with real time Executive Dashboards!
What is it that busy business owners want, to help them manage and grow their business in this economy or any other economy? They want up-to-the minute information on their businesses!Â
Whether it is tracking period or year to date sales, monitoring the performace of salespeople against goals set or improving [...]
How to Book Returned and/or Postdated Checks in QuickBooks and MAS 90/200
September 14th, 2009Regardless of which accounting software you are using you will want to follow some basic bookkeeping principles when dealing with these 2 events!
Returned checks. When the bank notifies you that it is returning a customer’s check for NSF (not sufficient funds), debit the customer’s account immediately—even if you plan to redeposit the check the same [...]
Alert for your employees!
September 11th, 2009Some may face underpayment of FIT
Because of the new withholding tables under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, some employees might want to adjust their 2009 FITW by submitting a new W-4 now. The Act reduced FITW to reflect the Make Work Pay tax credit. But for some employees, that adjustment may result in [...]
Activating the Enter key in QuickBooks!
September 11th, 2009Are you one of the millions of people that press the ENTER key to proceed to the next field? Getting frustrated with the fact that every time you hit the Enter key in QuickBooks, the result you get is not what you expected? For example, you are entering items in an invoice and need to [...]
Stimulus Opportunities for Small Business
September 8th, 2009Ever wonder: How can I access stimulus dollars? or How can my small business work with the state and federal government to participate in “shovel ready” projects? You are invited to a “Stimulus Opportunities for Small Business” event that will help you get answers to these questions and assist you in finding out how stimulus [...]
2010 HSA inflation adjustments
September 8th, 2009The calendar 2009 limits on deductions for HSA contributions under a high-deductible health plan are as follows:
• Individual with self-only coverage $3,050.00
• Individual with family coverage $6,150.00
• Age 55, $1,000.00
• Annual deductible – at least $1,200 for self only; $2,400 for family
• Maximum out-of-pocket (deductibles, co-payments, other amounts, not premiums) $5,950 for self only; $11,900 [...]
Where is the Back Button in QuickBooks?
August 3rd, 2009When you surf the web, it’s easy to go back to the previous page you were viewing – simply click the “back” button to get there.
You may have been searching high and low for the same functionality within QuickBooks – unfortunately, a “back” button doesn’t exist in QuickBooks.
No worries though – QuickBooks has an easy [...]
Tax help for going green!
August 3rd, 2009Here’s how a company can use the tax code to help the environment:
1.     Companies purchasing hybrids may qualify for a credit of $250 – $3,400, depending on fuel efficiency.
Caution: the credit disappears after the sale of 60,000 qualifying vehicles (which may not have occurred yet in 2009, given the poor economy).
2.     A company’s commercial building [...]
QuickBooks Running Slow?
August 3rd, 2009Part 2
Another method to improve the performance of your QuickBooks (in addition to that mentioned in part 1) is to increase the amount of memory (also referred to as “RAM” in geek-speak) your computer has installed.
Many computers I have seen during my QuickBooks consulting engagements simply have not been configured for optimum efficiency nor built [...]
