Hired Your First Employee? Your Tax Obligations
It’s a major milestone for you, but it comes with a lot of paperwork that must be done correctly. Bringing a new employee into your business is reason to...
Working with Checks in QuickBooks
Online banking may get all the headlines, but a lot of small businesses still prefer paper checks. QuickBooks can accommodate them. “I don’t write checks anymore,” you hear a...
Are You Protecting Yourself from Tax Identity Theft?
The IRS has thwarted some identity theft attempts, but thieves are still stealing billions of dollars every year from taxpayers. Another annual income tax deadline has come and...
How to Keep Your QuickBooks Data Safe
You work hard to make sure your QuickBooks data is accurate. Make sure it’s safe, too. Your QuickBooks company file contains some of the most sensitive information on your...
Receiving Customer Payments: Your Options
It’s one of your more pleasant tasks as a QuickBooks user: receiving payments from customers. Here’s how it works. QuickBooks was designed to make your daily accounting tasks easier,...
Do You Need to Worry About Being Audited?
The question has probably crossed your mind this tax season. What’s the reality? Unless you filed an extension, it’s likely that your annual tax preparation marathon is over. Whether...
Paying Estimated Taxes? When You Should
It’s not just the self-employed who must submit estimated taxes. IRS obligations are pay-as-you-go. Much as we may grumble about them, estimated taxes and payroll withholding are good things....
Are You Memorizing Transactions? Should You Be?
You know that QuickBooks saves a lot of time. But have you explored how it does so by memorizing transactions? Your accounting work involves a lot of repetition. You...
When a Hobby Becomes a Business
A few dollars here, a few dollars there. What do you do when the money from a hobby starts to add up? Maybe you didn’t consider it a real...
Setting Up Users in QuickBooks
If you plan to have multiple employees using QuickBooks, you can limit their access to specific areas. Controlling access to your QuickBooks company file is easy when you’re a...