Month: May, 2010

Speed Limit: 11 Miles Per Hour

I was driving through the grounds of a conference center last week and saw a roadsign: Speed Limit – 11 Miles Per Hour.
I noticed the sign, and so did one of my kids. “Dad, why is the speed limit 11 miles per hour? That’s kinda weird.”
I told her that it was kinda weird, and that [...]

How to Make a Great Password

You’ve been told a LOT of times that the world is a dangerous place, and that you should only use ’strong’ passwords for your accounting software, your email and social accounts, your online financial accounts…really all your accounts and apps that are supposed to be secure.
So you know what you OUGHT to do, but how [...]

QuickBooks 2010 R7 Update Fixes Problems

The R7 update for QuickBooks 2010 fixes password problems in QuickBooks Merchant Services and corrects a bug in Payroll that can result in crashes when paychecks are edited or printed.
Details and the download link are available here.
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Has QuickBooks 2010 Improved Centuries-Old Business Practices?

Some business office procedures remain the same as they have for centuries. Has QuickBooks 2010 transformed some of them?

Downgrading Enterprise

What do these classic (’70s!) TV commercials have in common? And what do they have to do with QuickBooks?

Easy! It’s best when the customer decides what they want — and get it.
Sometimes folks using Enterprise decide that it’s a little more than they need.
No problem. We can take your Enterprise file and downgrade it to [...]

How to Use Google to Solve QuickBooks Problems

Want some good DIY problem-solving for QuickBooks? Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and with their new interface there are several new ways to slice and dice the web’s information about QuickBooks.
Let’s say you are interested in exploring what options there are for check printing in QuickBooks:

The list on the left shows how [...]

Laura Dion, QuickBooks Forums Moderator

Laura Dion, an advanced certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor in Providence, RI has become a moderator on the QuickBooks Forums. We are lucky to have her! She has a Five Star ProAdvisor Rating as given by her customers.
Thank you, Laura, for contributing to the forums!
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R11 Release Fixes QuickBooks 2009 Problems

The R11 release to QuickBooks 2009 Pro, Premier, and Enterprise addresses the troublesome PDF printing problem under Windows 64 bit versions, among other things.
List of fixes for R11 and previous releases on the Intuit KnowledgeBase.
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Neglecting Your IT Can Cost You

I guest blogged for Smart Business, Stupid Business about a customer that had serious IT instabilities, but refused to address them. We had to repair their data a dozen times, but they never learned.
Read the story here.
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