05Jul 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday – Tips from Around the Web – 7/5/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday includes our favorite tips and news stories from around the web.  This week there are some important articles for you to read and information to be aware of. Tax News: accountingTODAY for the WebCPA - Temporary FUTA Surtax Expires After 35 Years   QuickBooks News & Tips QuickBooks and Your Business - How-NOT-to Guide for Using QuickBooks Bloomberg - Interview with Brad Smith, Intuit Inc. (video) Muir & Associates - 5 Keys to Job Costing in QuickBooks so You Can Increase Your Profitability (video - Windows Media Player format) QuickBooks & Beyond - QuickBooks 2011 R7 Released   Construction Industry News: Mike Purdy's Public Contracting Blog - Ohio Legislature Reaches Compromise on Multiple Prime Contracts and Prevailing Wage   Business, Customers, Website Design & Networking: American Express…
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28Jun 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday–Tips from Around the Web 6/28/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday includes our favorite tips and news stories from around the web.  This week there are some important articles for you to read and information to be aware of. Tax News: HUFFPOST LOS ANGELES – Taxing Internet Sales – States Seek to Collect Tax Lawyer’s Blog – Tax on Computer Downloads AccountingWeb – 1099 Changes.  Now you see them, now you don’t, now you..     QuickBooks News & Tips: Intuit ProLine News Central – Complete Payroll to be Discontinued on 12/31/2011 QuickBooks and Your Business – What Damages QuickBooks Data? Rebecca Tervo – Mid Year QuickBooks Review QuickBooks in the Cloud – Tips for Selecting a QuickBooks Hosting Provider for Your Business   Business, Customers & Networking: The New York Times Small Business – How Do You…
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21Jun 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday – Tips from Around the Web – 6/21/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday Tips from around the web includes our favorite QuickBooks and business productivity tips from other bloggers around the web.  We hope you’ll find these articles as interesting as we did. Veritas Consulting Safety Services - Free Health Safety Checklists, Templates and Forms for your Business BNET - 7 Things Employees Are Thinking - But Won't Say Construction Law Developments blog - Are You REALLY An Additional Insured on All Subs' Coverage? QuickBooks in the Cloud - Running QuickBooks in the Cloud: Information from those who know Mashable - HOW TO:  Create Custom Twitter Backgrounds Accounting Today for the WebCPA - Selling Your Services?  Think Like a Buyer Inc. Magazine - 3 DIY Facebook Design Services PC Magazine - 100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 TFCN -…
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14Jun 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday – Tips from Around the Web – 6/14/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday Tips from around the web includes our favorite QuickBooks and business productivity tips from other bloggers around the web.  We hope you’ll find these articles as interesting as we did. Office Manager Tips Negotiating Better Maintenance Terms Twitter in Less Than 5 Minutes a Day Can QuickBooks Keep Up with Microsoft? Which came first, the Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, or Statement of Cash Flows? A Hole in the Safety Net CRM Solution Gets High Marks from QuickBooks ProAdvisors Audit:  IRS Erroneously Gave Out $151 Million in Auto Tax Breaks Bad Bosses Taking a RIDE on the next E-Verify Release That's it for this week's Top 10 Tuesday, stop back next week to see what we've come up with.
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07Jun 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday – Tips from Around the Web – 6/7/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday includes our favorite QuickBooks and business productivity tips for around the web.  We hope you'll find these articles as interesting as we did. The Real World:  Tax Tips for Summer Workers Davis-Bacon Rates Set Well Above Market Pay Government Inefficiency Part Zillion:  Tax Dollars Given to Contractors Who Are Delinquent in Taxes The Biggest Time Saving Tip of All How to Close an Open Sales Order in QuickBooks 4  Tips for Improving Your Home Office Environment Giving Credit Where Credit is Due Why is QuickBooks 2008 Not Working Right Anymore? How to Avoid Conflicting Copies in Drop Box Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program Newly Proposed Scheduling Letter That's it for this week, be sure to check back next week to see what other helpful articles we've…
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10May 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips from Around the Web-5/10/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday features our favorite QuickBooks, social media, construction and business tips from around the web. It's tough to choose just 10 and even tougher to read everything that is of interest - if I did ....... well I wouldn't ever get anything else done! This week's Top 10 include: Carrie Kahn Why Use Accounts Payable? Darren Slaughter The Law of 25 5 Reasons to Use How-To Articles for Contractor Marketing Intuit Small Business Blog How to Deal With Working Alone Top Notch Bookkeeping Can You Read Your Balance Sheet? A Bookkeeper's Corner Do You Have a Bookkeeper Or Do You Have a "Bookkeeper"? ProBlogger 3 Simple Changes to Increase Your Subscribers by 50% BNET 5 Signs That You're The Problem QuickBooks and Beyond QuickBooks Auto Data Recovery QuickBooks…
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03May 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips from Around the Web – 5/3/11

