Author: foggedin
10 Mar User Hacks for Quickbooks Online You Can’t Live Without
Hacks for Using Quickbooks Online Efficiently
If you are starting out in Quickbooks Online for the first time or even harder making the change from a desktop software the Quickbooks Online world can feel strange. Having a few go-to tricks can greatly improve your user experience and make the transition easier.03 Mar Bookkeepers: Rigid Bean Counters or Allies in Compliance?
Bookkeepers As Partners, Not Opponents
We, bookkeepers and accountants, may get a bad rap. We are often characterized as rigid beancounters who suck the fun out of entrepreneurship. Bookkeepers must straddle the worlds of inflexible compliance and chaotic entrepreneurial spirit. The "advisor" variety of bookkeeper has the job of nurturing the entrepreneur's idea, and coincidentally the spirit of entrepreneurship itself. Bookkeepers must do this while also guiding along a perilous journey. Lack of cash flow, payroll rules and fines, audits, and lawsuits lurk in the margins waiting to bring down even your best ideas.02 May Can I Get Some Support?: The Challenges and Solutions of Being an Enterprise Level Customer
How do we solve for the mid-level support problem that is prevalent today? We don't have all the answers but we have some insight...
04 Apr How to Start a Business: The First 14 Organizational Steps
Now as anyone who has ever started a business knows there are a million steps to getting started. You have a logo to design, colors to pick, leases to sign, office chairs to buy, staff to hire, marketing and branding to build out, product to...
16 Jan Downloading and Importing Banking Data Without Connecting the Bank In Quickbooks Desktop
There are a variety of circumstances in which you cannot connect the online banking to the Quickbooks desktop file. For any bookkeeper, or business owner, that has ever had to hand enter more than a handful of transactions into Quickbooks the pain is real. Alas,...
05 Jan Taking Your Accounting Digital In 3, 2, 1
Getting your accounting out of the shoebox and into the 21st century is not just a thing of fantasy. You can do it for yourself in under 5 minutes. The most important part is to start. For the timid and unsure this is the best...
14 Dec Why Do You Need My W-9 Form?
If you have been a bookkeeper for more than 10 minutes some service provider has probably dug their heels in and refused to give you a W-9 form or at least questioned the necessity of this information exchange. Here is my canned answer: W-9s by IRS...
14 Dec Why We Require Certificates and Workers’ Comp Coverage From Nearly EVERY Subcontractor
When working with contractors we deal with hundreds and thousands of subcontractors. Often we get push back when we request their certificates of insurance. I think I've had this argument probably hundreds of times. The subs like to pull out the old well I'm not...
09 Nov A Letter to the Fogged In Team On An Uneasy Day
Good Morning Team, As we wake and begin our day I can imagine you and your family may have some of the same worries and concerns as me and mine. The election results have come as a surprise to many of us and to the world....