Inside this Issue
- A Message from Doug Sleeter
- 2008 Sleeter Group Conference Update
- 2008 Conference Exhibitor Information - Count Me In, LLC
- Sleeter Group Consultants Network VAR Program
- 2008 Conference Exhibitor Information - NorthPoint Micro Services
- More Education Opportunities - Intuit Professionals User Conference
- Staffing Crisis in The Accounting Profession - Survey
- 2008 Conference Exhibitor Information - Barcoding, Inc.
- XactPAY Web: A Cash Flow Management Tool
- Sleeter Group Webinars
- Maximizing Billable Hours with BillQuick
- 2008 Conference Exhibitor Information - Avalara
- Tricks of The Trade
- The Sleeter Group's Consultants Network
| A Message from Doug Sleeter |  |
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I’m happy to announce that we are now taking registrations for the 2008 Accounting Software Consulting Conference, held this year on November 10-13 in Phoenix, AZ. I sure hope you’ll join us for this information-packed, fun-filled 4-day event. We’ll have over 60 exhibitors this year, and several hundred accounting professionals. The event has grown tremendously over the past few years, and if you haven’t been able to make it yet, this should be your year. Come and learn while having a great time.
I heard great reviews from Chuck Vigeant’s Reporting Bootcamp, held a couple weeks ago in Houston, and we’re looking for more tricks from Chuck on how to get the most information out of your accounting data.
If you haven’t attended one of our webinars, you should really check them out. These 1- to 2-hour webinars are a very efficient way to learn in depth on a variety of topics that are relevant to your consulting practice. Check our web site for the catalog of topics.
June is going to be quite a busy month. I’ll be attending the CalCPA show in Los Angeles, then the AICPA TECH conference in Las Vegas, then the Intuit Accounting Professional’s Conference in Orlando, and then the BillQuick User’s Conference in Las Vegas. So it will be quite a busy month and I hope to meet you at one or more of these events.
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The 5th annual Sleeter Group Conference will be held in Phoenix, Arizona November 10-13 at the Renaissance Glendale hotel. The conference is for accounting professionals, bookkeepers, CPAs, and small business technology consultants.
Conference Registration Is Now Open!
We have finalized our three in-depth Pre Conference sessions and are now taking registration for both the pre conference sessions and the three day main conference. Be sure to register early as space at the conference hotel is limited. We are offering two NEW pre conference sessions this year!
Pre Conference Sessions - Monday, November 10th:
Taking Your Practice Online
Web Stores and Ecommerce Integration with PDG Commerce
QuickBooks Point of Sale Consulting
NEW! Optional (Free) Evening Sessions on Monday, November 10th:
We will offer two sessions the evening before the main conference starts:
- Fishbowl Inventory Consulting
- Adagio FX Financial Statement Design & Adagio by Softrak
Low Pricing!
We are pleased to announce that conference registration fees for 2008 are as low as $552 per person for the main conference and as low as $195 per person for a Pre Conference session! Visit www.sleeter.com/seminars for more pricing information.
Exhibitors interested in showcasing your small business accounting software solution? Exhibitor registration is now open. Please click here for more information.
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| Sleeter Group Consultants Network VAR Program | |
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Sleeter Group has been working on building a value added reseller program for our members. Through this program, members will be able to engage with a variety of software products which we believe deliver significant business value to users, and members will be encouraged to work with these solutions and earn additional business revenue at the same time.
Click the link below to find out more.
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| More Education Opportunities - Intuit Professionals User Conference | |
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The 2008 Intuit Accounting Professionals User Conference
Two Locations to Choose From
- With optional pre-conference events the evening before each conference
A 2-day, highly interactive event designed specifically for Lacerte® and QuickBooks® users and QuickBooks® consultants. Save $75 by registering by May 30th.
User Conference Highlights:
- World-class interactive sessions designed to help you be more productive.
- Learn best practices from peers, Intuit subject matter experts and industry experts.
- Choose from a wide variety of relevant courses.
- Network with colleagues, Intuit staff and industry experts from across the country.
- Attend optional hands-on training sessions.
- And of course, receive CPE credits!
Doug Sleeter will be speaking on a panel at the Orlando location (and will be available to visit with attendees in the "Learning Lounge"). Sherrill Sleeter will be available to visit with attendees in the Learning Lounge at the San Diego location.
For more information, go to http://accountant.intuit.com/conference/index.aspx
| Staffing Crisis in The Accounting Profession - Survey | |
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Finding and retaining qualified staff at all levels is a critical concern for many accounting firms today. Doug Sleeter will be part of a panel discussion on this topic at the upcoming Accounting Professional’s User Conference in Orlando.
In order for us to measure this issue among the QuickBooks consulting community, we would like to have you fill out a brief survey. Please take the brief survey.
