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This classic excerpt for The Sleeter Group’s QuickBooks Consultant Reference Guide – Version 2009 covers setting up a QuickBooks file mid-year.

It would be really easy for us to tell you why you should come to The Sleeter Group’s Next Generation Accounting Solutions Conference, but it gets tiring spending days and nights coming up with positive marketing language. So instead, we’re listing for you the top five reasons not to join us in Orlando in November … but why those reasons don’t hold water! These thoughts might just give you a whole new way of looking at the investment in time and money it takes to come to a valuable event such as this! Read on…

In Part I, we discussed that owners of small companies live and breathe their businesses. Cash to fund operations often comes from the owner, and most owners also take cash out of the company as distributions. It is common to see both cash inflows and outflows on a frequent basis throughout the year. Part I focused on various methods of tracking this activity as it relates to an S Corp in a QuickBooks file. In Part II we promised to discuss some of the “bad news” that comes with the flexibility of S Corporations. In particular, we will be discussing one of the most common tax problems for an S Corporation: “Distributions in excess of basis”. This is a fancy phrase that means there are distributions paid to the owner during the year, and there is an ending deficit in the total equity balance.

We gave you glimpse into the inner workings of the QODBC driver - without having to use a database, fancy report writers - or even Excel. If you want to have a better idea of what the driver has - or does - this is the simplest way of finding out. If you are experienced, use this tool to extract which columns you need for your report, or learn more about the data it retrieves. Even grandpa Chuck still uses this tool.

This month Chuck Vigeant reveals a glimpse of the brand new Sales Performance Analyzer tool released last week to QuickBooks Enterprise Customers, and current non-Enterprise beta testers. Last year, Chuck was independently contracted by Intuit as a data architect, an expert in Business Objects technology, and a QuickBooks/Sybase data analyst; he worked with a team of Product and Production Managers, database engineers, asset design engineers, and Quality Assurance personnel that delivered the Business Analysis Offering. Here is his bird's eye view of this brand new tool.

QuickBooks 2009 and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 9.0 have features that will extend the usability of QuickBooks, including Multi-Currency and improved Multi-User capability. There are also several features that will help accounting professionals, such as Client Data Review and Intuit Statement Writer 2009. This extensive article covers what's new and how you can use these features in your practice. It is an excerpt from The Sleeter Group's QuickBooks Consultants Reference Guide 2009.

At The Sleeter Group, our whole year is spent studying the marketplace of add-on solutions and consulting with developers who seek to provide better solutions for our clients. And for several years now, we’ve spotlighted several special products we call "awesome add-ons."