New Business Direction LLCMake QuickBooks Yours in 2014: Customize
QuickBooks can be used as is, or you can customize many elements to improve your workflow, your form output and your business insight. While many of the things you purchase and use in your daily work and professional lives don’t come with options, many do. Think about the last time you bought…
Optimize Your Revenue Mix for More Profits in 2014
Many small business owners focus on generating more revenue every year, and that’s a great objective. But not all revenue is created equally. If you sell more than one product or service in your business, then you can benefit from looking at your revenue mix. Although it’s fun to watch our revenues grow,…
Receiving Payments from Customers in QuickBooks
Depending on the situation, there’s more than one way to record a customer payment in QuickBooks. Here are your options. There are undoubtedly some QuickBooks tasks that are more enjoyable than others. It’s no fun paying bills, for example, and making collection calls on unpaid invoices can be downright unpleasant. But you…
Five Tips to Get Ready for a Pain-Free Tax Time
With the holiday season just around the corner, it’s a perfect time to get your financial records in order. Tax moves you make now can mean finding more “green” to spend on family gifts and festivities. Here are five quick tips for you to feel more prepared about your financial status as…
Announcement: Wayne Kukuruza Joins New Business Directions
Greetings! We are pleased to announce that Wayne Kukuruza has joined the team at New Business Directions. Wayne attended Salem State College and graduated with a BA in Business Administration from Campbell University, Camp Lejuene, NC. He received his Certificate of Engineering in Microsoft and Novell from Clark University in Braintree, MA….
Announcement: Kristen Earns QuickBooks User Certification
Greetings! Kristen has earned her designation as a QuickBooks Certified User on November 4, 2013. Kristen has attended extensive training courses on QuickBooks and has been with New Business Directions since December of 2011. In addition to being a Level One Bookkeeper for New Business Directions, Kristen is also our in-house Marketing…
QuickBooks 2014 Simplifies, Accelerates Common Tasks
New version of desktop QuickBooks accomplishes goal of speeding up, refining your workflow. If Intuit named its desktop versions of QuickBooks by the version number rather than the year, we’d be in version 20-something by now. QuickBooks, still the preferred software for small businesses, keeps getting smarter in its annual upgrades. Rather…
Do You Need a More Robust Version of QuickBooks?
Greetings! Maybe you just need to study your current version thoroughly. But it might be time to move up. If QuickBooks were just one product, its appeal would be more limited than it is. Because there’s an entire family of Windows desktop software applications (as well as five online versions and a…
25 Accounting Terms You Should Know
Greetings! It’s back-to-school time. Why not take a page from the kids’ books and do some learning of your own? QuickBooks is easy to use, intuitive and flexible. But it is not an accounting manual or class or tutorial. If your business is exceptionally uncomplicated, you might get by without knowing a…
QuickBooks Custom Fields: An Overview
Part of QuickBooks’ popularity comes from its flexibility. Here’s a look at how custom fields contribute to that element. The beauty of QuickBooks is that it can be used for so many different kinds of businesses. Its smart design lets realtors and retail shops, plumbers and plastic surgeons use it to track…
