With technological advancement, more businesses are considering virtual bookkeeping services. For some, the concept of a virtual bookkeeper is scary, while for others, it simply won’t work. For those that entertain this idea, they soon appreciate the benefits of using remote bookkeeping. Virtual bookkeeping permits a bookkeeper or accountant to offer services remotely....
Is Using the Same QuickBooks Data File for Long Time Causing My Performance Issues?
There’s more than one approach to how long you use the same QuickBooks company file. You can create a new file each fiscal year, or whenever you upgrade QuickBooks Desktop. Other users prefer using the same file as long as possible. Which approach works best depends on your preferences, and the way your business uses QuickBooks. While entering a lower volume of transactions into QuickBooks helps you use the same file longer, there are possible situations where you need a new QuickBooks data file.
Whether your accounting tasks are done on a single PC or you have multiple users working on different screens, it’s critical you make use of all that QuickBooks offers in terms of internal controls to tighten data security.
QuickBooks Desktop has progressively responded to evolving threats. It has been working on compatibility with multiple Antivirus solutions. It also has included Multi-Factor Authentication as a means of validating users, in accessing certain aspects of QuickBooks Desktop. To learn more about using MFA, review our article on account security. Less often discussed, though, is the existing reports and tools already in QuickBooks Desktop.
Errors and other unexpected issues in QuickBooks can cause a lot of trouble, and in some cases, they can be a huge pain to try and diagnose to find a root cause. Luckily, there’s a fantastic troubleshooting technique we can use to try to narrow down what the cause of an issue is, which may save you a lot of time on the phone with support agents, even if you can’t fix the issue yourself.
Cloud Hosting flexibility can ignite a startup – sole proprietor or otherwise – from the ground up. Sole proprietors, especially, aren’t often able to establish a business-oriented workspace. Depending on the industry, capital to start a venture can be limited.
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.
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:
It’s a fear that everyone has that works with QuickBooks. What do I do if my computer crashes? All your company’s information, financials, customer information, and product information is contained in your company file and losing that could be very detrimental to a company. Fortunately, there are safeguards you can take to prepare for a worst-case scenario.
You work hard to make sure your QuickBooks data is accurate. Make sure it’s safe, too.
Your QuickBooks company file contains some of the most sensitive information on your computer. You may have your customers’ credit card numbers and your employees’ Social Security numbers saved inside. An intruder who captured all that data could create tremendous problems for you and a lot of other people.