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Lance B Wilkins
Small business accounting at M Green and Company LLP
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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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Feb 5, 20202 min read
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QuickBooks Own Book of Lists
An integral part of tracking hundreds of transactions within a computer program like QuickBooks, is lists. Lists of customers, of...
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Jan 23, 20203 min read
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Doing 1099s or W2s in QuickBooks?
Some helpful links: W2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1qv7TMA198 https://www.qbassist.com/post/2019/01/02/what-w2s-aren-t-ready-yet...
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Jan 7, 20201 min read
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My Company
Basic QuickBooks, From Step One Let’s take a few weeks, and examine using QuickBooks much as we would in a class. With a desire to learn...
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Dec 12, 20193 min read
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Slice and Dice Data Like a QuickBooks Pro
We’ve done several posts this year on ways you can view your QuickBooks transactions in smaller segments. The benefit of that, is to gain...
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Oct 22, 20191 min read
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Top Icon Bar? Left Icon Bar?
Those of us who have used QuickBooks for a couple decades are familiar with seeing the Account Balances list in this way; on the right...
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Oct 2, 20192 min read
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Searching for Profits - Divisions and Locations
In the search to understand our business, we’re looking for ways to whittle down the mass of transactions in QuickBooks to smaller chunks...
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Sep 19, 20192 min read
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Customers Not Paying Fast Enough?
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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Jul 31, 20192 min read
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What’s Billable? And What’s 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 14, 20192 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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May 30, 20192 min read
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It’s Time for a New QuickBooks Company File
In our last post we talked about shrinking your QuickBooks company file by using the Condense Data menu item. Today we’ll look at...
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May 17, 20193 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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May 3, 20193 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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Mar 23, 20192 min read
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Navigating the Warning When Restoring QuickBooks
“Are you sure you want to do this? Type Yes in the box if you do.” That message is enough to scare anyone from completing the operation...
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Mar 9, 20192 min read
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QuickBooks Invoices - Paper or Digital?
Almost anyone who creates invoices in QuickBooks knows how to print them. We’ve been doing it for years and the commands to print are...
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Feb 23, 20192 min read
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Check or Bill? Which Should it Be?
You need to record the expenses of your organization. You know in QuickBooks there are options. You can choose to enter a check, or you...
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Feb 8, 20192 min read
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The Case for QuickBooks Online
As online applications continue to grow in popularity, we need to ask ourselves from time to time, is it time for me to switch? The...
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Jan 28, 20192 min read
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We’ve Grown! Do I Need Another QuickBooks?
So, your business or organization is growing? You need to track more than one department or location or grant? Do you need another...
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Jan 15, 20193 min read
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What? W2s Aren’t Ready Yet?
For QuickBooks users, the January task of creating W2s has only gotten easier over time. Assuming we haven’t been making errors in our...
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Jan 2, 20193 min read
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Want QuickBooks to Create Your 1099s?
It’s coming. January. The start of a new year and the beginning of the filing of numerous tax forms. W2s and 1099s are usually the first...
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Dec 14, 20182 min read
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