Your customers are the heartbeat of your business. QuickBooks Online helps you keep them happy. Do you remember how you used to keep track of information about your customers before you started using a computer for your accounting? A file folder containing paper transaction forms and other communications? A card in your Rolodex? A list […]
Working with Employee Records in QuickBooks Online
Payroll requires countless details about each employee. QuickBooks Online will walk you through the process of entering them. If you’ve only been on the receiving end of a paycheck, you may not know just how much prep work went into your neatly-organized paystubs. Those official-looking columns of numbers that described how much you earned and […]
How to File an Amended Tax Return
How to File an Amended Tax Return Oops! Did you determine that you made an error on an income tax return that you already filed? It’s not unusual. That’s why the IRS has a special form that will fix it. Maybe a 1099 that you had forgotten about came in after you’d filed your income […]
Introducing the New QuickBooks Online for PC App
Introducing the New QuickBooks Online for PC App Like QuickBooks Online but miss some of the desktop version’s features? You can have both now. QuickBooks Online has grown tremendously since its introduction more than a decade ago. It’s not quite as mature as the top-of-the-line desktop versions, but it’s not far behind anymore. No matter […]
QuickBooks Online’s Sales Tax Tools: The Basics
Are you paying the correct amount of sales tax to the proper agencies? QuickBooks Online can help. It’s hard to imagine that small businesses used to have to manage sales tax manually. It was quite a time-intensive process, and it was so easy to make mistakes. QuickBooks Online can handle the mechanics for you. Its […]
Should You Claim the Home Office Deduction?
It can reduce your income tax obligation, but be sure you understand the IRS’s rules. One of the many ways the internet has changed business over the last two decades is the increasing numbers of part-time entrepreneurs. Simple do-it-yourself website design tools have made it possible for anyone to create a virtual storefront that looks […]
How to Avoid — and Deal with — Tax Identity Theft
Even if you guard that critical 9-digit number carefully, you can still have a fraudulent tax return filed using it. Your first thoughts when you become the victim of a tax identity thief might go along the lines of: Did I click on a link in an email that I shouldn’t have? Is my virus […]
Managing Users in QuickBooks Online
A multi-user accounting application needs good tools for assigning access permissions. QuickBooks Online has it covered. You trust your employees, or you wouldn’t have hired them. But you also have a grave responsibility to your customers and vendors: to keep their data safe, and to ensure that records and transactions remain accurate and unchanged throughout […]