What most companies don’t know is that when you sign up for Quick books payroll you most of the time you are set up under the auto renew. So each year on your renewal date, Intuit (quickbooks) will place the renewal charges on your credit card.

Sounds good me, right?

Problem for my client was they didn’t update the expiration date of the card with Intuit. When that happens Intuit sends only one email. Like all of us it seems like a solitation and we simply ignore it.

After about a week or so the payroll will still allow you to post checks but won’t let you use direct deposit and the system won’t allow tax or other deduction from occuring. So basically you will be making GROSS paycheck..

The only real way to correct this is to immediate pay for your missing subription. So whenever you see a big red triangle in the payroll second of the home screen, follow the direction to renew.

Hope this saves several minutes of what to do if this should happen to you.

I guess with this topic it truly doesn’t matter. What I am talking about it hiring.
Hopefully as you read this you will reconsider what we all have had to deal with in the past 25-48 months and
that is hiring workers.

Without a doubt, no companies were bringing on new staff. Most companies were actually doing the reverse, that being
“downsizing”. I guess it came down to staying in business at all or keep all of your staff during those time. With respect to
laid off employees, employers did make the right call by laying of numerous employees.

Now that the economy is slowly coming back, it is time, once again, for those same employers to rehire past employees or
seek that new staff member. If all of us would hire just one person, the positive feeling we could share around the country would
be outstanding.

So now its time to say, “Your Hired!”

I must admit that even though I thought it was a glorified Pro version, I did actually like it.
To me, the report functions were certainly different than Pro 2012. The ease of use of the home page
which is similar in all version to Quickbooks desktop versions, was the same here in Premier.

But in all honesty, “I” could justify the cost for my “own” business, compared to Pro 2012.

Did you know that the price is $380ish for Premier and Pro 2012 is like #192. That a big difference.

Wondering what you folks all think. Drop me a line Pro and Premier users.

Burt@wisconsinquickbooks.com

Wow, today is January 18, 2011 and April 18th is coming up soon. Why do I say April 18th is tax day? This year the IRS has made April 18th the filing deadline. Well to many procrastinators your jumping up and down right? But not so fast.

Start preparing now for this deadline and get your paperwork together. The three days basically falls on a weekend and most tax preparers, bookkeeper and Quickbooks Proadvisors don’t usually like to work on clients file on a stresss filled weekend.

How does Quickbooks bookkeeping help you.

If you were to call our office and say ” I have these 4 shoe boxes filled with my 2010 accounting stuff can you help?” Well certainly, if yo call us well before April 01 and depending on various other factors. One being how well are you organized? 2) Have the other tax years been filed and do you have a copy of those tax returns?

If you are well organized and willing to be helpful with the gathering of all of your documents most tax preparers /bookkeepers are more than will to do the best they can in helping you reach your tax deadline.

Accounting / bookkeeping in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

One of the common we’re asked is: “Can you help someone outside of  Wisconsin with our bookkeeping, Accounting and Tax preparation needs? The answer is yes… Truthfully it doesn’t matter what state you are in to have this service performed.

What does matter is if the firm you called has the staff, knowledge, and experience to achieve that customers goals with the bookkeeping and tax preparation needs.

Had a client call with a great question that I hadn’t come upon as yet.

Will Intuits Turbo Tax work with Sage’s Peachtree accounting software system. The easy answer is no. After much research and a few phone learned that there is no way in uploading or transferring data from Peachtree to Turbo Tax.

So what should the client alternately do? Roll the data from Peachtree into in Quickbooks Pro 2011 (or similar version) and then you can roll it into Turbo Tax. Now there is a conversion tool which will help bookkeepers and accountants make the transfer much easier. The second issue you may come across is the if you have special accounts in your chart of accountants that QB may not immediately recognize. Get in touch with the Full Circle staff for more information

For more detailed informaiton visit http://www.wisconsinquickbooks.com/ for more up-to-date information on peachtree integration.

We hope to have some of the hottest topics frequently asked about the Intuit Quickbooks software.

One of the newest and most in demand is the steps needed for lost passwords in Quickbooks. This video explain

what is all needed.

QuickBooks Shortcut Keys

Although I was never a big beliver in these short Cut keystrokes. Once I stated using them I relized that truly are very helpful and you will too. I took one of these per day and used it. Soon enough I realized that I can move around and enter data so much faster. Give it a try. 

Although there is a Mac version, I will speak about the Windows version in general. Quickbooks came out the version  called Simple Start which will give you the basics, to get your business running. Simple start can print checks, log bills, watch your sales history, print invoices and even accept credit cards if you want to.

Quickbooks Pro

This is truly the version that you want. It is a step up from Simple Start. But there are some key features that makes life in bookkeeping and accounting alot more easier. Pro version allows creating purchase orders Estimating, and advanced features like tracking costs for assembled products for manufacturers or retailers etc.

Quickbooks Premier Edition

This version has great business planning tools and comes ready for Accountants, notprofit organizations, retailers and contractors. So this is truly a specialty version. The ability to make a great business plan and perform some forecasting with this version can’t be overstated.

Another bonus, is that it works really good with Intuit Payroll and Credit/Debit card processing.

Small Businesses will like these highlight of Quickbooks:

• Credit Card processing
• Point of sale interface
• Invoice Manager
• Customer Manager
• Remote access
• Online Banking ability
• Billing solutions
• Bill Pay services

Many small businesses just starting out are trying to figure out how to finance there next chapter in there business life. New start-up companies are always thinking of marketing and advertising funds and how to obtain them.

In today’s social media life, that we now have, entrepreneurs to often forget that they have several tools at there finger tips. Sites such as Facebook, Linked-in, Myspace, Youtube etc are all basically free. Most people forget that they can have a personal page and a commercial page. Some family or small businesses have one of each. Nothing wrong with keeping the two sites separate, that’s for sure.

Small Businesses need grants nowadays-Very few if any federal grants are available to individuals, family and small businesses. The federal government does, however, award grants to state and local governments to help them with economic development, and these are the grants you might be able to take advantage of in assisting a small business. With this being said, consultants recommend that they contact there local government first to see whats available.

Some states provide grants for expanding child care centers; creating energy efficient technology; and developing marketing campaigns for tourism. Among the business financing resources listed above, you might find a suitable grant. These grants are not necessarily free money, and usually require the recipient to match funds or combine the grant with other forms of financing such as a loan. As the economic recovery “continues” the Small Business Administration claims that business grants/loans should be come more plentiful.

So do you research carefully and slowly. Be ready for a long wait and tons of paperwork, of course. If you havn’t had experience with grant/loan applications you should probably ask for help and make sure that your accounting software (i.e. Quickbooks) is up to date with accurate data.

As of June 2011 Grants have really dropped off on the Governments web sites. But you should check with your local and especially your State to s