Archive for January, 2009

QuickBooks Tax Accounting for a Small Business

I use QuickBooks to manage my small business, and it is tax time. There are a few reports that can help preparing information for my tax return that I’d like to point out. I was surprised to find in a survey of my clients that many didn’t know about these features.

Understanding QuickBooks Inventory Cost

If you are using QuickBooks to manage your inventory, you need to understand how QuickBooks deals with the cost of inventory items. I’ve been answering a lot of questions about this in the Intuit Community Forums lately, so here is a quick rundown of how things work.

QuickBooks 2009 Release R5 and QuickBooks Messenger

In an earlier article I talked about the new QuickBooks Messenger feature, which some people love and others hate. I provided a method that you could use to turn it off, which involved renaming or erasing a file. One problem with this approach – when you update to a new release, the Messenger feature would be restored.

Good news! In the R4 and R5 updates of QuickBooks 2009 they have added a function that lets you easily turn this feature off. When you are logged in as the Administrator in multi-user mode you will find Disable QuickBooks Messenger as an option in the File/Utilities menu.