Upgrading company file to QuickBooks 2009/10

Last week was a busy week for me. I was having two full training classes and doing few data files migration for QuickBooks. Since the launch of QuickBooks 2009/10, I did many company files migration. To migrate from previous version to QuickBooks 2009/10 was not an easy task. There were some patterns developed in the […]

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How am I going to capture those bits and pieces of claims into QuickBooks?

In my previous blog, I did mention that bosses usually had lots of bits and pieces of claims. How are you going to capture these claims into QuickBooks? I preferred to create the Amount Due account as a Credit Card type of account. This method is easier because I don’t need to create any General […]

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My business just started, should I use accounting software?

I did lots of implementation and demonstration for QuickBooks. Some of them were newly set up company. The problem with the newly setup company was the bosses had lots of bits and pieces of “claims”. Usually, these expenditures that they paid on behalf of the company were intended to claim it back at the later stage. For those […]

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Multiple SHIP TO addresses

Some time back, during my QuickBooks demo, I had a prospect asking me whether QuickBooks could handle multiple “Ship To” addresses. At that time, QuickBooks 2007/08 (Asia) only able to record one single “Ship To” address. For those who required multiple “Ship To” addresses had to manually edit the “Ship To” address field during invoicing. […]

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QuickBooks : Pending invoice

Received a support email, user wrote: “I created an invoice and I don’t know what did I pressed that made the “PENDING (non-posting)” word appeared on the invoice. Besides, I found out that this “Pending” invoice was not in my Sales Report or Accounts Receivable Report.” How you created a pending invoice? While you were […]

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QuickBooks: Opening Bal Equity Account

Last week, I did a QuickBooks implementation for one of my client. I discovered that they had an amount in the Opening Bal Equity account. According to the user, this amount was there since she took over the account two months ago. We traced back the amount and discovered that this amount was in the […]

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