Archive for December, 2009
QuickBooks 2010 R5 Update
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2010 R5 update to manual update, and probably to automatic update later today. This update includes the features I talked about from the short lived R4 update a few weeks ago, without the sales tax bug that was introduced. Let me summarize the “revision mania” here. Then I’ll talk about the changes, and give a recommendation.
QuickBooks 2009 R10, 2010 R4, and Sales Tax
My apologies for ANOTHER article on product updates, but things have been changing fast in the past few days and I want to summarize what is going on. The primary focus here is on sales tax in the 2009 and 2010 desktop versions of QuickBook.
QuickBooks 2010 R4 Update
Some early notes on the R4 release for QuickBooks 2010, which is now available. I have to say, I’m getting tired of updates, AND I’m getting tired of updates that come in December when work schedules are more complicated and things are getting more frenetic as we approach the end of the year.
QuickBooks 2009 R10
The QuickBooks 2009 R10 release is available via Manual Update. It will be released via Automatic Update in a few days, most likely.
QuickBooks 2009 R10 Update Coming
A quick note about an upcoming release of QuickBooks 2009 – the R10 release. This should be ready on December 15. This should fix the problem with the sales tax report as I talked about in an earlier article. Please note that I have not tested this at this time (it isn’t generally available). Update 12/15/2009- R10 has been released, see my followup article on R10 for more details.
Win a Free Copy of QuickBooks Premier!
In November and December 2010 the Practical QuickBooks blog held a Premier 2010 Giveaway where we gave away five free copies of QuickBooks Premier 2010 Accountants Edition blog readers drawn from the list of people who fill out a simple survey. The contest is closed now.
Printing a QuickBooks Inventory Adjustment Report
Sometimes you want to be able to see a listing of all of the inventory adjustments made over a period of time. This may be helpful when trying to audit your inventory usage. The steps for getting this kind of information out of QuickBooks aren’t all that obvious, so I’ll give you some tips here.
QuickBooks 2009 R9 Sales Tax Problem
According to this Intuit KB article, there is a problem with the R9 update of QuickBooks 2009 that relates to sales tax. The article says that some Sales Tax reports are not displaying correctly. This affects the Sales Tax Liability and Sales Tax Revenue reports. If you work with sales tax in QuickBooks these are critical reports.
QuickBooks 2009 R9 Update Problems
Is there a problem with the QuickBooks 2009 R9 update? The update was released to Manual Update in late November, and was released to Automatic Update just recently. Ever since the start of the Automatic Update came out, a very large number of messages about problems started popping up in the Intuit Community Forum. As of today, it looks like Intuit has temporarily removed it from Automatic Update.
Credit Holds in QuickBooks
It is an unfortunate part of doing business, but sometimes you find that you have to put a customer on credit hold. In QuickBooks it can be difficult to prevent your order entry staff from creating an invoice for a customer who you have placed on hold. Today I’ll talk a bit about ways to manage this.
