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

Cloud hosted QuickBooks is not the same as QuickBooks Online (QBO). QBO is a completely browser-based solution. Cloud hosted QuickBooks is the exact same QuickBooks Desktop application you may use locally now.

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Cloud Hosting for Small Business – How to Benefit

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.

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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…

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How to Track Time in QuickBooks Desktop II

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…

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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…

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Understanding Online Sales Tax and Supreme Court Ruling

Complete the form above to receive a link to watch this Technology Tuesday presentation on-demand. The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of South Dakota, granting the state authority to impose sales tax obligations on out-of-state transactions. What does that mean for remote sellers and how will it impact their business? Hers a look at…

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How to track time in QuickBooks Desktop

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.

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What are Account Security and MFA Best Practices?

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.

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How to Improve QuickBooks Performance

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:

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Because taxpayers are legally responsible for what is on their returns (even if it was prepared by someone else), those who buy into such schemes can end up being penalized for filing false claims or receiving fraudulent refunds.
QuickBooks Custom Reporting Part 2: Putting it all together

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. 

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QuickBooks Custom Reporting Part 1: The Basics

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

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South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. |  New Sales Tax Rules for Online and Off-Line Sellers

Supreme Court rules that South Dakota can tax sales by out-of-state sellers. For many Oregonians, ‘Sales Tax’ is a dirty word that they’ve had the good fortune to be able to avoid. Small businesses, both local and out of state, factor this exception when they are looking at their projected revenue or viability and, for some,…

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