05Jan 2012 by Nancy Smyth

Employee Education & Training – Are You Making the Investment?

"Maad" Rants & Other Stuff, Be A Better Bookkeeper
Employee education and training is an investment that every business owner should make.  As a business owner, your company policies should include employee education and training requirements. Whether you are a business owner or an employee, education and training is part of your daily life - like it or not.   We need it in order to deal with new complexities that we face at work, for career advancement, and to obtain certification. Being a business owner myself, I find myself learning new things on a daily basis in order to make my job easier and more efficient.  For example, right now as I prepare this blog post,  I'm working with a new piece of software called Dragon Naturally Speaking.  Dragon allows me to dictate my blog post instead of physically…
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11Mar 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Freebie Friday – AIA Billing (G-702/G-703) Training Exercise

Be A Better Bookkeeper, Customers & Accounts Receivable, Free & Fee-Based QuickBooks eBooks, The "Sunburst" Website
Freebie Friday!  The work week is just about over (for some of us, that is). This week's item is a fee-based AIA (G-702/G-703) Billing Training exercise. Have you ever been asked to complete a G-702 and G-703 billing form and don't know where to even start?  If so, than this training exercise is just what the doctor ordered! Most anyone will tell you that completing the AIA G-702 and G-703 forms by hand is frustrating and difficult.  To fill out one correctly, you pretty much have to: forget about any basic accounting principals you've ever learned ignore change orders that have been submitted or approved, but not processed ignore money that is still outstanding from previously submitted applications for payment You need to realize that the payment applications that you submit…
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07Jan 2011 by Nancy Smyth

Lesson 1-Getting Started; FREE QuickBooks for Contractors Training eBook

Free & Fee-Based QuickBooks eBooks
Well it's Freebie Friday again here on the QuickBooks for Contractors blog.  With the new year, we have a whole bunch of NEW ebook lined up to offer you.  We hope you enjoy them and that you'll take the time to leave us a brief comment as to what you think about them. And now, with no further delay.............this week's ebook is........... Lesson 1 - Getting Started; Introducing QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition. Lesson 1 - Getting Started is intended for new QuickBooks users or users who feel that they would like a “refresher” course and will: Discuss why you need to keep books for your business. Discuss why you need to keep books from the IRS's point of view. Using Forms and Registers to record transactions. Teach you how to…
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04Feb 2009 by Nancy Smyth

New & Updated “Certified Payroll Solution” Audio/Video Training

The "Sunburst" Website
With all of the enhancements (new features, forms, functionality) that we've made to Certified Payroll Solution in the last 1/2 years - not to mention the release of the new Federal WH-347 Certified payroll report and reporting requirements.....I decided it was time to get off my duff and update some of our training videos. After nearly 4 days of screen capture, audio recording, and editing I'm happy to announce that two of the video's (totally a little over 1 hour of viewing time) are now available in the Certified Payroll Solution Training, Support & Resource Center - in the Free Training Category. The video's that have been updated are the "Certified Payroll Solution Initial Setup Video" and the "Running Certified Payroll Solution Video". Updated videos are available in their original…
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22Dec 2008 by Nancy Smyth

What does the Sunburst Support Area need?

The "Sunburst" Website
As our website evolves and our customer and newsletter subscriber base grows, we wonder what else our website needs. We've noticed that an increasing number of "QuickBooks consultants" {ProAdvisors, CPA's, Intuit Solution Providers, etc} have been signing up for our newsletter; and that has got me to "thinking" about a "Consultant's Corner" section of the Support Area - but what types of articles do you need? For all who visit our Support Area, please feel free to post comment/requests on what types of articles and training you would like to see made available. Nancy
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12Dec 2008 by Nancy Smyth

I want unlimited free training…

"Stuff" that drives me insane
but I'm charging my client Ok, this one just totally drives me "INSANE"! We come into contact with some ProAdvisors and the like that have never dealt with a commercial construction client and know absolutely nothing about certified payroll, aia billing, or using QuickBooks in the commercial construction industry. Ok, so I know that there isn't much in the way of QuickBooks training out their for this kind of situation - what I know I learned the hard way with lots of long, hard unbillable hours....but PLEASE don't call us up wanting free training and for us to teach you everything we know for FREE while you bill your customer for your "training time"! That is just so wrong! If you want to become knowledgeable about using QuickBooks in the…
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