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What Are You Costing The Business?
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
Have you maximized your investment in QuickBooks? There is so much this software can do to help you run your business better that goes unused. For many, it's not knowing that QuickBooks has that capability ...
Budgeting in QB
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
An under-used tool in QuickBooks is the Budget and this is a good time of year to set it up. I know many businesses don't even take the time to work on a budget. But ...
3 Tips to Getting Paid Faster
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
Cash flow is always an important element to track in your business. There are several ways you can improve cash flow. One way is to make it easy for your customers to pay you. While ...
Save Time With These 3 Workers Comp Tips
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
If you have employees then you pay into workers comp. And every year you probably go through a workers comp audit which verifies whether what you paid in premiums matches what you paid employees based ...
Simplify Inventory Tracking
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
Do you find that taking a physical inventory of your store seems daunting and time consuming? If you didn't fully appreciate just how much inventory your store actually has, counting everything at year-end (or whenever ...
1099's for QuickBooks 2012
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
Okay as promised here's the article for 1099-MISC using QuickBooks 2012. Let me give you the steps first. Select your 1099s vendors Verify vendor information, i.e. that you have the correct address and tax ID ...
What's New in Enterprise 2012
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
Today's topic is all about the new features found in Enterprise only. Last year Intuit added Advanced Inventory, which in reality was multi-location, but still a great feature for many. This year, Intuit added several ...
Batch Report for Bills Being Paid
By Monica Muir · 12 years ago
I have heard from several clients that they would like to print a list of the bills being paid before the checks are cut (or just cut). What you can currently do in QuickBooks is ...
Want Fries with Your Burger? The Fine Art of the Upsell
By Monica Muir · 13 years ago
Restaurants do it beautifully. "Did you leave any room for dessert or coffee?" At least one car rental company my client just visited did it obnoxiously. "Did you want insurance, gas, a GPS, or a ...
In The Niche of Time
By Monica Muir · 13 years ago
You’ve probably heard advice about how it helps to carve out a niche for your business. But did you know it will also save you a tremendous amount of time? Here’s why. When a small ...
Bill and Pay
By Monica Muir · 13 years ago
I'm all about streamlining the workflow when it comes to QuickBooks - it minimizes data entry errors and saves time and money. I've started using a new service for invoicing and receiving payments - Bill ...
Make Changes to Items Faster in POS
By Monica Mu · 13 years ago
QuickBooks came out with their Add/Edit Multiple List Entries in 2010, but POS has had a List Edit for Items for many years. It's a favorite feature of mine when clients are either first setting ...
Troubleshooting Bank Reconciliations
By Monica Muir · 13 years ago
It's great when you balance the checkbook or credit card account and everything works smoothly. I hope that's your experience at least most of the time. However, there are times when the initial attempt to ...
Finishing Strong
By Monica Mitchell Muir · 13 years ago
We're nearing year-end and a very busy time of year when it comes to your books. While I realize that December is a busy time of year with parties, travel and days out of the ...
Printing Tags for Multiple Units of Measure in Point of Sale
By Monica Muir · 14 years ago
I wrote previously about using Multiple Units of Measure and how it can simplify your Items list and make receiving and ordering simpler. However, printing the tags for those different units of measure is not ...
Accessing QuickBooks Remotely
By Monica Muir · 14 years ago
More and more, users want to access QuickBooks remotely, for a variety of reasons. Could be key people travel frequently or several staff members are in other locations, or an accountant or bookkeeper wants access. ...