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Comment on Paycheck/Payroll Frequencies by State by Certified Payroll Reports & Bi-Weekly Paychecks | QuickBooks for Contractors blog

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:06:28 +0000

[...] frequencies are for the state that their business resides in – earlier this week we discussed paycheck/payroll frequencies by state – and they will follow those rules. This will work fine unless you are a contractor who [...]

Comment on QuickBooks Tip – Job Costing Starts With A Simple Item by Are Your QuickBooks Items Doing Their Job for Your Company? | QuickBooks and Your Business

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:44:58 +0000

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Comment on Choosing QuickBooks & Add-Ons for Your Construction Business by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:27:12 +0000

Hi Annie, thanks for letting me know – WordPress has done this a couple of times since I did the update – the link is all fixed and I’ll email the link to you directly.

Comment on Choosing QuickBooks & Add-Ons for Your Construction Business by Annie Kendrick

Annie Kendrick — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:19:55 +0000

Hi Nancy,
The link to download the article doesn’t appear to be working.
Annie

Comment on Bookkeeping/Accounting Tasks and Employee New Hire Packet by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:51:52 +0000

Hi Michelle
Thanks for the great compliment Communication and organization are tough – we’re all so busy – and it’s so easy to overlook things. Lists like this are great tools. These actually originated back in the days that I was a bookkeeper and would go in once a week for some of my smaller contractors, they’d leave me what they felt was the right amount of information, but they always left something out that I needed. These lists provided them with a way to give me everything that I needed so I could get things set up correctly and not have to chase down the missing info.

Comment on Bookkeeping/Accounting Tasks and Employee New Hire Packet by Michelle Edwards

Michelle Edwards — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:49:57 +0000

What great resources for small business owners! Thank you for compiling this information and making it available!

Comment on QuickBooks Tip-Handling Employee Reimbursements for Expenses by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:40:08 +0000

Hi Jeannie
Without actually “seeing” what’s going on in QuickBooks – I’m going to be VERY cautious in my answer.

Make a backup of your QuickBooks file.
Go into the Reimbursement check – actually Edit it so you can see the accounts that it lists with the dollar amounts. Pick one item.
Go and look at the bill that was entered for this item – is it posted to the same account?

If so, void the check – Edit menu -> Void – in the Memo line enter Paid by Owner X on check # whatever.

Rerun your report and see if the amount changed.

If so, void the other bills using the same message in the memo line.

Comment on QuickBooks Tip – Job Costing Starts With A Simple Item by Working With Taxable & Non-taxable Items and Customers | QuickBooks for Contractors blog

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:20:37 +0000

[...] of your QuickBooks Items/Cost Codes should be set up and linked to BOTH and Income and an Expense/Cost of Goods Sold Account otherwise you’ll never get any decent job costing [...]

Comment on QuickBooks Tip-Handling Employee Reimbursements for Expenses by Jeannie

Jeannie — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:25:25 +0000

Hi Nancy,
Our small business just purchased Quickbooks in September. Before this, we had been doing everything manually. I have entered every invoice and receipt for the year of 2011. I LOVE quickbooks, but I am running into a slight problem. Another owner/ employee pays some of the bills every month, such as the phone bill, the credit card bills, the van payment, insurance, etc and the company reimburses him on one check every month. I entered these bills individually on Item Receipts under each vendors name, and the check that is written to him for reimbursement is listed as an Expense Reimbursement on the check register. Now I printed the Profit and Loss statement, and it shows these bills as an expense PLUS the expense reimbursement for these bills as another expense. So, if the bills are $1,500 total, with the Expense Reimbursement for these bills, it shows expenses of $3,000. How do I fix this? Do I delete one or the other?

Comment on QuickBooks Tip – Job Costing Starts With A Simple Item by QuickBooks Weekly Timesheet - Service vs. Payroll Item | QuickBooks for Contractors blog

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:15:40 +0000

[...] your company has spent – so it’s important that your items are set up to capture both Income and Expenses. This provides you with the ability to analyze which types of work/services are the most [...]

Comment on QuickBooks 2012 Announced by Our Blog in 2011 - The Year in Review | QuickBooks for Contractors blog

Our Blog in 2011 - The Year in Review | QuickBooks for Contractors blog — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:18:06 +0000

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Comment on How To Complete an AIA G-702/G-703 & Document Change Orders by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:43:11 +0000

Randy
Thanks for catching this. I had to have some work done on our website yesterday which involved moving the entire blog – seems that something happened to that link, it’s working now and I’ve sent you the free eBook directly.

Comment on How To Complete an AIA G-702/G-703 & Document Change Orders by Randy Johnson

Randy Johnson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:21:29 +0000

Tried the Free ebook link, but received the following msg: Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.

Comment on QuickBooks Tips – 5 Reasons to Use QuickBooks Group Items – Part 1 by Creating Estimates In Excel vs. QuickBooks - What's the Difference? | QuickBooks for Contractors blog

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:17:35 +0000

[...] and set up items that correspond to that master list of of the things your company does, creating Group Items or Inventory Assemblies if [...]

Comment on QuickBooks Tip-Adding Project Information to Invoices/Estimates by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:06:24 +0000

Hi, thanks for stopping by and I’m so glad to hear that you find our QuickBooks information helpful

Comment on QuickBooks Tip-Adding Project Information to Invoices/Estimates by Reno

Reno — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:39:36 +0000

This information is great. I don't think I have found a blog on Quickbooks as informative as this one. This is great for a bookkeeping services interested in more tips on Quickbooks.

Comment on Employee Education & Training – Are You Making the Investment? by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:41:08 +0000

Thank you.

Comment on Employee Education & Training – Are You Making the Investment? by Website Creating Software

Website Creating Software — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:01:11 +0000

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Comment on The Benefits of Paying Prevailing Wage Fringes to a Bona-fide Plan by Prevailing Wage Jobs - Fringe Benefits Question | QuickBooks for Contractors blog

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:32:36 +0000

[...] Take a look at this article on my blog that shows the difference between paying the fringe to the employee vs. putting it into a bona-fide plan – http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/05/25/the-benefits-of-paying-prevailing-wage-fringes-... [...]

Comment on Happy New Year! by Nancy Smyth

Nancy Smyth — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:09:14 +0000

Hi Rhonda
Happy New Year to you! I will certainly keep you posted on the training opportunities throughout the year