Archive for the 'accounting basics' Category

Brutally Honest Car Sales Tips

If you sell cars for a living and you are searching for some car sales tips you are in luck. You might not even want to hear what I have to say, but you will be better off when you get your car sales commission next week. Everybody can sell more cars and make more [...]

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Starting a Law Firm – Local Counsel Work

When considering starting your own law firm, one often overlooked source of business for your fledgling business is local counsel work. When I began my career as an attorney at a medium sized firm, I had an idea of what I would be working on. For instance, areas such as corporate law, family law, criminal [...]

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Types of Payroll Services – Outsourcing, Software, Consultancy

Managing a company’s payroll can be time consuming, costly and extremely frustrating. Spending all that time keeping up to date on the recent tax laws, regulations, procedures and tax codes can often become an exercise in futility, not to mention an extreme drain on a company’s internal resources. In fact, it’s not uncommon for companies [...]

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Fixed Asset Management Does More Than Let You Know When Things Go Missing

Fixed asset management not only allows you to track and locate assets and their depreciation, it can also allow you to foresee degradation time and trigger renewals. The main feature of fixed asset management is primarily to track the location, condition, maintenance and cash value depreciation of their assets. If you work in a large [...]

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Setting Up Quickbooks, Part One – Getting Started

You’ve just purchased your first Quickbooks software and brought it home. You’ve been in business for a number of years and figure you can handle entering in your vendors and customers easily. You want to plug it in and start entering your data right away. The seductive nature of the Easy-Step Interview is calling you [...]

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Manitoba Accountants – Pricing Strategies For Your Business

One of the most important business decisions that can be, and often has to be, made is one regarding the pricing of a particular product or service, since this is what would differentiate a brand from competition. Here are a few tips regarding the various pricing strategies used by Manitoba accountants to give businesses a [...]

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How to Land a PSW Job

. The “age old” story holds true. Ontario based residents are getting older, many are reaching retirement and the majority will require care in one form or another.While the sheer number of incoming PSW’s can frighten off some job hunters, the number of employees required far out weights the number within the force work, so [...]

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QuickBooks – How To Reconcile Accounts on a Daily Basis

Have you ever wanted to reconcile a bank account in QuickBooks on a daily basis? It’s very easy to do, if you have the correct information. You will need a report from the financial institution showing three things: 1. The opening balance of the account on that day 2. All banking activity for the day [...]

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Find An Accountant Online

If you’ve ever tried to find an accountant online, then you will know that you will be faced with the anonymous corporate image. The amazingly complex but yet bland websites devoid of all human feeling and compassion. You’ll be told that “we can save you tax whilst making more profit”, none of which is believable, [...]

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Building Excel Formulas

Formula BasicsFormulas must begin with the equal sign (=); that’s how Excel distinguishes them from values and labels.You can construct formulas that subtract, multiply, divide, and exponentiate. The- symbol means subtraction, the * means multiplication, the / means division, and the ^means exponential operation.Entering Formulas in ExcelExcel calculates formulas automatically. You enter

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