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Learn To Use QuickBooks In Your Construction Business
Learn to use QuickBooks in your construction business is a new support and training site provides answers and techniques that are not available in the QuickBooks® Help file or even even QuickBooks® conferences designed for accounting professionals. Continue reading
Troubleshooting 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 or 7 computer. Learn how to create a new administrator account and change the original account into a standard user account. Continue reading
Planning Your Accounts Receivable Collections
If you are in a business like construction where the terms are frequently more than 30 days to begin with, then you definitely want to take a deeper look at what is in your accounts receivable balance and when you expect to collect it. Continue reading
Top 10 Thursday – News from around the Web 2/2/12
10 articles from the web on General Business, Bookkeeping, Accounting, Payroll & Taxes, Construction, Marketing and Social Media Continue reading
Bookkeeping/Accounting Tasks and Employee New Hire Packet
Free checklists for keeping track of bookkeeping/accounting tasks and the information needed when you hire a new employee. Helps you meet important deadlines. Continue reading
Top 10 Thursday – News from around the Web 1/19/2012
Ten interesting articles relating to General Business, Bookkeeping, Accounting, Payroll & Taxes, Construction, Marketing & Social media. Continue reading
Reselling Accounting versus Reselling Technology
Reselling Accounting versus Reselling Technology – which one delivers the greatest value to your client, and to your business? Continue reading
QuickBooks Creating a More Meaningful Payroll Expenses Section
QuickBooks, by default, offers a single account called Payroll Expenses in your Chart of Accounts and all of the pre-programmed Payroll Items for wages and taxes are assigned to that one single account. Continue reading
QuickBooks Tip-Tracking Retainage Payable to Subcontractors
There are two possible ways to track retainage that you owe to your subcontractors; one method utilizes a Sub-Account of Accounts Payable, called Retainage Payable, and the other method utilizes an Other Liability Account, called Retainage Due to Subcontractors. Please review the setup and use of both methods, and choose whichever one seems more appropriate for your use. Continue reading
Freebie Friday-Bookkeeping & Accounting Tasks Schedule
We've compiled a list of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual bookkeeping and accounting tasks to help you stay on track. Continue reading
QuickBooks Tip-What Account Should I Use?
Frequently you will run across a transaction that you just aren’t sure which account you should be posting it too. Often times you end up “just picking one”, and tell yourself that you’ll remember to ask your accountant about it Continue reading
Starting a New QuickBooks File? Benefits of the EasyStep Interview
When starting a new QuickBooks company data fle, some Chart of Accounts items are automatically created. Continue reading
QuickBooks Tip – Understanding Your Chart of Accounts
The QuickBooks Chart of Accounts is a complete list of a businesses accounts and their balances. You will use it to track how much money you have spent, how much money you have – and - how much money you owe. Continue reading
QuickBooks and the Myth of Do-It-Yourself Accounting
You feel the lure of those seductive little marketing messages that they whisper to you, but be careful about falling for that "do-it-yourself" myth, because these seductive little messages don't include some very important information that you need to know in order to make a sound business decision. Continue reading
QuickBooks Tip – Merging Duplicate Items and/or Accounts
It is a common occurrence over time, especially if you have had numerous bookkeepers; to discover that you have duplicate items in your QuickBooks Item List or accounts in your Chart of Accounts. Continue reading
About Your Host:
Nancy Smyth, Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc.QuickBooks Construction & Payroll Expert
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.
QuickBooks is a powerful product, but learning how to use it in your construction business can be difficult. I hope you find resources available here to be helpful.
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