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Without the need to expend time and finances to research and obtain a traditional desktop PC or laptop, entrepreneurs can access professional computing environments from any internet-enabled smartphone or tablet.

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…

Last month, we learned about getting QuickBooks ready for time-tracking by activating it in Preferences and creating a record for a service item. This month, the focus is on using that record in the two different ways you will be using it in QuickBooks: to pay employees for their hourly work and to bill customers…

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…

When you sell a product to a customer, you know it. It goes away, and your inventory count in QuickBooks is reduced by one. This tracking helps you know what is selling and what is not, and it signals when a reorder is due.

One of the many challenges businesses need to stay ahead of is cyber security. Many service providers and their products have added stricter requirements during the account creation and product acquisition stages. However, there are still service providers not having adapted their requirements to growing trends in Internet Security.

If you are seeing slowness when using QuickBooks, there can be a variety of causes and solutions. Evaluating performance issues and what to do about them involves determining your best balance point between following one or more possible paths:

Welcome to part two of our post on custom reports training. If you haven’t read part one first, I’d recommend checking it out for an overview or refresher on the screens we’ll be going over in this post. 

If you’ve used QuickBooks for a while already, you may have found yourself customizing some of the built-in reports.

Sometimes, you find that your business needs to keep track of more information about items, customers, vendors, or employees than QuickBooks has available fields for. Not everyone needs the same information, so it makes sense to be able to track what’s important to you. For situations like this, there’s a solution in the form of…

 Every opportunity you have to interact with your customers and vendors is critical. How you present yourself reveals a lot about you. Are you efficient and friendly over the phone, in person, or in email? Do you handle order and payment issues quickly and carefully?

Payroll introduces another layer of complexity within small business accounting. Beyond ensuring your employees are paid on time, you’re also responsible for managing employee benefits and payroll taxes.