Archive for January, 2009

QuickBooks Tax Accounting for a Small Business

| January 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

I use QuickBooks to manage my small business, and it is tax time. There are a few reports that can help preparing information for my tax return that I’d like to point out. I was surprised to find in a survey of my clients that many didn’t know about these features.

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Understanding QuickBooks Inventory Cost

| January 13, 2009 | 92 Comments

If you are using QuickBooks to manage your inventory, you need to understand how QuickBooks deals with the cost of inventory items. I’ve been answering a lot of questions about this in the Intuit Community Forums lately, so here is a quick rundown of how things work.

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QuickBooks 2009 Release R5 and QuickBooks Messenger

| January 5, 2009 | 15 Comments

In an earlier article I talked about the new QuickBooks Messenger feature, which some people love and others hate. I provided a method that you could use to turn it off, which involved renaming or erasing a file. One problem with this approach – when you update to a new release, the Messenger feature would […]

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