SubscribeIn 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) [...]
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How to Close the Books in QuickBooks
QuickBooks Is So Difficult! What Can I Do?
You’re new on the job, and that job includes using QuickBooks. You have some bookkeeping experience, but you’re wondering if it’s enough!
There are some things you can do to get up to speed with your new bookkeeping assignment, and none are very expensive:
* Read a book or watch a DVD. There are several books out [...]
Best Books About QuickBooks
You want to keep good books? Then read a good book.
There are good training resources available for beginning and advanced users of QuickBooks. Here are some of the highest rated ones on Amazon:
QuickBooks 2011, the Missing Manual, by Bonnie Biafore. 720 pages. Pogue Press. 4.7/5 Stars on Amazon. Great balance between instructions on specific features [...]
What’s the Job Market Like for People with QuickBooks Skills?
Got QuickBooks skills? There are jobs out there for you.
Our QuickBooks Jobs Forum lists dozens of job openings every month for people with QuickBooks skills. Those listings consist of permanent part-time or full-time jobs requiring a background in QuickBooks. (There are other places to find temp or contract jobs; see below.)
In 2010, the average pay [...]
Printing QuickBooks Checks on Blank Stock
If your company has several bank accounts, you can either stock preprinted checks for each of them, or use blank stock for all of them.
PrintBoss Select is software written especially for QuickBooks users to allow printing of QuickBooks checks on blank stock.
How does it work? It basically takes over the check printing function in QuickBooks. [...]
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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Get a job with your mad QuickBooks skills
Nobody said it was easy making a living in this economy.
The good news is that if you have solid experience with QuickBooks, there are jobs out there for you, if you are looking for one.
The QuickBooks Jobs Forum lists QuickBooks-related jobs that are coming up every day.
Some examples:
Administrative assistant with QuickBooks experience in Brooklyn, NY
QuickBooks [...]