Category: General Tips
Should I Select QuickBooks Accountant Edition?
When you purchase a copy of QuickBooks Premier or Enterprise you are often faced with a confusing question – which edition should I choose? Depending on where you purchase it, you may see the Contractor, Nonprofit, Retail, Manufacturing & Wholesale, Professional Services or Accountant edition. For some users it is simple – if you are [...]
Warning – Phishing eMail about Intuit Products
A quick note – there are a lot of phishing emails coming out lately that look like they come from Intuit. Some talk about a security tool that QuickBooks online users must download, some talk about a survey to fill out after your purchase of an Intuit product. Please be careful, these may be phishing [...]
QuickBooks Support and Training Resources
There are a lot of ways to get help with QuickBooks, and in today’s article I’m going to list a few resources for support and training that I’ve found to be helpful. Many of these are free, but some do have a cost involved. Updated 11/10/2009 This isn’t a comprehensive list of ALL resources that are available [...]
Using Subtotals in QuickBooks Orders
The subtotal item in QuickBooks can be useful if you want to provide a summary of the price of items you are selling in an order form. Unfortunately, if you try to get tricky with multiple levels of subtotals you may find that this feature doesn’t work the way you might expect. Today we’ll talk [...]
QuickBooks Multiuser Network Diagnostic Tool
Diagnosing network problems with QuickBooks can be a bit frustrating sometimes. In most cases I’ve not had much trouble, but sometimes you start working with a particular network that just doesn’t want to work the way that you want. Intuit has created the QuickBooks Network Diagnostic Tool to help.
QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts
If you are entering a lot of information into an accounting program like QuickBooks, you want to be able to keep your hands on the keyboard. Moving back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse just slows you down. That is why we have “keyboard shortcuts” in good Windows based programs – to minimize [...]
Graphics for your Company
I’m branching out a bit today to talk about a general business topic, not strictly related to QuickBooks. Let’s talk a bit about business graphics – specifically a company or product logo. These days almost every business needs a graphic logo for their company and/or products. Contracting with a graphic designer can be expensive, time [...]
Correcting the QuickBooks Spelling Dictionary
If you use the spelling feature in QuickBooks you will find that it is easy to add a misspelled word to the dictionary. That is, QuickBooks says that a word is not in the dictionary and you accidentally click Add instead of Replace. The misspelled word is in your dictionary, and QuickBooks doesn’t provide you [...]
Using Online Backups to save your QuickBooks Data
In my Backing Up QuickBooks Data article I talked about the importance of a good backup plan for your business. Today I’ll talk a bit about one portion of a good plan, using online backups. When I’m hired to evaluate a business and their QuickBooks procedures one of the first things I look at is [...]
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.
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