We all know that certain kinds of assumptions are dangerous, whether in life, relationships, or business. Here are three assumptions that it would risky to make about QuickBooks:
1. Assuming QuickBooks is easy and you can do it all yourself.
A lot of people think that because you can buy a copy of QuickBooks Pro 2012 [...]
QuickBooks 2012 editions just went on sale to the public. While the list of new features is perhaps not as extensive as in the 2010 and 2011 upgrades, there are still some things that might be quite helpful to you, depending on how you use QuickBooks:
* Better interfacing with Excel. If you export a report [...]
Most adventures are meant to be shared.
Think: The Three Musketeers. Han Solo and Chewbacca. Holmes and Watson.
It’s just more fun to have an adventure buddy.
In life, my family members are often my adventure buddies. This usually (but not always) works out well, and makes for great family memories. Here is my daughter and my pooch, [...]
Getting ready to install a newer version of QuickBooks? Take a few minutes to prepare and you might save yourself some grief.
* Pick a good time. The installation will take a little bit of time, as well the data conversion when you first open your company file under the new version. Don’t do this right [...]
Since we specialize in accounting database consulting, we’ve seen tens of thousands of data problem cases over the years. You can boil them down to three categories:
1. Lurking data problems. In these situations, everything looks OK to the user in their daily use of QuickBooks. They can enter bills, run reports, do payroll, and backup [...]
Google Analytics is a great (and free) tool available to anyone who has a Google account. It can help your marketing efforts a lot.
“To succeed in business, know what your customers want, and give it to them”. Google Analytics can help you know what your customers want (and the rest is up to you!)
Here are [...]
“Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Your service saved me money and so much time.
We’re a very small business that was sold Enterprise by an unscrupulous bookkeeping firm, and the timing couldn’t have been worse when QuickBooks informed me that I needed to upgrade my Enterprise to continue to receive payroll updates.
I didn’t [...]
I bought this printer about a month ago for home office use, and it works so well I had to write about it. This is the first non-HP printer I’ve had in memory, and I love it.
Like most of the all-in-one genre of printers, this one does these four things:
* print
* copy
* fax
* scan
Here are [...]
Ever wondered what the browser landscape is like in the QuickBooks world?
Here is the breakdown for the last 50,000 unique visitors of this blog (presumably QuickBooks users!)
* Internet Explorer: 48.80%
* Firefox: 27.63%
* Chrome: 14.84%
* Safari: 6.86%
* Other: ~1%
This matches up pretty well with the browser use pattern seen in our QuickBooks Forums too. The incidence [...]
I’m talking to people every day who are concerned about the size of their QuickBooks company data file. (Press F2 in QuickBooks to see how big your file is).
Some people are concerned because their file is bigger than they expect, or bigger than any other data file they work with, and that makes them nervous [...]
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