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How to Choose the Right QuickBooks Online Subscription for Your Small Business

Figuring out which Quickbooks subscription is right for you and your business can be tricky.  The accounting and bookkeeping platform is a crucial lifeline for small businesses around the world. Making sense of how to use it for your business can be a challenge though. And one of the first things a new QuickBooks user [...]

Paying Yourself as a Small Business Owner

A problem that many small business owners struggle with is a very basic one - how to pay yourself! It might feel weird to pay yourself as the owner of your own business, but you owe yourself a salary or some form of compensation while you’re maintaining and growing your business. Whether you use Intuit [...]

QuickBooks Online Payroll Changes

Changes are coming to QuickBooks Online Payroll effective March 8, 2021. QBO Online Payroll subscribers will be stepped-up and realize enhanced and frequently requested new capabilities aimed at making payroll runs more reliable, easier and quicker than before.  And three payroll offerings will be available instead of two. The QBO Payroll offerings are: QB Online [...]

S. S. Payroll Tax Deferral Program – Help or Headache?

The latest payroll tax deferral program was recently rushed into existence as part of the U.S. government’s response to the Coronavirus and continues to evolve – and much remains unclear.  Major questions remain which most employers must unfortunately deal with as they remain in the middle, between both the IRS and employees.  For example, it [...]

Payroll Tax Problems and the IRS

Small business owners have so many business tax responsibilities – income taxes (federal and state of course) sales taxes (now hugely more complicated than even a year ago), excise taxes, city and county taxes, franchise taxes, many special taxes, and of course payroll taxes.  This is where part of employee pay is withheld and reported [...]

QB Apps for Inventory and Manufacturing Management

Inventory, warehouse and manufacturing management are rarely named as top features of Intuit QuickBooks Desktop or QuickBooks Online products.  Many clients find these advanced features as difficult to learn and almost impossible in keeping up to date.  Management must often deal with nonsensical numbers such as a balance sheet showing negative inventory or colossal amounts [...]

TSheets and Time Tracking in QB and QBO

There are literally dozens of programs and apps out there to track time, and get the information into your favorite accounting programs in increasingly streamlined ways.  Here is some info on my experience as an accounting supervisor, managing many contractors, employees, clients and jobs: TSheets and Me I have been using TSheets for almost a [...]

New Features and Navigation in QBO

QBO is changing.  Our favorite cloud-based product has some exciting layout and navigation changes, aimed at increasing the speed and accuracy of accounting work from regular QBO users to Certified Advanced ProAdvisors alike. A summary of what we will be seeing is below.  This will be rolled out over the next few weeks.  If you [...]

Time to Move Fast on 2016 1099’s

  It's still only January but time to get going on 1099's!  There are some important changes for QB users in filing 2016 IRS Form 1099's including due dates and QB options. Intuit 1099 e-file service The Intuit 1099 e-file service may be the best choice to get it done fast and effectively - except for [...]