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Establishing Preferences in QuickBooks

This blog article shows how QuickBooks preferences can be customized in ways that make it work best for you.

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The 2019 tax season is quickly approaching and with it an increase in identity theft and W-2 scams. Small business identity theft is big business for identity thieves. Just like individuals, businesses may have their identities stolen, and their sensitive information used to open credit card accounts or used to file fraudulent tax returns for bogus refunds.
Top 3 Opportunities to Eliminate Payroll Headaches

Like every business owner, running your company keeps you busy and you thrive on being busy.  Focusing on growth goals for 2017, organizing your tax reporting and tax prep meetings with your CPA currently have you going in numerous directions.  That said, it’s simply not optional to forego paying your employees or your required tax…

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Paying Bills in QuickBooks Online

In a previous column, we talked about setting up bills in QuickBooks Online. Now it’s time to pay them.

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Creating Reports in QuickBooks, Part 2

Last month, we discussed QuickBooks’ report Preferences and The Report Center. We’ll look at report customization this month.

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Better Budgeting Using QuickBooks Online Plus

Budgeting is one of the most important aspects of financial planning. Learn how to set up easy to follow budgets in QuickBooks!

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Use QuickBooks Custom Fields to Improve Insight

Learn how to use custom fields in QuickBooks to better organize your records.

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Setting Up User Access in QuickBooks

Will multiple employees be working with your QuickBooks company file? You’ll need to define their permission levels.

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Setting Up Settings in QuickBooks Online

Set yourself up for success by properly setting up your company’s QuickBook Settings. Settings lay the foundation to how your company uses QuickBooks.

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What Are Payroll Items in QuickBooks?

If you plan to process your own payroll using QuickBooks, you need to understand how payroll items work.

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What Are Important Tax Deadlines and Quarterly/Year-End Dates I Should Know? To start, each of the four quarters are broken into three-month periods - whose dates will be the following: Quarter 1 (Q1): January 1 - March 31 Quarter 2 (Q2): April 1 - June 30 Quarter 3 (Q3): July 1 - September 30 Quarter 4 (Q4): October 1 - December 31 The end dates, noted above. are the last days for each of the respective quarters. As you see below, as well, there is a list of forms you'll want to keep in mind - for the forms you'll submit throughout the process. If you want to "freeze frame," simply click on the image, and you'll be taken to the corresponding video, to take down the necessary dates to keep in mind.
The fine art of sales tax — and vice versa

  In 2015, fine art sales amounted to a whopping $63.8 billion.  While this is nearly 5 billion dollars less than the art market’s all-time high in 2014, visual art is still a big business.  Art sales pose interesting problems for sales taxation.  Some of those problems boil down to that most eternal of questions:…

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More States Dare to Mess with Nexus

$24 billion. That’s the amount of uncollected sales tax from ecommerce retail sales at last count. Those billions of dollars are a powerful motivator for U.S. states who are collectively facing $19 billion in budget shortfalls over the next 18 months. As states get more concerned (and creative) about revenue sources, they’re turning their attention…

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Hit the books! Back-to-school starts now for retailers

The sprint to the end of the school year is underway. Students are working to finish assignments and prepare for exams while keeping one eye glued to the calendar: three weeks left; then one; summer! Most kids will be happy to close the books and not think about the upcoming school year for two months….

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