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| Quickbooks Invoicing | 11/18/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: We are a service oriented business but also sell a fair amount of products in our installations. We ...
A: You can set up inventory to point to another WIP (work in process (other asset type account) instead ...
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| Sales Tax discount | 11/17/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I use Quickbooks Pro for Mac 2007. Every month when I go to pay sales tax, if I file early I get a ...
A: What you will need to do is created a journal entry to reflect the discount (Newer versions of QB ...
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| Credit Cards | 11/16/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Karen- I am sure this is a very simple process! Ican't remember how to run a list of my customers ...
A: My apologies for taking so long to answer, I never received the e-mail notice that you'd ask a ...
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| Editing Deposits | 11/15/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Quickbooks Pro 2007 I'm trying to record a deposit that has been transferred to my bank account from ...
A: Lets assume the service charge for a $39.99 transaction is %1.17 so you only deposit $38.82 ...
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| New Chart of Accounts | 11/13/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Are there concerns with re-doing the chart of accounts? I gather this would include dreating a whole ...
A: Changing your chart of accounts may have major ramification if you were to change the account types. ...
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| HOA Management | 11/13/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: We are a small management company managing 10-15 HOA's. Is QuickBooks going to work for us?
A: Yes, QuickBooks works nicely for home owner associations. You can set up multiple company files - ...
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| Error recording deposits | 11/12/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Quickboks Pro 2007, I made a deposit from customers A and B but, customer B was deposited in error. ...
A: If you have not yet performed the bank reconciliation that includes that deposit, go ahead and 1. ...
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| Owner's Equity | 11/12/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: If I want to enter/pay business bills that were paid out of our personal account how would I do ...
A: If this is going to be an ongoing situation, I would enter set up a credit card account called ...
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| qb cleared balance issue ref. previous post | 11/11/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Great site! I had the same issue (pc) and selected "mark all". The cleared balance then matched ...
A: To answer your question, there is no way to keypunch change the beginning balance QB gets the ...
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| Quicken Unit Sales Reports | 11/7/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: I use Quicken Home & Business for my online comic book business. I have about a dozen comics that I ...
A: I think I answered this question this morning, but I received it again this evening. So forgive me ...
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| Quicken Unit Sales Reports | 11/6/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: I use Quicken Home & Business for my online comic book business. I have about a dozen comics that I ...
A: In QuickBooks you can see one report (PC verssion - Im not sure the Mac has these features) Qty, ...
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| Quicken Unit Sales Reports | 11/4/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: I use Quicken Home & Business for my online comic book business. I have about a dozen comics that I ...
A: Yes, QuickBooks Pro will track profitability by item, the report is called Item profitability. In ...
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| Quicken Unit Sales Reports | 11/3/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: I use Quicken Home & Business for my online comic book business. I have about a dozen comics that I ...
A: QuickBooks includes a sales report, Sales by item summary which displays total Quantity and total ...
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| Paypal setup and Customer Setup | 11/2/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Re: QuickBooks SimpleStart Software I am not an accountant, however I do have some book-keeping ...
A: Here are your questions and the answers: 1. Would "Members" be a component of our "Customer List" ...
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| Paypal setup and Customer Setup | 10/30/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Re: QuickBooks SimpleStart Software I am not an accountant, however I do have some book-keeping ...
A: To answer your question as to whether Simple start will handle the job. Yes it is quite adequate ...
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| Quickbooks and receipts | 10/30/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: gosh this site and your answers have been so helpful to me and all of my quickbook woes, thank-you ...
A: You can use the generic vendor "gas" for amounts paid out from petty cash, checking or the credit ...
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| Paypal setup and Customer Setup | 10/29/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Re: QuickBooks SimpleStart Software I am not an accountant, however I do have some book-keeping ...
A: Let me be sure that I have the gist of your business correct. You customer will pay as they go for ...
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| Customer:Job Terms | 10/28/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Is there anyway I can change the terms for a customer job. There is no terms field in the additional ...
A: The main Customer (parent) holds the terms for all the jobs (children) names. Right click on the ...
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| Vendor summary | 10/27/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I would like to print a summary of all of the checks written to a specific vendor during a specific ...
A: You can make a customized report for this. Click on reports (at the top of the QuickBooks window) ...
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| Cleared deposit became uncleared after reconciliation | 10/23/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I cleared a deposit in the August reconciliation. (This was confirmed in the Reconciliation Report ...
A: There is a simple way to reconcile this. Go back to the last bank statement that you reconciled (I'm ...
