April 2013
10 posts
Apollo Business Centers: 10 Tips for Setting Up a... →
abcvirtual:
Invest in a laptop: The single most important tool for a freelancer, a laptop enables you to bring your work wherever you go. I’ve been known to work during piano lessons, in the waiting room at my dentist’s office, at my in laws’, the library, the coffee shop and anywhere else I need to be.
Have some sort of instant messaging system in place:
BitFountain: The Startup IT Infrastructure →
bitfountain:
Recently I had to perform a factory reinstall on my Macbook Air. During the setup process, I realized how much easier it was than when I worked in corporate IT consulting. Even though I currently use more programs now than I had in the past, the true change was that our business is based on nearly…
Life & How To Live It: Today I intended to post... →
life-howtoliveit:
Today I intended to post about enchiladas, but I forgot to set the timer on them and I was drinking wine with my friend and I, um, overcooked them. The moral of the story is always set a timer even if you are sitting five feet away from your oven and especially if you are drinking wine.
Instead,…
Profitably | Blog: The Ultimate 6-Week Startup... →
profitably:
I met another young man today who is en route to a world class MBA program to fill in the gaps in his knowledge prior to starting his life in a startup.
I gave him the same metaphor I have given droves of others. If you wanted to be a world-class cyclist and told me you were going to spend the…
Innovation Mama: Why Are You Still Talking? →
lesleykg:
Some of the most successful innovations of the past 20-30 years have involved technology replacing good old pen and paper. Quickbooks, TurboTax, Excel, PayPal … the list goes on and on.
But the surprising thing is that there are still so many situations where technology hasn’t replaced pen…
DumbTax: 20 Things College Didn’t Teach Me About... →
ericknopf:
When starting a business, people can get caught up with the idea of needing more education. Somehow people have correlated more college with higher business acumen. Now, I loved my college, but in many ways it taught me a lot of theory but left me high and dry for some key…
Get My Time: The Best Way to Use Quickbooks Time... →
get-my-time:
As much more men and women start to delve into technological processes that help for making their business enterprise far more effective, extra firms are commencing to make the most of Quickbooks. Along with the sufficient quantity of gains that happen to be associated together with the…
March 2013
12 posts
Tablet Claw: Top 5 Things NOT To Do When Starting... →
tabletclaw:
1. Do NOT Celebrate Being Your Own Boss:
Don’t go out and buy a nice suit for that “big meeting” with potential investors, backers and partners. Don’t “expense” that incredibly pricey meal to impress clients. When you show up in an Armani suit your money management capabilities are going to be…
startops: How should I handle my bookkeeping? →
startops:
Bookkeeping, not only an awesome triple double-letter word, is effectively the recording and analyzing of business transactions during the operation of a business. It is essential to have your “books” in order for taxes at the end of the year, and more importantly for receiving any type of…
“Oh right yeah we should cover that. You see, my resume might not actually be...”
– Jean-Ralphio
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Profitably | Blog: How Profitably does business →
profitably:
We have had a wave of companies recently ask us which web apps and service providers we use. It’s probably because we spend so much time talking about focusing on the core and shopping out the rest to professionals (“adults,” as we joke). This also means that Francis is only writing code relating…
February 2013
10 posts
Silver: Oh boy! →
davidmichaelbennett:
I am almost caught up on bookkeeping. Two months down…only 1 1/2 to go. Well…it wasn’t really 3 1/2 months of me doing absolutely nothing bookkeeping wise…I just didn’t update Quickbooks for that long while we were at the Zoo and whatnot. It feels good to be getting it done… But I am in a weird…
Introducing order exporting
bigcartel:
When we released our new Orders page in your admin a few weeks ago, we promised to keep improving on it. Well, we’re already making good on that promise with a highly requested upgrade – order exporting.
Now when you scroll down to the bottom of the Orders page, you’ll see the option to Export CSV. High five, right?! You can easily get your order info and import it into a...
