QuickBooks Training: Mid-Month Bank Reconciliations by Jennifer A. Thieme
In QuickBooks, sometimes the check register can go awry between the monthly bank reconciliations. Here are simple directions to reconcile the check register, even without the regular monthly bank statement: 1. From your web browser, go to your bank's website and print a detailed listing of all... Verify that all entries in QuickBooks match the bank's entries exactly; verify that all transactions from the bank printout have been entered into QuickBooks; verify that all entries that appear on the bank statement AND also appear in QuickBooks have a checkmark next to them; and verify that in...

Online Banking with QuickBooks - Ten Tips for Success by Jennifer A. Thieme
Online banking with QuickBooks is a great way to enter transactions and keep tabs on all activity in bank and credit card accounts. It is especially useful if you use an ATM card or credit card often and don’t want to take the time to manually enter each individual purchase. ... There are two ways QuickBooks downloads transactions: either through a direct connection, or a “web-connect.” A direct connection asks for your password, then downloads transactions directly, without using the QuickBooks internal web browser.

Online Banking with QuickBooks - Can't Delete the QuickStatement? by Jennifer A. Thieme
Are you having trouble deleting the QuickStatement from the Online Banking Center in QuickBooks? This is an issue for some clients that Intuit is not actively resolving. Here are a few tips and suggestions that will hopefully resolve the issue for you. ... For the 2006 version of QuickBooks, from the Help menu, select Update QuickBooks and follow the instructions. ... If none of these methods work, you may either contact Intuit directly, contact your QuickBooks professional who can then contact Intuit on your behalf, or you may try this work-around.

Midsize Business ERP - Great Plains Standard vs. Professional by Andrew Karasev
If you are in the growing mode and reach the point when you need to move away from old accounting application and incorporate something, which could be considered as industry standard ERP, you should know general direction and where to look for additional information. ... Great Plains Professional should be considered as ERP platform in the following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Beverages, Apparels, Conglomerates, Textile, Services, Non-for-profit, Transportation &Logistics, Warehouse management/Shipping & Receiving, Distribution, Wholesale & Retail, Government, Pharmaceutical,...

Yes, There Really is Useful Wedding Planning Software by Richard Keir
Wedding planning isn't an easy task. A wedding is an incredibly complicated undertaking - unless you plan to elope or just go downtown to the justice of the peace. For a relatively large, traditional wedding there are many activities and events that you'll need to track to keep the wedding on... You really don't need anything as complicated as QuickBooks or PeachTree, but you do want to be able to monitor your spending so that you don't end up broke before the ceremony. ... A professional wedding planner may charge as much as 10% of the cost of the wedding.

10 Reasons Why I'm Glad I Switched from PCs to Macs by Mike Wendland
Four years ago, I used to be known as "PC Mike." That's because on TV and in newspapers, I wrote primarily about personal computers running the Windows operating system. Then, prodded by reader e-maii, I decided to try a Macintosh computer for a review. ... Now in full disclosure, I should tell you that, for professional reasons as a technology columnist, I still have to sometimes use PCs. ... So does QuickBooks. ... Same with Excel. ... I use Word all the time and there are no issues with my PC-using pals.

Printing Labels Should Be Easy, But for 20 Years Many Have Persisted With a Cumbersome Method by Sally Green
For more than a decade and a half there has been an alternative to the struggle of printing labels on sheets. What we're saying here is that there are thousands of people, if not millions, who use a whole sheet of labels just to print a label or two. ... The LabelWriter is a small office tool that serves just one very important purpose - printing professional looking labels. ... You get free software that is so fundamental to use, and you can even print out of software like Word, Outlook, ACT!, Goldmine and QuickBooks with just a click or two of your mouse - there is no retyping of addresses.

Business Plan Software Review: Ultimate Business Planner™ by Michael Elia
One of the main reasons business owners and entrepreneurs use business plan software is to simplify building their financial models. Even with an explosion in business plan software packages on the market today, “doing the financial projections” is still often cited as the most difficult part of... There are three methods you can use to enter your monthly income or expense data: manually or cell-by-cell, automatically - using a combination of the worksheet functions to project amounts for you based on your assumptions, or importing/copy paste - take data from your files if you are using...