Archive for September, 2010

QuickBooks 2009 R12

| September 28, 2010 | 17 Comments

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2009 R12 release to manual update. This release affects users of Payroll and  Merchant Services primarily, along with a small number of other bug fixes.

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QuickBooks 2011: Quick Start Center

| September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments

When you create a new company file with QuickBooks 2011 there is a new QuickBooks Quick Start Center procedure that kicks in after you finish the traditional “interview” or company setup procedure that we are familiar with. This lets you easily create new bank accounts, items and vendors/customers/employees.

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QuickBooks 2011: Enterprise Custom Reporting

| September 24, 2010 | 20 Comments

Your financial data is crucial to your business. Getting timely reports from that data is imperative. QuickBooks includes many useful reports, BUT every business has some unique report that is needed that QuickBooks doesn’t include. Intuit recognizes this, and if you have QuickBooks Enterprise v 11.0, you have a new tool that can help.

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QuickBooks 2010 R9

| September 23, 2010 | 4 Comments

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2010 R9 update to manual update. This release only affects users of Payroll Direct Deposit.

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QuickBooks 2011 – QuickBooks Attached Documents (Document Management)

| September 23, 2010 | 40 Comments

Intuit introduced the QuickBooks Document Management service in the 2010 release. When I reviewed this originally, I had a number of concerns about what you could and couldn’t do. With QuickBooks 2011, Intuit is renaming this service to be QuickBooks Attached Documents and has made some significant changes. Is it enough?

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QuickBooks 2011 – Batch Invoicing

| September 22, 2010 | 58 Comments

One of the very useful features added in QuickBooks 2011 is Batch Invoicing, which allows you to create an invoice that you can send out to multiple customers in a few easy steps. Let’s take a look at this new feature.

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QuickBooks 2011: Report Enhancements

| September 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

QuickBooks 2011 introduces a number of new reports, as well as some enhancements to existing reports. This is a very quick overview of what has been added and changed, with some examples of some of the new reports.

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QuickBooks 2011 Quick Startup and Multiple Instances

| September 20, 2010

Two significant changes in QuickBooks 2011 are the Quick Startup feature (which improves the startup speed for QuickBooks) and the Multiple Instances feature (allowing two company files to be open at the same time). I’m recommending that you be cautious with these features until you understand the impact they will have on your use of […]

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QuickBooks 2011: Collection Center

| September 17, 2010 | 9 Comments

Managing your Accounts Receivable is one of your most important business functions. QuickBooks 2011 has added several improvements that will make this task easier for you, including the addition of the Collections Center. Let’s take a look at what they have added.

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QuickBooks 2011: History on Transactions

| September 16, 2010 | 12 Comments

When you are working with a customer invoice, or a vendor purchase order, it is very helpful to have summary information readily available. You want to see information about the open balance, outstanding orders, a history of recent transactions. In QuickBooks you have been able to look in the Customer Center to do that, but […]

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