Practical Cloud Computing: The State of NoSQL in... →
rooksfury:
Preamble Ramble
If you’ve been working in the online (e.g. internet) space over the past 3 years, you are no stranger to terms like “the cloud” and “NoSQL”.
In 2007, Amazon published a paper on Dynamo. The paper detailed how Dynamo, employing a collection of techniques to solve…
New Features for QuickBooks 2012 →
tlbhelp:
With the changing of the seasons comes the release of the new versions of QuickBooks. For those of you on Enterprise (with an active maintenance plan), you will get the 2012 version sometime starting around the middle of September. For those of you on Pro or Premier, you will have to choose…
New App for Quickbooks
cparunning:
Track your business on-the-go with QB Mobile
We have free native apps connecting to QuickBooks Online on the iOS and Android. Follow the links below to download QB Mobile. We know many customers have been asking for the ability to do tasks on their mobile devices. Right now you’ll be able to create invoices and estimates and manage your customers. We are updating these apps...
A Non-Profit For Your Thoughts: Quickbooks Premier... →
anonprofitforyourthoughts:
So I have finally gotten my hands on this piece of software and I plan on trying it out. I have always told myself that I needed to learn this software if I wanted to make myself more marketable to nonprofits and other organizations. Every job ad (or most of them) that I’ve seen when it comes to…
Get My Time: The Best Way to Use Quickbooks Time... →
get-my-time:
As much more men and women start to delve into technological processes that help for making their business enterprise far more effective, extra firms are commencing to make the most of Quickbooks. Along with the sufficient quantity of gains that happen to be associated together with the…
January 2013
10 posts
Profitably | Blog: How Profitably does business →
profitably:
We have had a wave of companies recently ask us which web apps and service providers we use. It’s probably because we spend so much time talking about focusing on the core and shopping out the rest to professionals (“adults,” as we joke). This also means that Francis is only writing code relating…
Portrait of a CPA by AccountingEdu.org
cparunning:
Additional information on continuing education for CPAs and Accountants can be found at http://www.accountingedu.org/
Chad Shultz, CPA: The Hip Accountant →
cparunning:
The days of the geeky accountant must come to an end. Accountants and CPA’s can be Hip Accountant’s. To accomplish this transformation, all accountants must stand together and do at least the following:
1. No more closed and stuffy offices. The Accounting Office must be open and vibrant….
Truth Be Told: Accountant / CPA Earning Power! →
livacpa:
We all know being an accountant and a CPA specifically is a great career choice because of job security and healthy compensation. But what do the numbers really look like? As with any profession, salaries will vary by geography, experience, education and the size of the firm.
The consistent and…
Be a CPA: Accounting Student: →
debitnash:
Still uses Calculator in solving simple arithmetic. (So dependent to Calculator).
Read the book for 6271891times and still says “I haven’t studied that much”.
Computes. Gets an answer that has decimal places. Panics. Recomputes.
Absent for 1 day. Feels absent for a month.
…
When the interviewer asks why you want to leave...
howshouldweaccountforme:
You’re like:
Which Tax Write-Off Could Pay For Ending... →
upworthy:
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost us $20 billion to end homelessness in America. Granted, we can all agree that $20 billion is a lot of scratch, but if Americans are going to spend the same amount on holiday decorations, and THREE TIMES that amount on tax write-offs for corporate meals and entertainment, well, maybe the issue isn’t the...
Up With Chris: The fiscal cliff deal: A tax hike... →
What was perhaps most revealing about the final deal reached by President Obama and congressional Republicans to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff”–or “fiscal curb,” as we’ve been calling it at Up w/ Chris Hayes–is what it told us about who Washington actually serves, and what lawmakers think…
“When it comes to taxes, there are two pathways available.
One says, if...”
– President Obama (via barackobama)
December 2012
10 posts
When someone quits public accounting and you ask...
howshouldweaccountforme:
They are just like:
When the interviewer asks why you want to leave...
howshouldweaccountforme:
You’re like:
hedi-aneki:
what the—- ? x”DD
