By Elizabeth Davis on September 2, 2010
Reminder, I am available for Open Office Hours on Thursdays from 9 am – 11 am at The Daily Grind (810 North Ave, Norwalk).
Do you have questions such as:
Business Questions:
How do you set up a budget?
How do you use Quickbooks?
How does recent legislation impact me as a business owner?
Individual Questions:
How do I set up a [...]
Posted in Small Business | Tagged Balance Sheet, Budget, Income Statement, Personal Finance, QuickBooks, Small Business, Technology
By Elizabeth Davis on June 24, 2010
Intuit has released Payroll Update 21012, which includes changes to tax tables and forms for several states. Click here to see the contents of this update.
If you are an Iowa Employer this update includes a change to the tax tables for Iowa Unemployment Tax. This is related to the change in account [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged Iowa Workforce, Payroll, QuickBooks, Small Business, Technology
By Elizabeth Davis on April 20, 2010
ALERT!
Another Spam/Phishing or Virus email that appears to be from Intuit about “Intuit Secure Software” is going around.
If you get an email about “Intuit Secure Software” DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS!! Instead forward the email to security@intuit.com and then delete the email without clicking anything.
If you know of anyone else using QuickBooks, please spread [...]
Posted in Small Business, Technology | Tagged QuickBooks
By Elizabeth Davis on January 5, 2010
I’ll be teaching a course again this winter through the Des Moines Public Schools Community Education Program. Here are the details about the course:
Small Business Accounting
Introductory course on accounting for small business owners. Topics covered include: single-sided (checkbook) vs. double-sided (financial statement) accounting; examples of records to keep and for how long; [...]
Posted in Small Business | Tagged Balance Sheet, Budget, Cash Flow Statement, Excel, Income Statement, QuickBooks, Small Business, Technology
By Elizabeth Davis on December 4, 2009
I have been using QuickBooks 2010 now for a while and have found 5 new features that I really like. Some of them are simply time savers within the QuickBooks program. Some of them though are tools that can greatly improve my business processes (& my client’s business processes)!
1. Company Snapshot
This feature was [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Excel, Income Statement, QuickBooks, Small Business, Technology
By Elizabeth Davis on November 20, 2009
This Week in News & Information:
Millions may have to repay part of Making Work Pay tax credit Some people may have had too little withheld this year as a result of the tax credit.
Intuit Offers to Convert Microsoft Accounting Clients This is an option for those of you using Microsoft Accounting, which is [...]
Posted in News You Can Use | Tagged IRS, QuickBooks, Small Business, Technology
By Elizabeth Davis on October 2, 2009
I’m trying out a new feature on the Davis CPA Solutions Blog, a news you can use round-up. Each week I’ll post a list of interesting news stories and informational blog posts found on the web that week.
So here goes…this week (October 2, 2009) in news & information:
Small Business Strategies: How to keep [...]
Posted in News You Can Use | Tagged QuickBooks, Small Business
By Elizabeth Davis on August 23, 2009
Time is Money! I have found that it is a HUGE time saver to use keyboard shortcuts in several computer programs including QuickBooks. I try to avoid using the mouse as much as possible. If I was a comedian I would insert a funny joke here with a play on the word [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged QuickBooks, Small Business