New Business Direction LLC5 Ways to Accelerate Your Receivables in QuickBooks
Increasing your income is good. But even if you can’t, you can still take steps to collect the money you’re already owed faster. Here are five ways. If you asked five small business owners to name the top three roadblocks they face in their quest for ongoing profitability, it’s likely that all…
Do You Know Your Small Business Vitals?
Greetings, On a doctor’s visit, the first thing the nurse does is take your vitals: your temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiration rate. These basic measurements are the first place doctors look to see if something is wrong with our health. Knowing your vital signs, and especially when they are out…
The Fine Art of Prioritization
Greetings! Running a business usually means putting in over 40 hours a week. In fact, if you’re the typical entrepreneur, you have more ideas you want to implement than you have time for! That’s when proactive, strategically executed prioritization can make all the difference. So Hard to Choose If you have lots…
How to Create a Progress Invoice From an Estimate In QuickBooks
Not using progress invoices? Maybe you should be. Greetings! The U.S. economy may be picking up, but your customers are probably still being very careful with expenditures. If your company’s finances will allow it, you can help them out on sizable jobs by using progress invoicing, also known as partial billing or…
Five Ways to Protect Your Cash
Greetings, As entrepreneurs, we work hard for our money, and the last thing we need is to have it disappear due to fraud, hackers, or identity theft. Some people have called 2013 the year of the hacker, which is worrisome. But you’re far more likely to experience risks with disgruntled or financially…
Rhonda Rosand Receives QuickBooks 2013 ProAdvisor Certification
Rhonda Rosand, CPA has successfully completed the requirements to earn her designation for the ninth consecutive year as a Certified QuickBooks® ProAdvisor. Certified QuickBooks® ProAdvisors are CPA’s, accountants and other professionals who have completed comprehensive QuickBooks® training courses and met the annual testing requirements in order to become certified as experts in QuickBooks®….
Five Places Where Spending More Pays Off
It’s generally a good idea to keep overhead costs low so that your business profits will be higher. This is especially true with items that are easily commoditized and fairly standardized, such as utilities and rent. But there are times when increasing expenses pays off nicely, and here are five areas to…
10 Tips to Perfect Check-Printing in QuickBooks
If you used small business accounting products in the early days, you know how frustrating it was to print checks correctly from your software. Pre-printed checks weren’t cheap, and you probably printed at least a few that didn’t line up right or were otherwise unusable. Figure 1: The Write Checks window in…
QuickBooks Online vs. QuickBooks Desktop
When deciding between QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop accounting solutions, you will need to consider the pros and cons of each platform, the various features available, as well as how you use the software and what works best for your particular situation. QuickBooks Desktop: Positive: It’s familiar and easy to use It’s…
How to Replace a Lost or Destroyed Payroll Check in QuickBooks
Please note that you should rarely need to void a payroll check. Remember that voiding a payroll check is not like voiding other kinds of checks; paychecks have associated tax and other liability calculations and payments that need to be taken into consideration. You are required to amend and file corrected payroll…
