To thrive in your role as the most trusted advisor as an accounting professional, you must cement your relationship as a partner for success with each client. It’s not enough to provide compliance services and reactive services for clients as...
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It’s Here! QuickBooks Online Bitcoin Invoice Payments
If you’ve made the move to QuickBooks Online for your accounting, then you may be ready to accept virtual currency as payment for your invoices as well. QuickBooks Online users can enable a hidden feature that adds a Pay with Bitcoin option...
Managing Passwords
Fully 76% of reported data breaches exploit weak or stolen credentials, according to Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report. The study analyzed more than 47,000 security incidents. Weak passwords accounted for 48% of the breaches. It is...
Strategy, Tactics and Picking the Right Accounting Product Solution
What accounting product solution makes the most sense for your business to support? Most of you have built your business by supporting QuickBooks desktop and the supporting add-ons that make the product stronger. Some of you have chosen QuickBooks...
Understand QuickBooks FIFO Costing Before Making the Switch
About a year ago I had an Enterprise client come to me stating that her QuickBooks file ”had to be corrupt.” The information she was pulling up wasn’t correct, in her mind, and she was asking if there was anything I could do to help save her...
Bitcoin 101: Bitcoin for Small Business Pt 2 – Getting a Wallet
In my first Bitcoin for Small Business article, I showed you how to acquire some bitcoins using an exchange. I also demonstrated how to transact a bit more safely online by using two-factor authentication. In this article I’ll show you how to...
Bitcoin 101: Bitcoin for Small Business Pt 1 – Getting Bitcoin
Are you wondering what the deal with Bitcoin is, whether or not you should use it in your small business, and how you would start doing so? Learning about Bitcoin can get overwhelming fast, so I’ve created this multi-part Bitcoin for Small...
QuickBooks 2015 Enterprise Inventory Enhancements
Intuit continues to expand the special features that make Enterprise more powerful than the Pro and Premier products. QuickBooks 2015 Enterprise adds a number of very interesting features that can apply to any kind of business. Some are new...
QuickBooks for Law Firms: General Retainers
Funds received by law firms from clients fall into three categories: Payment of fees and costs Trust accounts/Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTAs) Prepayments and overpayments In this article we will discuss prepayments and overpayments and...
Business Analytics with Finagraph
Business analytics for small businesses is the great frontier these days. It’s an area where most SMB’s just haven’t taken the time to explore, it’s a tool that accounting professionals should implement in their quest to become a trusted...
Auditing QuickBooks Enhanced Inventory Receiving
Intuit introduced the Enhanced Inventory Receiving feature in QuickBooks Enterprise 2012 to address some problems with Item Receipt transactions. In this article, I’ll talk about how to check for problems in the Inventory Offset Account that this...
FreshBooks Accounting Software Video Review
As a part of The Sleeter Group’s ongoing research and in connection with our just-released ebook – Online Accounting Software: Finding the Right Match – I’ll review FreshBooks Cloud Accounting software via video. Complete details about...
Xero and Square Register
Square offers an interesting point of sale (POS) system for the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices called Square Register that integrates with Xero and other accounting products. Let’s take a quick look at how Xero and Square Register work...
QuickBooks Online and Square Register
Square offers an interesting point of sale (POS) system for the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices called Square Register that integrates with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop. I talked about Square Register in a prior article, now let’s...