QuickBooks 2011 – What’s New?
QuickBooks 2011 will be available to purchase beginning on September 27, 2010, review of new features and improvements. A new feature or functionality initially introduced in QuickBooks 2011 is also available in the next release or version of the program, so the information you find here will also be relative to newer versions.
Freebie Friday – QuickBooks Premier 2011, the Official eGuide
Freebie Friday's are all about Free eBooks, sometimes they are eBooks that we've created and other times they are eBooks that we've found on the web. Continue reading
QuickBooks Tip – Upgrading to 2011 Forms & Template Errors
If you've recently upgrade to QuickBooks 2011 and are experiencing "Template Errors" or "Missing Arial W1 font" messages, here's a quick fix. Continue reading
Free QuickBooks Ebooks – FREEBIE Friday
A list of the current QuickBooks related eBooks that we have available - I do have several new ebooks that are ready to go, but you'll have to wait until after the first of the year in order to have access to them. Continue reading
FREE QuickBooks 2011 Contest – Enter to Win
FREE QuickBooks 2011 Contest - Enter to Win. Ruth Perryman, Michelle Long, Laura Madeira & Bonnie Nagayama have teamed up with Intuit to offer FREE QuickBooks software. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – Can’t Verify Subscription Without Internet
Have you or your clients received a QuickBooks 2011 message window stating We can't detect your internet connection, so we can't verify your QuickBooks subscription or a UAC window for a QuickBooks Utility Application? Continue reading
What’s New in QuickBooks 2011 – A Comprehensive Overview
Free eBook - "What's New in QuickBooks 2011 - A Comprehensive Overview". For those of you who follow this blog, you'll know that I've been posting about new features and functions of QuickBooks 2011 since early September - because I believe that it's important to learn as much as we can. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011-Estimates & More Excluded from Closing Date
If you are a QuickBooks user be sure to tell your accountant about the ability to exclude Estimate from the Closing Date - if you are an accounting professional who sets a closing date on your clients file - ask them if they need access to these transactions BEFORE you set the closing date, they'll love you for it! Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011-Upgrade or Not Upgrade, THAT is the question
We usually suggest that you wait a month or two, or until after you have generated employee W-2's, before you update to a new version of QuickBooks. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – Batch Invoicing Increases Efficiency
Batch Invoicing was first introduced with QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014. I have two issues with the Batch Invoicing feature. You can only add new customers to a billing group at the Step 1 screen and you cannot determine what Billing Group a customer belongs to in the customer or job record. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011-New Collections Center Helps Business Owners
The Collections Center is a new feature in QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; that help business owners and Accounts Receivable personnel manage their Accounts Receivable by easily identifying customers with overdue or nearly overdue payments, by "flagging" them - without having to run any additional reports Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – New Balance Sheet by Class Report – Part 11
The Balance Sheet by Class Report was first introduced with QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; has specific requirements for handling many or our normal day-to-day transactions. This is the last installment of our 11-part series on the Balance Sheet by Class Report, we'll discuss how you cannot use the Funds Transfer window to transfer funds between classes - instead you will have to make a journal entry to transfer funds between classes. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – New Balance Sheet by Class Report – Part 10
The Balance Sheet by Class Report was first introduced with QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; has specific requirements for handling many or our normal day-to-day transactions. Currently there is a "bug" that effects the Profit & Loss by Class report when it displays the final vendor payments, which then also adversely affects the Balance Sheet by Class Report. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – New Balance Sheet by Class Report – Part 9
The Balance Sheet by Class Report was first introduced with QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; has specific requirements for handling many or our normal day-to-day transactions. The QuickBooks Help file says that the Balance Sheet by Class Report doesn't support multiple currencies, and that you shouldn't attempt to run or use this report if you use multicurrency in QuickBooks. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – New Balance Sheet by Class Report – Part 8
The Balance Sheet by Class Report was first introduced with QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; has specific requirements for handling many or our normal day-to-day transactions. Paying and taking an early payment discount for a vendor bill that has multiple classes causes a difference in net income between the Balance Sheet by Class and the Profit & Loss by Class reports because only a single class can be assigned to the discount. Continue reading
QuickBooks 2011 – New Balance Sheet by Class Report – Part 7
The Balance Sheet by Class Report was first introduced with QuickBooks 2011, however, it is also available in QuickBooks 2012, 2013, and 2014; has specific requirements for handling many or our normal day-to-day transactions. A net income difference between the Balance Sheet by Class and the Profit & Loss by Class reports occurs when the customer pays you and you use the Receive Payments window to record an early payment discount, because you can only assign a single class to the discount. Continue reading
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I've been using and supporting QuickBooks products since the early 1990's. I've worked with thousands of contractors, assisting them with QuickBooks setup, Certified Payroll Reporting requirements, AIA Billing and Weighted-Average Overtime.
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