Why all your files should be green

I’ve worked with companies whose file folders were color-coded: Blue meant one thing and red meant another. And chances are, if your files are color-coded, your office (like most others) uses a filing system of bland corporate beige. In this blog, I’m suggesting that your files should be all green!

No, this isn’t a pre-St. Patrick’s Day prank. Green files are far better for your business in a number of ways.

When I say “green” files, I don’t mean that they are green in color. I mean that they are ecologically-friendly. When I say “green” files I’m referring to scanning your files and paperwork and storing it online instead of in those giant filing cabinets that seem to multiply like rabbits in a busy office.

Online file storage companies offer a variety of services relating to storing and sharing your files. Now, I should make a clarifying point here: Some sites tend to have a greater emphasis on sharing. Sites like Box.net and YouSendIt.com are sometimes lumped into the online file storage industry but these sites are primarily there to help you ship big files from one place to another.

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QuickBooks & FreshBooks – Part 3 – Sales Tax

Part 3: Handling Sales Tax

QuickBooks is an accounting application and FreshBooks is an invoicing application. They are two different things, but in the end to have your data matching in both, there could be a ton of double entry resulting in valuable time consumed and strenuous effort.

You can have your data accurate in both, while not matching in both. Matching and accuracy are two different things. For all of the numbers to match up, it is a matter of accuracy. To have all of the details such as sales items etc. it would be a matter of matching.

In this blog post, I will begin to show you ways to get accurate data from FreshBooks into QuickBooks.

This blog post is Part 3, if you have not read the previous posts, I suggest that you do:

Part 1: Methods 1 & 2 to getting FreshBooks Income into QuickBooks

Part 2: Method 3 to getting FreshBooks Income into QuickBooks

Also useful, is my post: Handling Credit Card and PayPal Processing Fees in QuickBooks, which has a short segment relating to FreshBooks as well.

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Tags: Accrual, Accuracy, Accurate Data, Amp, Bas, Blog, Credit Card, Freshbooks, Good Stuff, Income Accounts, Invoicing, Matter Of Fact, Paypal, Quickbooks Accounting, Receivables, Sales Tax, Segment, Strenuous Effort, Tax Accounting, Two Different Things

Making FreshBooks work with QuickBooks and vice versa – Part 2

Part 1: Dealing with Income – Continued (Part 2)

QuickBooks is an accounting application and FreshBooks is an invoicing application. They are two different things, but in the end to have your data matching in both, there could be a ton of double entry resulting in valuable time consumed and strenuous effort.

You can have your data accurate in both, while not matching in both. Matching and accuracy are two different things. For all of the numbers to match up, it is a matter of accuracy. To have all of the details such as sales items etc. it would be a matter of matching.

In this blog post, I will begin to show you ways to get accurate data from FreshBooks into QuickBooks.

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Tags: Accounts Receivable, Accuracy, Accurate Data, Amp, Blog, Cash Basis, Cash Revenue, Freshbooks, Getting Money, Ideal, Invoicing, Quickbooks Accounting, Strenuous Effort, Two Different Things, Vice Versa

Setting up a new customer or client in QuickBooks

This is a very simple blog post on how to set up a new client or customer in QuickBooks.

Step by Step:

1. Open QuickBooks

2. On your Menu bar click Customer Center

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Tags: Amp, Bare Minimum, Blog, Crm Application, Crm System, Customer Center, Customer Name, Invoicing, Menu Bar, New Job, Other Additional Information, Quickbooks Premier, Screen Shots, Step 1, Step 2, Step By Step, Visuals, Voila

New design & We re-started our blog!

New Year and new ideas. As most of you know, we used to have a pretty nice blog and last year we took it down (why I don’t know). We plan on starting it up again – and this is it.

What better time to re-start a blog than with a whole new logo and design?

Stay tuned for application reviews, bookkeeping tips, and the whole nine yards.

Tags: Application Reviews, Better Time, Blog, Bookkeeping, Logo And Design, Logo Design, New Year, Whole Nine Yards

New Blog Coming Soon!

It has been awhile since IAC Professionals had a blog, but one is back (and will be better than ever if I do say so myself). Stay tuned, we are doing alot of tweaking and tinkering on the site. As soon as we have everything fine tuned, we will begin blogging away. Go ahead and subscribe to our feed in the upper right hand corner.

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