SubscribeWhen 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 [...]
Can I Trust a Portable Copy of my Data? It’s so Small!
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 [...]
Bend, Don’t Break
A windstorm came through central Colorado last month. The wind meter at the airport clocked gusts of up to 79MPH, breaking the all time record.
In my neighborhood, I counted 8 broken-off ponderosa pines as I drove down the main road the next day.
There was one tree with a five foot diameter trunk, broken completely off. [...]
Two QuickBooks Users Deal with Their Very Large Files
If you run QuickBooks week after week, year after year, your QBW data file gets pretty big. (Press the F2 key in QuickBooks with your company open to see how big your file is.)
What if it gets so big that performance starts to suffer? Or you start to experience errors or intermittent problems in the [...]
What Are the Most Important Questions Your QuickBooks Data Can Answer?
QuickBooks can be more than just a basic bookkeeping program for you. It can help you address some of the biggest challenges and opportunities your business faces. Here are some of the most important questions QuickBooks can help you answer:
1. Am I making money, or losing money? Assuming that you enter information into QuickBooks correctly, [...]
The User Who Sailed Around the QuickBooks Sunset (Policy)
Sunsets are wonderful, beautiful things, unless you’re talking about a software sunset — a planned discontinuance of support for an older version of your software. That can be frustrating in certain situations. Here’s a story of a QuickBooks user who found a way around that.
But first, a bit of background. As of now, QuickBooks Windows [...]
Where in the World Are QuickBooks Users?
My town has an ice cream place with a dot board in it. You know, a map of the world, and the customers get a stick-em colored dot and put it on the map if their part of the world isn’t already represented. By the end of the summer, their world map has dots all [...]
Coldplay and QuickBooks
I heard an interview on XM Radio this week with Chris Martin and his cohorts in Coldplay.
Chris was talking about the challenge of creating really great music. He told the interviewer that his songwriting was influenced by the Beatles, Bob Marley, Nirvana. Their music, he said, was quite simple to play on the guitar — [...]