Nancy Smyth | December 31, 2008
Well, I’ve finally found some quite time to go take my ProAdvisor Certification “test” – I’ve been a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor since 2000, when the program first was established by Intuit.
I’ve taken this test 8 years in a row now, and I swear it’s changed little – oh sure, they do put in a few [...]
Nancy Smyth | December 30, 2008
Q: Self-employeds can use federal per diem rates only for {lodging/meals}
A: meals
Nancy Smyth | December 23, 2008
Hopefully this will brighten your day!
Schizophrenia – Do you hear what I hear?
Multiple Personality Disorder – We Three Queens Disoriented Are
Dementia – I think I’ll be home for Christmas
Narcissistic – Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
Manic – Deck the halls and walls and house and lawn and streets and stores and office and town [...]
Nancy Smyth | December 22, 2008
As our website evolves and our customer and newsletter subscriber base grows, we wonder what else our website needs.
We’ve noticed that an increasing number of “QuickBooks consultants” {ProAdvisors, CPA’s, Intuit Solution Providers, etc} have been signing up for our newsletter; and that has got me to “thinking” about a “Consultant’s Corner” section of the Support [...]
Nancy Smyth | December 22, 2008
12/22/08. This was the view from my office window today. With 15″ of fresh snow, winter has officially arrived!
Nancy Smyth | December 19, 2008
Building and then maintaining a website can be (and sometimes is) a full time job!
Back in January of 2001, when we first launched an “official” website, it was like 5 pages as we just had the certified payroll add-on {OH, THOSE were the days!}.
Back then, I knew nothing about website design or the“dreaded HTML” that [...]
Nancy Smyth | December 19, 2008
After getting payroll updates, when attempting to access federal forms, OR during a payroll update you may be the following error:
QuickBooks is having trouble installing payroll tax table update [ps077, ps034, or ps032].
Follow these instructions to resolve your problem.
Nancy Smyth | December 16, 2008
I seem to constantly be working on two computers. I usually work on my laptop in the wee hours of the morning at the comfort of my dining room table and then I come to the office to really start my day and work on the “big computer”.
The problem always had been on how [...]
Nancy Smyth | December 16, 2008
Visit the QuickBooks Payroll Year-End Center for help with the following:
Year-End Basics – how to close out your books and your payroll
How to make sure that you have the latest QuickBooks updates AND Payroll updates
Payroll news, alerts, and tax information
I haven’t had a chance to look through everything that is there, but what I have [...]
Nancy Smyth | December 12, 2008
but I’m charging my client
Ok, this one just totally drives me “INSANE”!
We come into contact with some ProAdvisors and the like that have never dealt with a commercial construction client and know absolutely nothing about certified payroll, aia billing, or using QuickBooks in the commercial construction industry.
Ok, so I know that there isn’t much in [...]