Getting paid by your customers in a timely fashion is one of the biggest challenges of being a business owner. QuickBooks can help in several ways. You’re meeting your sales goals. Keeping inventory balanced. Making sure that every billable hour gets invoiced. Taking advantage of vendor discounts.
Read more →The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to evolve as the IRS begins to address challenges faced during the past tax season. A recent IRS announcement warns taxpayers who use the Premium Tax Credit to file their 2014 tax return immediately. Failing to do so may cause the
Read more →A multi-user accounting application needs good tools for assigning access permissions. QuickBooks Online has it covered. You trust your employees, or you wouldn’t have hired them. But you also have a grave responsibility to your customers and vendors: to keep their data safe, and to ensure
Read more →Even if you guard that critical 9-digit number carefully, you can still have a fraudulent tax return filed using it. Your first thoughts when you become the victim of a tax identity thief might go along the lines of: Did I click on a link in an
Read more →For millions of working parents the summer comes with the added challenge of finding care for their summer vacation bound kids. School hours need to be replaced with child-care hours.With summer underway, you probably now have the child-care summer gap covered. There is a good chance this
Read more →Reports are the payoff for all of your hard work entering records and transactions. They can help you make better business decisions. Now that you’ve been using QuickBooks Online for your company’s accounting, it’s probably unimaginable to think about going back to manual bookkeeping. Those file folders
Read more →It’s much more gratifying to work with incoming payments, but the money has to go out sometimes, too. Here’s an overview. Xero provides numerous ways to pay for goods and services that your company needs in Xero. How you do so depends on the type of expenditure
Read more →It’s probably one of your favorite QuickBooks activities. Be sure you understand the mechanics of recording payments. There are numerous ways to prioritize your workday. Do the most difficult things first. Get important phone calls out of the way. Respond to customer emails. But it’s likely that
Read more →Being selected for an audit doesn’t mean that you’re suspected of incorrectly reporting your taxes. There’s no getting around it: The prospect of being audited by the IRS is unnerving. But the agency chooses to audit individuals and businesses for a number of reasons, including: Mismatched
Read more →If you have multiple users in Xero, you’ll probably want to restrict them to specific areas of the site. If you were still using a paper accounting system, it’s unlikely that you would let everyone dig through file folders, peer at your checkbook register, or look at
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