Articles about Quickbooks
Five Ways to Avoid an IRS Audit as a Small Business
Practices and habits that may trigger an IRS audit and how your small business can avoid those triggers.
How to Choose the Right QuickBooks Online Subscription for Your Small Business
Figuring out which Quickbooks subscription is right for you and your business can be tricky. The accounting and bookkeeping platform is a crucial lifeline for small businesses around the world. Making sense of how to use it for your business can be a challenge though. And one of the first things a new QuickBooks user [...]
Paying Yourself as a Small Business Owner
A problem that many small business owners struggle with is a very basic one - how to pay yourself! It might feel weird to pay yourself as the owner of your own business, but you owe yourself a salary or some form of compensation while you’re maintaining and growing your business. Whether you use Intuit [...]
QuickBooks Online Payroll Changes
Changes are coming to QuickBooks Online Payroll effective March 8, 2021. QBO Online Payroll subscribers will be stepped-up and realize enhanced and frequently requested new capabilities aimed at making payroll runs more reliable, easier and quicker than before. And three payroll offerings will be available instead of two. The QBO Payroll offerings are: QB Online [...]
Intuit Launches QuickBooks Commerce for Online Stores
Big news! Intuit has just launched QuickBooks Commerce. This addition to the growing portfolio of Intuit accounting solutions will be welcomed by QuickBooks Online product (vs services) sellers who need inventory management, order processing and accounting automations across multiple sales channels. This includes users of eBay, Amazon, Squarespace, WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Zapier, Etsy, Shipstation and [...]
Preparing QB Desktop files for import into QB Online
As more and more firms make the move from PC and server-based QB Desktop (“QBD”) to cloud-based QuickBooks Online (“QBO”) file size can be a concern, especially for QuickBooks Desktop files containing many years of transactions. However this conversion is a good time to purge your system of old and useless entries (vendors and customers [...]
Payroll Tax Problems and the IRS
Small business owners have so many business tax responsibilities – income taxes (federal and state of course) sales taxes (now hugely more complicated than even a year ago), excise taxes, city and county taxes, franchise taxes, many special taxes, and of course payroll taxes. This is where part of employee pay is withheld and reported [...]
Online Marketplace Facilitators and Sales Taxes
The sales tax environment continues to evolve, mostly to the detriment on small business online sellers. Sales taxes are growing increasingly complex and impose great burdens on just about any business that must comply. The situation is indeed untenable, and a simpler solution is needed. But in the meantime, here is a discussion on the [...]
Sales tax relief: the QB Automated Sales Tax Center
The Supreme Court decision in June 2018 on South Dakota v. Wayfair is changing the business landscape all over the U.S., and while there are many winners and losers, small businesses definitely don’t fall into the winner’s column as they are now responsible for complying with a multitude of new sales and use tax concerns, [...]
Collecting on Invoices in Small Claims Court
Sometimes you will run your normal QuickBooks accounts receivable (AR) reports, see amounts that are drifting further and further into the right Unpaid columns, and realize that the erstwhile customer is just not going to pay – voluntarily. In this case small claims court may be a great alternative. What is Small Claims Court? Small [...]