Archive for April, 2009
Helpful QuickBooks Tips
Today I’m going to throw out a few miscellaneous small tips that may help you when you are working with QuickBooks. No particular theme, just a random collection.
If any of you have some helpful tips to add, pass them on in a comment here! I’ll add them to the article.
Goodbye to QuickBooks 2006 Support
It’s that time of year – Intuit’s annual “Sunset” of older versions of QuickBooks. If you are using QuickBooks 2006 then you won’t be able to use certain services after May 31st. I’m won’t editorialize on why this is done or if it is a good practice or not, I’ll just discuss what the impact will be on your business.
Changing QuickBooks Sales Tax Rates Mid-Year
You have your sales tax items and rates all set up, you have the sales tax rate selected for each customer, you can generate your reports, you are all set! HOWEVER – what do you do if a sales tax rate changes in the middle of the year? Today I’ll talk about some ways to handle this situation. I am going to assume you understand how to set up sales tax in QuickBooks (see my article on how to set up sales tax in QuickBooks).
Reconciling QuickBooks Inventory Balances
An important part of controlling your inventory is to make sure that your company financial statements match your inventory status. The inventory asset balance in your Balance Sheet should match the value in the Inventory Valuation Summary report. Unfortunately, these values don’t always match, and in this article I’ll talk about some reasons why this can happen, and ways to reconcile your inventory balances.
