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Lance B Wilkins
Small business accounting at M Green and Company LLP
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Is It Billable? Or Not?
A common QuickBooks question is, what’s that column on checks and bills that says Billable? QuickBooks users unfamiliar with it either...
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Jun 11, 20242 min read
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Sales Tax in QuickBooks
Part 1 – Setup The sales tax feature in QuickBooks desktop uses several steps for setup. It also requires knowledge of multiple...
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Dec 6, 20234 min read
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Tips for QuickBooks Bank Reconciliation
Today’s post discusses several tips to make reconciling the bank account in QuickBooks easier. First, navigate to the bank reconciliation...
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Nov 15, 20232 min read
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Accruing Sick and Vacation Time
Recently, more questions have been arising about this feature in QuickBooks. We examined this a few years ago when California instituted...
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Oct 31, 20232 min read
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How to Manage Duplicate Names in QuickBooks
It happens. Baker, Chris has been a customer for a long time. But so has Christine Baker. And they’re the same person. If you have used...
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Sep 19, 20232 min read
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Automated Customer Statements
In QuickBooks, it’s possible to automate the process of sending customer statements. We’ve written about customer statements before....
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Aug 23, 20232 min read
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Purchasing With Credit Cards in QuickBooks
This QuickBooks capability is used by some but ignored by many others. Some are not sure how to use it. Others fear using it will be too...
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Aug 9, 20232 min read
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Reimbursing Employees for Mileage
What could go wrong? She added mileage reimbursement to her employee’s paycheck. No need to write an extra check. Why was it costing her...
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Jul 24, 20232 min read
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Create Customized Receipts for Customer Payments
This feature was new with QuickBooks 2021. It allows the QuickBooks user to create a customized form to print a receipt for customers...
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Jun 27, 20232 min read
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Is Your QuickBooks File Slow?
Let’s look at what to do when saving a transaction, or creating a report seems to take minutes instead of seconds. Pressing the key...
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Jan 17, 20233 min read
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Voiding Bill Payment Checks and Paychecks in QuickBooks
Voiding a bill payment check does not reduce any expense in QuickBooks. Payments to vendors are being reduced. If a bill payment check is...
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Dec 20, 20222 min read
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How to Correctly Void a Check in QuickBooks
Hint: It’s not on the Edit menu This is an area of QuickBooks that seems to generate more mistakes than almost any other. QuickBooks...
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Nov 14, 20222 min read
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Dealing With Delinquent Customers
Statements and finance charges can help small businesses receive more timely payments from their customers. There is a little setup in...
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Nov 1, 20222 min read
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How to Manage Duplicate Names in QuickBooks
t happens. Baker, Chris has been a customer for a long time. But so has Christine Baker. And they’re the same person. If you have used...
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Oct 11, 20222 min read
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Working With Vendor Credits in QuickBooks
Creating a vendor credit is a simple transaction. Start by using the Enter Bills command, then mark the bill form as a credit. It’s an...
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Sep 12, 20222 min read
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The Customer’s Check Bounced, Now What?
There is a feature, introduced in QuickBooks 2014, that will make the entries for a customer’s bounced check in QuickBooks. It uses the...
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Aug 29, 20222 min read
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Processing Customer Payments in QuickBooks
The process of receiving customer payments and recording bank deposits in QuickBooks may seem pretty straightforward, but there are a few...
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Aug 1, 20223 min read
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Where Was the Budget on That Project?
Estimates in QuickBooks do far more than just tell a customer how much a certain repair job will cost. They create project budgets....
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Jun 22, 20222 min read
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How To Find Any Accounting Document... Fast
Even if we have a great filing system, things still get lost. When it comes to accounting documents though, we have a filing system right...
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Dec 7, 20212 min read
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Customizing QuickBooks with Custom Fields for Items
We posted before about custom fields in QuickBooks and using those with the names list. Well, custom fields are also available for items...
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Aug 31, 20212 min read
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