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Intuit Endorses The Sleeter Group's QuickBooks® Seminars!

Pleasanton, CA – April 26, 2002

The Sleeter Group, Inc. announced today that Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks software, has endorsed their QuickBooks Technology Workshops along with their Managing and Marketing Your Practice seminars.  During 2002, The Sleeter Group will present over 30 seminars for accounting professional entitled “QuickBooks Technology Workshops.” These workshops focus on designing and troubleshooting QuickBooks-based small business accounting systems and supporting clients who use QuickBooks.  Seminars on Managing and Marketing Your Practice, added in 2001, will provide innovative marketing and cost-saving management procedures and will be offered in 18 additional markets this year. 

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In This Issue

Sales Tax Changes QuickBooks® 2002

By Douglas Sleeter and Joe Woodard

If you sell products and/or certain types of services, chances are you’ll need to collect sales tax. In most states, each county has a different tax rate, and you are required to track and report all your sales by county. If you sell non-taxable goods (e.g. products to resellers or retail sales to government agencies) many states also require a breakdown of total non-taxable sales and the reason for the non-taxability. You might even have to track sales by city and collect sales tax as different rates for each city in which you do business.

Sales tax tracking is automatic and runs smoothly if you setup and operate QuickBooks correctly. If your QuickBooks file was not set up correctly, or if the Sales Tax feature has not been properly used in transactions, you will probably have a significant amount of troubleshooting to do in order to diagnose and repair the problems. It is very important to ensure that your setup and data entry procedures are accurate in order to keep the sales tax feature working smoothly. This is a very complicated and time-consuming process for which you may want to seek the help of a Sleeter Group Certified Consultant. (Visit our website at www.sleeter.com to search for a consultant in your area.) The Sleeter Group’s Consultant’s Reference Guide also contains information on troubleshooting the sales tax feature.

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Mark Stricker

Name: Mark Stricker
Company: Benham, Ichen & Knox, LLP
Address: 1117 S. Milwaukee, Suite C-11
City/St./zip: Libertyville, IL 60048
Phone: (847) 362-4310
Fax: (847) 362-5016
Email: mstricker@bikcpa.com
Web site: www.bikcpa.com

In 1993, Mark Stricker graduated from the University of Illinois and became a certified public accountant in the same year. Mark was introduced to Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro and Quicken in 1996 and has continued applying its updates and new versions to his clients’ work ever since. Through the years, Mark has provided financial solutions for numerous clients by customizing QuickBooks to generate more meaningful reports. The reports save data entry time and provide valuable decision-making information for business owners. <Read more>

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