Tag: Excel
Creatures of Habit
Creatures of habit and the comfort zone. I have consistently opined about the varied ways that business look at their data, and I find the enigma of human behavior fascinating when it comes to ‘how and why’ somebody looks at something that relates to their business. With respect to hand held devices, I have often [...]
QuickBooks 2012 R8 Released
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2012 R8 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. This is another major update for the 2012 product, with a long list of changes. Please note that I have not had the opportunity to check or confirm each of the issues listed here. At the time I’m writing this the [...]
QuickBooks 2012 R5 Released
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2012 R5 update to the U.S. versions of QuickBooks. There are quite a few changes here, ranging from minor and cosmetic issues all the way up to some major changes. There are some important changes to permissions and data access as well as some fixes for tricky issues in Enterprise price/cost [...]
QuickBooks 2012 R3 Released
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2012 R3 update for the U.S. versions of QuickBooks. Here is an overview of what the update contains. There is an extensive list of changes, which is not unusual with the R3 release of any version of QuickBooks. Some are bug fixes, some are enhancements, and there is at least [...]
QuickBooks 2012 Excel Integration Improvements
QuickBooks has your data, you want to get it into reports that are formatted the way that YOU want. You can customize or modify QuickBooks reports, but the options are limited. How do you get things to look right? Many QuickBooks users will export to Microsoft Excel and then reformat the reports. If you are [...]
QuickBooks 2012 Automatic Cost and Price Updates
Here’s another Inventory feature for QuickBooks 2012 – and again this is only available in QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. You can now set QuickBooks to update the Cost of inventory parts and assemblies when you receive them, and also the Sales Price when the Cost changes. I know quite a few people who have been looking for this [...]
QuickBooks 2012 Overview
QuickBooks 2012 is Coming! Set for release later in September, QuickBooks 2012 contains a significant number of new features, as well as improvements to existing ones. Some additions have me very excited and are very welcome. FIFO inventory, Serial/Lot Tracking, Lead management, free local attached documents, and much much more! This article will list the [...]
Business Metrics–Static to Dynamic
The traditional methods of data gathering– especially in the world of compliance reporting – is to provide a report that can be run over and over again, with the same format, and with few options. In this article, I discuss the evolvement of business metrics, and what it will take to make information quickly available [...]