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Top 10 Tuesday features 10 of our favorite tips from around the web. This week’s favorites include: DIYSEO Blog Small Business SEO - 45 Experts on the Biggest Mistakes SMB's Make with SEO and Internet Marketing (and How to Avoid Them) Branding & Marketing Six Questions You Need to Answer to Improve Marketing Effectiveness of Your Website Belshaw Accounting & Tax Services Free Tax Organizer QuickBooks and Your Business What's the Job Market Like for People with QuickBooks Skills? One Hour Bookkeeper.com Bookkeeping Money-Saving Tip #18:  QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax Long for Success Why get QuickBooks Accountant instead of QuickBooks Pro? QuickBooks and Beyond QuickBooks Update for Manage Apps and Services - an Unexpected Update Scott Gregory Can An Inventory Item Have Two Different Descriptions in QuickBooks? Jan's Sushi Bar…
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19Apr 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday #QuickBooks Tips from Around the Web-4/19/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday features 10 of our favorite tips from around the web. This week's favorites include: Microsoft Demo:  Create and use an e-mail template in Outlook 2007 Top Notch Bookkeeping The IRS May Hold You Liable for 941 Payments AccountingWeb Senate repeals 1099 provision; bill goes to President Obama for Signature Obama signs repeal of expanded 1099 requirements Scott Gregory How Do I Remove the Intuit Payment Network Stuff from My Invoices? QuickBooks & Beyond Intuit Statement Write Update Long for Success Top 10 QuickBooks Technical Support Questions QuickBooks and Your Business How to Restrict User Access in QuickBooks? The Contractor's Perspective The Small Business Jobs Act raises the stakes for fraudulent small business Intuit Small Business Blog 10 of the Best, Boldest, and Most Outrageous Tax Deductions Ever…
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12Apr 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips From Around the Web-4/12/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips from around the web has to be one of my favorite things.  I'm always interested in new QuickBooks, business, social networking and productivity tips. Scott Gregory - QuickBooks Expert Alert:  QuickBooks Online - Turbulence in the Cloud Intuit Small Business Blog How to Secure Small Business Government Contracts Free Resources for Minority-Owned Businesses How Not to Trigger an IRS Audit Chris Pirillo 140 QuickBooks Tips - $7.00 IRS Interim guidance on employer-sponsored health coverage information reporting (voluntary in 2011 - mandatory in 2012) Inc. Magazine 9 Tips to Help Redesign Your Company Facebook page 7 Blogging Mistakes That Small Businesses Make Artisteer Create Wordpress themes & Joomla Templates all in minutes QuickBooks & Your Business Best Way Ever to Print Checks in QuickBooks Well that's…
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29Mar 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday – Tips From Around the Web 3/29/2011

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Welcome to Top 10 Tuesday - Tips from around the web!  I hope you all survived your Monday. This weeks top 10 articles are from: Business Blogs: Social Media Explained in Plain English Intuit Small Business Blog Should You Let Your Employees Telecommute?  Legal Questions to Consider. How Does Asset Depreciation Work? Inc. Magazine You've created a company Facebook page.  Now what? Social Media ToolKit Forbes Magazine IRS Wins Big in Six Year Audit Push Journal of Accountancy A primer for accountants on the ins and outs of using LinkedIn for business purposes Nerd Enterprises How to insert videos, images, and formatted text into your Facebook page Accounting Web Federal Contracts - Unallowable Costs Explained One Hour Bookkeeper Diary of a Bad, Bad Bookkeeper - A Warning Sign That's it…
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22Mar 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips from Around the Web-3/22/2011

