QuickBooks 2012 – Basic File Maintenance Before & After You Upgrade
Your QuickBooks file would benefit from some basic file maintenance before and after you upgrade to QuickBooks 2012. Best practices before and after you upgrade.
View ArticleQuickBooks Tip – File Size & DB File Fragments What Do They Mean?
The size of your QuickBooks file and the number of DB File Fragments determines the health of your QuickBooks company data file. YouTube video on how to create & restore a portable company file.
View ArticleQuickBooks 2012 – New Batch Timesheet Creation
QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014 will include batch timesheet creation allowing you to select multiple employee or vendor names, BUT there is a catch. Learn about the pitfalls.
View ArticleQuickBooks 2012 – Best Practices & Tips for Installing an Upgrade
Installing a QuickBooks 2012 upgrade on a computer that already has an existing version in place. Windows Vista & 7 Standard User account. 3rd party applications.
View ArticleQuickBooks 2012 – Turning Off Annoying Pop-Up Messages & Ads
How to turn off most annoying pop-up messages and ads in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; including the new Powered by Intuit logo that is printing on employee pay stubs.
View ArticleTroubleshooting an 80040408 – Could Not Start QuickBooks Error
Quite often an 80040408 error when using QuickBooks and a 3rd party integrated application is the result of installing/using the two programs under the Windows administrator account on a Windows Vista...
View ArticleQuickBooks Payroll Important System Maintenance Announcement
An important QuickBooks Payroll System Maintenance Announcement - a system-wide upgrade will start at 6 p.m. on Thursday 5/24/2012 and continue through 5 a.m. on Tuesday 5/29/2012 - Direct Deposit will...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2013 Announced
Intuit has just announced the release of QuickBooks 2013 (today – 9/10/2012) Are you curious as to what the new version looks like? Here's a sneak peak!
View ArticleQuickBooks 2013 – Where Have the Colors Gone?
QuickBooks 2013 has an entirely new look and I have to admit there are many things about the product redesign that I really like, however, the biggest issue that I have with the redesign is the fact...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2013 Upgrade Do’s, Don’ts & Frequent Questions
Should I/Do I NEED to upgrade to QuickBooks 2013? When should I purchase QuickBooks 2013? Will the 3rd party add-ons that I use be compatible with QuickBooks 2013? Will QuickBooks 2013 run on my...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2013 Revamped Employee Record
Big changes to the employee record, including convenient left navigation and the ability to actually see more items in the payroll info section - which means less mouse clicks and scrolling for you!...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2013 – Group Item Limit Increase
I’m a big fan of QuickBooks Group Items, I think that they are a HUGE productivity booster – but I’ve always had one gripe – they could only hold 20 items in previous versions of QuickBooks – which...
View ArticleQuickBooks Automatic Updates & Critical Fixes-What’s Your Policy?
A QuickBooks automatic update for QuickBooks Pro 2013, Premier 2013 (all versions or flavors - Contractor, Manufacturing, Professional Services, etc), and Enterprise 13.0 (all versions or flavors),...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2014 Announced-Biggest Improvement is COLOR!
QuickBooks 2014 was announced yesterday by Intuit to the ProAdvisor Community - which means after months of having to keep my mouth shut (because I've been under a non-disclosure agreement while beta...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2014 – Changes/Improvements to the Payroll Center
Color isn't everything that's new and better in QuickBooks 2014. The Payroll Center got a long overdue overhaul as well. It's new "tabbed" design splits out payroll tasks, such as Pay Employees, Pay...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2014 is available, when should I upgrade – Q & A
QuickBooks 2014 can be purchased beginning today (from what I've heard) directly from Inuit websites or through Authorized Intuit Affiliate links – however, it won’t be in stores until the middle of...
View ArticleQuickBooks Timely Payroll Alerts, Updates & Issues for 2013 Payroll Tax Returns
So here we all are scrambling to get all of our payroll tax returns completed for year-ending 12/31/2013 (myself included) and I just receive this information via my ProAdvisor membership regarding...
View ArticleQuickBooks Tip: How to find “Notes” after an Upgrade
If you are anything like me, you've kept notes about Customers, Vendors, and Employees in QuickBooks for years - sometimes these notes were just little things like the name and extension of the really...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2015 Announced – Important System Requirements
For anyone out there reading this post, if you are still running a Windows XP machine - or have clients running XP - DO NOT UPGRADE to QuickBooks 2015 until you've purchased a new computer! And in my...
View ArticleQuickBooks 2015- The Good, Bad and Ugly, Part 1
This year I've decided to do a three part series called The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY and just highlight things in bullet points with a brief description. I may raise a few eyebrows over some to the...
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