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TAX TIP: Use QuickBooks Online to Ease Estimated Tax Nightmares
DID YOU KNOW? Figuring out estimated taxes can be a big PITA if you don’t have a bookkeeping system…and doing your own books can be even more overwhelming….until now! If you pay estimated tax, and your income fluctuates, you may wish to adjust estimated tax installments you owe throughout the year, say if you’re not earning as…
Free Tool to Calculate 1040-ES Estimated Tax Payment Amounts (link)
Do you have issues calculating how much you need to pay with the Form 1040-ES quarterly estimated tax voucher ? As a tax professional, I find that an updated QuickBooks Online file is THE BEST resource for calculating estimated quarterly income tax payments. TAX TIP: If the tool I linked to below seems overwhelming or…
Use QuickBooks for your Retail Business
It doesn’t matter what type of cash register or POS system you may use in your retail business, it’s easy to integrate it with Quickbooks to record your daily sales activity off of your POS or cash register’s closing reports. (This is Second of a Two-Part Series on Retail Bookkeeping & Accounting. You may wish…
QuickBooks How-To: Voiding a Check
When you void a check, QuickBooks: changes the original amount of the check to “0.00” adds the text VOID: to the beginning of the Memo sets the cleared flag, Clr When you’ve specified that your books are closed through a given date, in addition to performing the above steps, QuickBooks gives you the option of…
Use the “Reconcile” Feature to be Accurate
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to reconcile your bank account, whether you use QuickBooks or not. QuickBooks makes reconciling accounts simple, so there is NO excuse not to take advantage of this feature. If you are not reconciling your bank and credit card accounts every month, you are overlooking one of the…
Retail Bookkeeping: End of Day Reporting
No matter what cash register, software, or point of sale system you may be using for the store, you should be pulling daily reports from it that can be used to reconcile your daily sales and enter other critical financial information into your Quickbooks company file.
This not is the only way to get accurate financial statements that will present a complete picture of your retail operation’s profitability and value, but it’s the most cost effective and common way for small businesses to manage their day to day bookkeeping.
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