Category: Charlie’s Rants

Charlies Rants

QuickBooks and Windows 8

Sheesh, I just got used to Windows 7, and now they are coming out with Windows 8? Now we have to worry about QuickBooks being compatible with ANOTHER operating system? I got hold of a “Consumer Preview” copy of Windows 8 and I’m trying it out with QuickBooks – let’s see how it works!

| March 1, 2012 | 14 Comments More

We’d Like Your Feedback

We started QuickBooks and Beyond a year ago, and it is time for us to get some feedback from our readers. I hope that you can find the time to take a short survey (the link is at the bottom of the article). Several years ago I started “Practical QuickBooks”, a blog that would let [...]

| February 9, 2012 | 6 Comments More

QuickBooks Online Data Access and Security

I have a “thing” about data security. I think that most businesses don’t do a good job in securing their data. They don’t make backups properly, they don’t protect the data, they don’t ensure that they will continue to have access to important information,  they don’t understand what is being done with their data. Lately [...]

| January 4, 2012 | 8 Comments More

Charlie’s Rant: Why Can’t Intuit Communicate?

We’re going to take a break from our regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you “Charlie’s Rant”, a more or less monthly post where I’ll set aside my usual balanced and sane commentary on QuickBooks and other Intuit-related items and allow myself to complain about something that is bugging me. Today I’m going to rant about [...]

| October 18, 2011 | 50 Comments More