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| Quick Books - Opening balances | 10/23/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Please help me to key-in my opening balances on the Quick books? i'm using Quick Books Pro 2006. ...
A: Its best and easiest to start as of the first day of your taxable year. Setting up in mid-year will ...
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| Claiming Percentage of Auto Expenses | 10/21/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Although I'm using Sage Simply Accounting Pro 2009, I imagine the answer is the same regardless of ...
A: I did answer this as soon as I received the followup but website did not save it. You may be ...
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| Claiming Percentage of Auto Expenses | 10/20/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Although I'm using Sage Simply Accounting Pro 2009, I imagine the answer is the same regardless of ...
A: If you are reconciling your bank statements & credit card statement accounts in Simply Accounting, ...
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| Pass Through Accounts | 10/19/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Our church has special seminars for which we have pass through accounts. Money is donated toward the ...
A: A very easy way to set this up would be to add an account call special seminar liability (It would ...
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| WA State B & O Tax Calulation | 10/19/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: We are in 2008 subject and since we are in the service industry, we must pay sales tax monthly and ...
A: You will need to set up a separate sales tax item for the State B %26 O tax. You will then need to ...
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| Paycheck Distribution | 10/17/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I would like to setup a percentage based distribution as the numbers I have coming in constantly ...
A: If by incoming pay you mean gross sales then the distribution would be done at a separate time. THe ...
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| Paycheck Distribution | 10/16/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I would like to setup a percentage based distribution as the numbers I have coming in constantly ...
A: Are you using Quicken or QuickBooks? I will not be able to help you if you are using Quicken. I am ...
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| 1. i import American Express transactions into quickbooks | 10/16/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: 1. i import American Express transactions into quickbooks 2. some transactions are relevant to my ...
A: That would depend if you are paying American Express with 1 check or with 2 checks (one from the ...
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| import amx transactions | 10/16/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: 1. i import American Express transactions into quickbooks 2. some transactions are relevant to my ...
A: You have a few ways that you can handle this 1. Do not delete any of the charges. Set up an equity ...
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| Paycheck Distribution | 10/16/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I would like to setup a percentage based distribution as the numbers I have coming in constantly ...
A: I'm not quite sure what your are asking me. When you say the numbers are constantly changing do you ...
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| Deleting items from inventory | 10/13/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: We are trying to clean up our inventory and inventory list. My problem is that we have a lot of ...
A: That is a big "NO" on deleting. Actually QuickBooks will not allow you to delete it. Your cost of ...
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| Condo Management | 10/13/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: Our condo HOA is planning to "self manage" to save money. We have 17 units and pay about 12 service ...
A: You should purchase QuickBooks Pro, not Quicken for the purpose of financial reporting and ...
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| Quickbooks Register Problem | 10/13/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I have several checking acounts setup in Quickbooks Pro 2008. When I try to open up the check ...
A: There are two ways of opening up a register (either from the chart of accounts or the home page). To ...
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| QB ID- workforce Dev. fund catch up | 10/12/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: At the beginning of the year I entered our Idaho workforce development fund rate correctly as 0.031 ...
A: Since the employee paid tax, I still recommend making a Payroll liability adjustment for each ...
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| Pro 2010 | 10/10/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: Can a remote user download A/P account info from an excel spreadsheet directly into an account?My ...
A: You can import transactions using an IIF file. QuickBooks offers a Import kit at: ...
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| QB ID- workforce Dev. fund catch up | 10/9/2009 | Linda Saltz, CPA, QBalance.com |
Q: At the beginning of the year I entered our Idaho workforce development fund rate correctly as 0.031 ...
A: If you do not have alot of employees, I suggest making the correction using a payroll liability ...
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| quickbooks | 10/8/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: 2 things. We have a winery with a club that receives quarterly shipments. When we add a new ...
A: If you want to sort your customers by type, you will need to add that column to your view in the ...
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| Memorized Transaction List in QuickBooks | 10/5/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I have about 2,400 transactions that I need to change every year. Is there a way to do it by group ...
A: I take it that you are using statement charges as billing invoices. There is a possiblity of using ...
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| How can I keep my receipts after I have enter them on Quickbooks 2008 | 10/4/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: I being working with Quickbooks 2008 and I love it. Now I have a big question for you. How can I ...
A: There are a numerous ways to organize receipts. 1. You can keep each vendors receipts in their own ...
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| QB Pro 08 Reports ?? | 10/1/2009 | Karin Hostetler |
Q: We run a budget in excel and want to run a report from QB that only tracks the money in and out in ...
A: nice name :) ) Just a caveat on the profit and loss report, it won't show anything that was posted ...
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