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QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts – How to Do More in Less Time.

One of my favorite ways to save time when I’m learning new software is to try and learn the shortcut keys for some of my more common tasks. The less time I need to spend poking around in menus and sub-menus, the more actual work I can get done. By learning some valuable shortcut keys, I give myself access to useful tools literally at my fingertips. Like most software these days, QuickBooks also includes a lot of great shortcut keys. Let’s look at some of the ones we love to use here at OUT OF THE BOX TECHNOLOGY.

What Are Opportunity Zones? Opportunity Zones can deliver significant tax savings on medium- to long-term investments in economically disadvantaged communities. This new tax incentive pertains to both the capital gains invested initially through a qualified opportunity fund, as well as capital gains earned for the investor from businesses or projects in a zone.

7 Misconceptions About Your Business Tax Returns

One of the biggest hurdles you’ll face in running your own business is staying on top of your numerous obligations to federal, state, and local tax agencies. Tax codes seem to be in a constant state of flux, making the Internal Revenue Code barely understandable to most people.

The old legal saying that “ignorance of the law is no excuse” is perhaps most often applied in tax settings and it is safe to assume that a tax auditor presenting an assessment of additional taxes, penalties, and interest will not look kindly on an “I didn’t know I was required to do that” claim. On the flip side, it is surprising how many small businesses actually overpay their taxes, neglecting to take deductions they’re legally entitled to that can help them lower their tax bill.

What is Cloud Hosting and Why Use It: the pros and the cons

Business and The Cloud

Business, today, is more connected and spread out than ever before. Many companies have employees or contractors that may work in another building, city, state, maybe even another country. More often than ever, businesses are bridging these physical gaps with the virtual connections of the cloud. While you may be working with people hundreds or thousands of miles away, your work can all take place in one virtual office space on a cloud server.

The Beginner’s Guide to Sales Tax in QuickBooks

A variety of businesses must collect sales tax as part of their business operations, remitting those funds to the appropriate government agency on a predetermined schedule. The process of correctly collecting, recording, and paying these sales tax liabilities can be somewhat daunting at first, but QuickBooks has some tools built in that can help this go more smoothly.

QuickBooks 2018 Manufacturing & Wholesale

ORDER FULFILLMENT & MOBILE INVENTORY SCANNER HOW-TO GUIDE Complimentary E-Book QuickBooks 2018 has some truly game changing new features for inventory management. This detailed guide was created specifically for the manufacturing and wholesale industries, and those who would like to learn more about the new mobile barcode scanning and inventory management features...

Why Your QuickBooks File Size is Important and How to Control It

For any business, managing your books via QuickBooks is something that is driven by a desire to simplify things. For many people, it just seems simpler to keep all your data in a single file because that way is obviously easier, right? I’d like to take a little bit of time to explain why this method of thinking can be more harmful than you realize; and, ultimately, how you can complicate things beyond your expectations.

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