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Each Tuesday we post our favorite QuickBooks and business tips that we found on the web the previous week – so today we’ll be posting our favorite tips for the week of March 14 through the 18th. Boy it's tough picking just 10 favorite tips!  There is so much really good information out there. This weeks Top 10 favorites are from: AccountingWeb New QuickBooks certification will validate small business accounting skills Accounting Department Do your Accounting Policies Keep Your Financial Records Secure? Scott Gregory - 8 Free QuickBooks Guides Intuit Small Business Blog Why Isn't My Site Showing Up in Google?  7 SEO Tips to Raise Your Ranking Nerd's Knowledge Center Social Media - From Action Plan to Strategy $7 QuickBooks & Beyond QuickBooks & Internet Explorer 9 QuickBooks 2011…
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15Mar 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips From Around the Web – 3/15/2011

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We hope you enjoyed the debut of Top 10 Tuesday, here on the QuickBooks for Contractors blog, last week! Each Tuesday we will post our favorite QuickBooks and business tips that we found on the web the previous week – so today we’ll be posting our favorite tips for the week of March 7 through the 11th. This weeks Top 10 favorites are from: One Hour Bookkeeper: One SBO’s Tale of Bookkeeper Theft Diary of a Bad, Bad Bookkeeper:  Men Suck! CPA Site Solutions: What Color Palette Is Right for Your CPA Website?   The Bottom Line: QuickBooks Tutorial – Accounting for Equipment Loans (on YouTube) Top Notch Bookkeeping: Sanity During Tax Season - great advice for all year long!   Business-Keepers Consulting: Backing Up In QuickBooks – also includes…
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08Mar 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Top 10 Tuesday QuickBooks Tips From Around the Web – 3/8/2011

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Top 10 Tuesday is a new feature here on the QuickBooks for Contractors blog and will feature our top 10 favorite QuickBooks tips and articles from around the web.  We hope that you will find them useful too. This weeks favorites are from: Scott Gregory, QuickBooks Expert: QuickBooks and Wireless Networks - They Don't Play Nicely With Each Other QuickBooks and Beyond QuickBooks Mac 2011 Update Stopping QuickBooks Automatic Updates from Installing Nerd's Blog How To Audit Your QuickBooks file - 5 Things EVERY BUSINESS OWNER SHOULD KNOW how to do in QuickBooks QuickSource for QuickBooks blog Upgrade Bug:  COGS convert to "billable" after upgrade to v2011.  Very Messy Do these 2 Easy Steps to Maintain a Healthy, Lean, and Fast QuickBooks file QuickBooks and Your Business How to Repair…
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25Feb 2011 by Nancy Smyth

#Freebie Friday – A Few of My Favorite Things

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This Friday I thought I would share a few of my own favorite "freebies" and a few paid tools with you.  These are just a few of the things that I just don't think I could live without on a daily basis while running my own business, some you may already know about - others you may not. First, the freebies, not in any particular order: CutePDF Writer - turn ANY document into a .pdf.  Download & install CutePDF Writer, it installs as a "printer".  From any program , yes even QuickBooks, choose CutePDF from the printer selection dropdown menu, and ta-da --- your document is now a pdf file. Foxit Reader -  a fast an inexpensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader. Google Docs - easily upload and share files…
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07Feb 2011 by Nancy Smyth

How Effectively Do You Communicate? 4 Tips

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How effectively do you communicate with others?  People skills can be tough!  Some people seem to have been "born with the knack", while others constantly struggle with the ability to communicate well with others.  They want to communicate effectively, to get what they want out of life, to be more assertive, but the natural abilities continue to elude them. Communicate {kuh-myoo-ni-keyt] verb - to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively. Most of my day, every day, includes providing technical support for our software and involves communication with others; via phone or email.  Following are some tips on effective communication and the challenges of how to deal with others. Be Clear: If you want or need something, state it clearly and simply.  Nobody’s a mind reader, so don’t expect…
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