Tag: Sales Tax
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 [...]
Managing QuickBooks Sales Tax with AvaTax Calc
Managing Sales Tax in QuickBooks can be a pain for some businesses. In the past I talked about the basics of setting up sales tax in QuickBooks, and recently I showed you how to import sales tax rates into QuickBooks. It can be difficult! Now, let’s talk about how you can use AvaTax Calc by [...]
Importing Sales Tax Rates into QuickBooks
Dealing with sales tax rates in QuickBooks Desktop can be a pain, particularly if you are working with customers in many different locations. It used to be that we just had to worry about our local tax rate, when selling items to customer who walked in the door. Now, most businesses are finding that they [...]
QuickBooks Online–Changes for December 2012
Here’s a quick look at the changes that you’ll see in QuickBooks Online in the release coming out in December 2012. These will be rolled out in two waves – some users will see these starting on December 13 (you are the lucky ones who get to test this!), the rest will see these on [...]
QuickBooks 2013 Client Data Review Improvements
There are a couple of changes to the Client Data Review feature of the Accountant editions of QuickBooks 2013 that are helpful. PLEASE NOTE that much of this is based on information from an early release candidate of QuickBooks 2013 – it is possible that some features may vary from what is described here. Also, [...]
In Search of the Perfect QuickBooks Shopping Cart Integration
In my previous blog article Ecommerce, Shopping Carts and QuickBooks I talked about how to choose a shopping cart. Now let’s take a deeper dive into some of the areas that should be considered before choosing a shopping cart or a software program that integrates a shopping cart with a back end accounting system. As [...]
The Sleeter Group Awesome Add-Ons for 2012
Every year since 2006 The Sleeter Group has announced a list of Awesome Add-Ons, a list of high quality software, service and hardware products that add specific functions to accounting software applications. Here’s the list of products that were selected by The Sleeter Group’s pane of technical and marketing experts for 2012, as announced at [...]
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 for Restaurants
Many restaurants can use QuickBooks very effectively for their back office work and for purchasing, bill paying, and payroll. Let’s take a look at how you might set up QuickBooks in a situation where the restaurant has cash registers or a Point of Sale system that ring up sales by each server. Summary information will [...]
Business Metrics
This month, I am going to discuss one of my favorite topics – business metrics. I came across a small interview of Cisco CEO John Chambers, in which he discussed one of the larger strategies for Cisco’s partner community; he stated that the future role of the consultant will be more about ‘business outcomes’, as [...]
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