Experts And Those Who Would Like You To Think They Are

Experts And Those Who Would Like You To Think They Are

"Stuff" that drives me insane
There are self proclaimed experts everywhere when it comes to QuickBooks.  As business owners you should use caution and interview your candidates carefully. Just for giggles, I did a Google search using "quickbooks expert" it returned about 83,200 results; that's a lot of experts! The point to this blog post?  Well to be honest, part of it is a rant and the other part a warning. The Rant: At a recent nationally recognized QuickBooks conference there were two people who were asked/hired by the conference host to provide training sessions to other QuickBooks accounting professionals: one person gave three, one hours sessions on payroll.  This person had stolen (word for word) blog posts not only from my blog but from another bloggers site as well - and claimed them as…
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QuickBooks 3rd Party Applications – How Integration Works

QuickBooks Add-Ons, The "Sunburst" Website
  The integration between QuickBooks and a third-party application is transparent, the communication between the two programs takes place behind the scenes leaving very little to be seen - often only the end result of a report or task done outside of QuickBooks OR a transaction created in the 3rd party program that is posted into the data file. As the QuickBooks developer I'm asked, almost on a daily basis, how our software integrates with QuickBooks.  Providing an explanation is not an easy task - integration was designed to be transparent with most of the actual communication between the programs going on behind the scenes - within the thousand of lines of software code written by the developer. Everyone says "I need to SEE how IT (the integration) works". It's…
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