The most obvious benefit is that QuickBooks Online (QBO) is accessed online, from anywhere you can log in – on the road, from your office, home or wherever. And, so can your employees or accountant.
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Changing leadership styles is not an overnight process. It takes time. Here are six ideas to help implement, inspire and engage leadership style.
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When you migrated from Premier to QBO, some of the orders were written with sales tax calculations in Premier and some with the automated sales tax in QBO. This results in multiple lines of sales taxes data.
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If you aren’t familiar with the Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2024, S. 3815, you aren’t alone. It’s been in the legislative pipeline for some time, but surprisingly few people know about it. This legislation, which would change the rules for delivery of investor documents and undermine the print resale income for many print distributors, has already passed the House of Representatives and is moving on to the Senate. This legislation bad for print resellers, and urgent action is needed. The current default for investor documents is paper delivery…
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If you are like most people, I imagine you think you are coachable. But are you really? Here are 3 questions to help you find out for yourself: There are only a few reasons that the average distributor in our industry has sales well under $500,000 per year. In my opinion, having spoken with hundreds of thousands of distributor owners and sales reps, most people are underperformers because they are not coachable. When people start out telling me that they’ve been in the business XX number of years, I know…
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Ask the Accountant… Question: I have never used QuickBooks before. Which one should I buy: Desktop or Online? Answer: I have been a fan of QuickBooks Desktop (the regular one) for distributors, but over the last several years, Intuit (owner of QB) has been strongly pushing QuickBooks Online (QBO). It has become apparent that QBO is the future of QuickBooks. For this reason, I recommend that any distributor who is new to QuickBooks go with QBO. I don’t want to see anyone go into Desktop and then have to switch…
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Question: I am considering switching to QuickBooks Online. I charge sales tax in several states. Can QB do that?
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When was the last time you turned off all the busyness in your life for a day or at least several hours, read some great inspirational and motivational books, and then restarted your life with the new upgraded you?
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It’s important to mix in stickier products like durable labels. Account relationships based on these products are much more difficult to dislodge.
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QuickBooks is getting serious about expired software and they are trying very hard to move everyone to a subscription product.
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