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What is Different between QuickBooks for Windows and QuickBooks Mac?

Intuit has a version of QuickBooks for the Mac – and several versions for Windows. While the products are very similar, there are big differences that you should know about. Here is a quick list of some of the significant changes – not that this is not a complete list. Note that in Windows we [...]

How To Print Modified QuickBooks Invoices Without Saving Changes

This is one of those situations where a software company can’t win. People complain about the way it works, so you change the program to fix the problem. Then, other people complain about the fix, and wish it worked the old way. Fortunately, Intuit made this an option so you can have it either way. [...]

QuickBooks Blogs That Can Help You–06.11 Edition

It has been a great month for blog articles about QuickBooks. Here are some that you will find useful if you are using QuickBooks in your business: How to record a vendor refund in QuickBooks (QuickBooks Help): Lynda Artesani has quick little tips on how to use QuickBooks in particular situations, such as when you [...]

Intuit Data Protect Update 1.25.21.4004

Intuit has released an update to Intuit Data Protect that fixes a problem that some people have run into. It also provides some additional internal diagnostics. These updates SHOULD be pushed to your system if you have enabled Automatic Updates, but you should check to be sure that you have it.  If the location of [...]

QuickBooks Sales Tax Reports Don’t Match Total Income

I don’t have a lot of taxable sales in my business, so I only have to report my sales tax to California once a year. Throughout the year I just merrily go along entering my sales into QuickBooks, and in January I run my Sales Tax Liability report. I use that report to fill in the values [...]

QuickBooks 2010 R11

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2010 R11 update to manual update. I’ll list the changes that I’m aware of. There often are other changes that aren’t officially announced. Please note that I haven’t tested every one of these updates myself at this time. At the time I’m writing this Intuit hasn’t posted the official list [...]

QuickBooks Reporting is Simple with QQube

Getting useful reports from QuickBooks, in the format that you want, can be a real chore. Your options are to use the built-in QuickBooks reports, struggle with a complicated data access tool, or use a complicated add-on product that has limitations. This is all about to change with the release of a product that I’m [...]

QuickBooks 2011 Release R5

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2011 R5 update to manual update. This is a quick fix to a couple of the problems that were introduced with the recent R4 update. There are only three updates that have been announced at the time that I’m writing this. This article was updated on 1/7/2011 Verify Error I’ve [...]

QuickBooks Plus Subscriptions

With all of the hoopla surrounding the release of QuickBooks 2011 many people have overlooked one of the significant marketing changes – QuickBooks Desktop subscriptions through the QuickBooks Plus program. Let’s take a look at what this is, and how it will affect both users and ProAdvisors. Until this year if you wanted to use [...]

QuickBooks Holiday Grinch

It’s Christmas week here, when business SHOULD slow down, but it never seems to.  Rather than talk about new features (or bugs) in QuickBooks, or how to accomplish a particular task, I’m going to get on my soapbox and throw out some thoughts on things that have been bugging me. And, at the end, ask [...]