Author Archive: Charlie Russell
Charlie Russell is the founder of CCRSoftware. He's been involved with the small business software industry since the mid 70's, and remembers releasing his first commercial accounting software product when you had a one-floppy disk drive system, loading the program from one floppy and then replacing that with the other floppy to hold the data. He has a special interest in inventory and manufacturing software for small businesses. Charlie is a Certified Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor with additional certifications for QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Enterprise. He also is a Xero Certified Partner. Visit his CCRSoftware web site for information about his QuickBooks add-on products. Charlie can be reached at charlie.russell@sleeter.com
He is also the author of the California Wildflower Hikes blog and a regular blog contributor to the Intuit Inner Circle.
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QuickBooks Manufacturing–Lot Number Workaround
QuickBooks Enterprise has an optional Advanced Inventory add-on (which is an annual subscription) and one of the features is Inventory Lot Tracking. However, when you use this in a manufacturing environment there are a few little tricks you need to be aware of. Let’s talk about what to do if your component demand is larger [...]
Cloud Accounting with Xero–An Overview
As a part of my ongoing series of articles on cloud accounting programs for small businesses, let’s take a look at Xero. This is a product that started in New Zealand in 2006, and they brought their product to the US just a few years ago. It is a well-funded company that has a lot [...]
QuickBooks Online–Changes for May 2013
Here’s a quick look at some recent, and upcoming, changes to QuickBooks Online. Some of these are already available, some will be coming out in the near future. Many of these features are found in, or linked to, QuickBooks Online Accountant. Create a New Company for your clients from within QuickBooks Online Accountant. A link [...]
QuickBooks Sales Tax– Negative Value on Liability Report
If you are using the sales tax feature in QuickBooks then you are most likely relying on the Sales Tax Liability report to show you the total taxable sales amount for your reporting period. Sometimes, though, there can be a very confusing entry in that report, and I often get calls asking about this. People [...]
Cloud Accounting with QuickBooks Online–The Details
I introduced you to QuickBooks Online (QBO) in our prior article (QuickBooks Online Overview), now let’s dig in a bit deeper. In our attempt to come up with a standard for comparing online accounting systems, we (Doug Sleeter, MB Raimondi and myself) came up with a list of features that we would like to see [...]
Cloud Accounting with QuickBooks Online–An Overview
As a part of my ongoing series of articles on cloud accounting programs for small businesses, lets take a look at QuickBooks Online. It’s been around for awhile, it’s from a company that has a big presence in the small business accounting market, it’s one you are going to run into often. Intuit is making [...]
Fixing QuickBooks Problems: Free Tools You Can Use
Any time that you are working with a program that runs on Microsoft Windows you have to be ready to fix odd problems that can crop up. QuickBooks is no exception – it relies on many different components and settings in Windows to work properly, and if something isn’t right then QuickBooks just won’t run [...]
QuickBooks 2008 R11 Released
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2008 R11 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. This is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site. I’m not sure how this will be handled as far as automatic updates. Similar to the recent QuickBooks 2009 R15 update this is an update of a retired [...]
Digging In To QuickBooks PDF Issues
Another article on QuickBooks and PDF’s. This time I want to explain some “inner workings” of QuickBooks and PDF drivers that I didn’t understand before now. This will mostly be of interest to those of you who like the technical details, but it may help if you are trying to work out some technical issues [...]
ZenCash Dashboard for Receivables Management
Earlier this year Stacy Kildal wrote about ZenCash as a product/service that you can use to manage your receivables and collections. Let’s take a look at a new feature they have added earlier this year, the ZenCash Dashboard. If you are managing a business that has a significant amount of receivables, this dashboard can give [...]
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