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| XactPAY Web: A Cash Flow Management Tool | |
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Last year, The Hartford launched a new value added product for QuickBooks Payroll named XactPAY Web. It’s a patent-pending, payroll-based workers’ compensation premium billing service that allows a business to pay their workers’ comp premium on a pay-as-you-go basis. The benefit is that it calculates insurance premiums for a Hartford workers’ compensation policy based on actual payrolls and withdraws that amount directly from the insured’s bank account with every payroll run through QuickBooks. It is available as a workers’ compensation billing service at no additional charge for Hartford policyholders.
You can read the full article by clicking the link below.
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The Sleeter Group’s Spring Webinar Series includes several new webinars and repeats of our most popular ones from the past. These webinars provide accounting professionals and QuickBooks users with high quality, consultant-level materials and instruction.
- Become an Expert Construction Consultant with Leslie Shiner
5/21, 10-12 pm PDT - NEW! Case Studies in Data File Conversion with Bonnie Nagayama
5/22, 11-1 pm PDT - Tracking Labor Costs and Setting Billing Rates with Leslie Shiner
5/28, 10-12 pm PDT - Nonprofit Consulting with Anna Sheets
6/3, 11-1 pm PDT - Server Technologies for Accounting Software Professionals
with Mario Nowogrodzki 6/4, 11-1 pm PDT - NEW! Tips and Tools for Training Online with Amy Vetter
6/11, 11-1 pm PDT - Understanding Your Network Options with Mario Nowogrodzki
6/24, 11-1 pm PDT - Marketing and Selling Your Services with Leslie Shiner
6/25, 10-11 am PDT - NEW! Profitable Business Growth for You and Your Clients with Leslie Shiner
6/26, 10-12 pm PDT
Regular price for webinars are $49 for one-hour and $99 for two-hours.
View our schedule at www.sleeter.com/webinars for more details.
| Maximizing Billable Hours with BillQuick | |
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For professionals, time is an asset that we use to generate revenues and profits. But it decays fast. Once time is gone, it cannot be recovered. BillQuick billing software offers robust and adaptable features for your professional services clients to track billable hours and minimize non-billable hours. With BillQuick you can manage time (expenses, billing, projects and more) from your desktop, using a web browser, and via a Smartphone.
This article covers many BillQuick time saving features, including adapting to market segments and easy access via web broswers, Smartphones, PDA and email.
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| Tricks of The Trade | |
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Every day, members of The Sleeter Group Consultants Network tackle the day-to-day problems of their clients in the real world. The following is an example problem and solution that surfaced this month on our Sleeter Group Consultants Network E-Mail Group.
Question: Has anyone experienced missing part of a list ? My client’s customer list stops at ‘W’ even though there are customers in the system beyond ‘W’. I closed/reopended the file, verified data and the last part of the customer list is still missing. Any ideas as to why this is happening or what the fix might be?
Laurie O’Neil responded: I had this happen with a brand new client in QuickBooks Accountants Edition 2008, we were creating a new file and we imported the customer list in from the old file. I added a couple of new clients which began with the letter "S" and the list stopped at R. I verified and everything came back fine. I was bewildered. I had never had this happen before creating a brand new file. Ultimately what I ended up doing was rebuilding the file anyways and this fixed the problem.
Jeanne Miller Tarazevits suggested: One thing to try is to create and then restore a Portable Company file. Also resorting the lists might help.
Wayne Higdon added: This missing list problem could be related to this…. In a new file, I first added a Customer with Quick Add. After that, I couldn’t see customers in the Customer Center but could see them in some drop-down lists. QuickAdd turned out to be the cause of the problem. When I deleted the customer list and started again without QuickAdd, everything worked. This was in Premier 2008.
Matt Clark weighed in: What happens when you resort the list? You could try adding a column to the customer list (like “phone number”, or “Bill to 2”, something with data in it) and sort by that column. Do the Clients below “W” show up then? Also, what happens on the reports when you print a customer list? Sometimes QuickBooks gets confused with list tables. The fix is to resort in order to fix the issue (verify and rebuild won’t fix the issue).
Final Response: Thank you all for your input. I will try the various tactics and let you know what worked. I love this group – such a great network of people willing to share their knowledge and experience.
| The Sleeter Group's Consultants Network | |
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The Sleeter Group Consultants Network is the nation’s premier accounting software consultant’s network. With over 600 members located throughout the US and Canada, our members serve over 150,000 small businesses. We provide expert QuickBooks consulting, add-on integration services, business process workflow consulting, outsourced bookkeeping services, and financial statement preparation.
In addition to client consulting, many of our consultants provide consulting services to software developers who seek advice on the best practices for integrating their applications with QuickBooks and other accounting software products. To locate one of our certified consultants visit our Find a Consultant page. To learn more about becoming a consultant visit our Become a Consultant page or call our office at 888-484-5484. Members of the network receive a substantial discount on products and our annual conference.