Recent Articles
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.
Closing a Partially Shipped Purchase Order in QuickBooks
When you create a purchase order in QuickBooks the quantity that you have on outstanding PO’s will show in several reports. If you receive a partial shipment on that PO and the remaining balance will not be shipped, you need to close the purchase order to remove the outstanding items on these reports. There have been a number of questions about this lately, so here is an article.
QuickBooks 2009 R9 Update
Intuit has published Release 9 of QuickBooks 2009 (R9). You can get it through the manual update as well as the automatic update process. I’ve been running it without any problems myself.
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 a Non Profit organization for example, pick the Nonprofit edition. But what if I am a manufacturer who also sells in a retail environment? What to choose? Sometimes the answer may be surprising – you might want to try the Accountant Edition.
QuickBooks 2010 R2 Update
Intuit has released the R2 update for QuickBooks Pro/Premier 2010 and Enterprise 10. If you are set up for automatic updates you should be getting it, or go to the manual update page. If you aren’t sure how to determine what release you are using, see my posting on automatic updates. I’ll outline the changes here.
QuickBooks 2010 and Integrated Application Errors (80040408 etc.)
QuickBooks Compatible add-on programs (also referred to as “third party” programs) generally use the SDK (software development kit) provided by Intuit. This allows them to exchange information with QuickBooks in a controlled and secure fashion. With the release of QuickBooks 2010 we have seen a number of complaints from people using a variety of add-on programs, generally saying that their add-on programs stopped working.
QuickBooks and Windows 7
Back in July I wrote an article about QuickBooks on Windows 7 RC and Internet Explorer 8, where I talked about QuickBooks 2009 on the pre-release version of Windows 7. Since that time we have had the public release of Windows 7, and the release of QuickBooks 2010, so it is time that I revisited this subject.
