Month: January, 2012

Can I Trust a Portable Copy of my Data? It’s so Small!

When we repair QuickBooks damaged files, or supercondense them, we usually ask that people transmit them to us in the form of a portable copy.
Why? Because it’s by far the smallest kind of backup of your data that you can make. QuickBooks might take a 1GB Enterprise QBW file (native format company data file) and [...]

How to Close the Books in QuickBooks

In traditional accounting (and traditional accounting software) you ‘close the books’ at the end of a year. How do you do that in QuickBooks? Short answer: You don’t.
Right or wrong, QuickBooks keeps your accounting data around more or less permanently. You can run the QuickBooks archive/condense/clean up command (the naming of it differs across versions) [...]

QuickBooks Comes in Lots of Flavors

QuickBooks comes in lots of flavors. That’s a good thing.
I remember as a kid growing up in Houston going to the Baskin Robbins store on Memorial Drive. 31 flavors! Mint Chocolate Chip or Rocky Road…hmmmm…
QuickBooks users make choices too.
The hot choice these days, at least from Intuit’s point of view, is QuickBooks Online. I just [...]

Our Most Popular QuickBooks Articles of 2011

What were QuickBooks users reading about in 2011? Here are the articles on our website that had the most reads during the year. Maybe what you learn in one of them will make your New Year just a little better.
1. 13 Steps to Implementing Job Costing in QuickBooks for Contractors
Job costing is an important function [...]