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ProConnection® Newsletter | November 2007 | Vol. VI, No. 10
ProConnection® Newsletter | November 2007 | Vol. VI, No. 10
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Clients look to you for guidance on how to handle payroll, and changes are easier when planned to start in the new year. That's why now is the time to have the payroll conversation with selected clients. CPA Sandi Smith gives tips on which of your clients are most in need of a change – with tips on how to match the right client to the right solutions. See where your clients stand.
And don't miss our overview page for choosing the right payroll product.
The latest wave of entrepreneurs often prefer online access to their financial records. When you deal with such clients, it's good to have two online payroll options to recommend. One option is independent of QuickBooks. The other works as part of QuickBooks Online Edition.
Learn more about these two options, both as they exist today, and what is coming in a future release. You can even register your email address so we can tell you when new changes are coming. Learn more about discounts below.
QuickBooks 2008 has many new improvements, including a revamped in-product experience that will allow QuickBooks Payroll customers to use their payroll subscription without any interruption in service. By maintaining the up-to-date customer information required for subscription renewal, you and your clients will continue to receive accurate tax tables, paycheck calculations, and payroll tax forms.
Learn more about these two options.
Now you can get news and information from the American Payroll Association on the QuickBooks Payroll support site. The APA is a nonprofit association that offers payroll education, training, and publications. The content available from QuickBooks Payroll can help you understand many financial and legal aspects of payroll. Click here to get Payroll Basics from the APA.
More Resources. We've collected links to recent articles to help you here.
Also, check out the newly redesigned Payroll home from Intuit, with more educational materials to point out to clients on how to work with payroll.
More Ways to Keep Good Workers How can you help make your workplace fun and productive for your employees and yourself? Treating your employees to special perks will help them feel glad they work for you and can improve retention as well.
Here's how to perk up your workplace with no- or low-cost benefits. (And we don't mean just donuts.) Plus share a client-friendly version of this article with your own clients.
IRS Revises Circular 230 Rules The IRS continues its recent updates of Circular 230 with an update affecting fees, conflicts of interest, your eligibility to practice, and which provides the IRS with new ability to impose economic penalties on top of sanctions. [TD 9359 (9/25/2007)] Here's what you need to know.
Helping clients deal with capital gains at year-end usually means adhering to a few well-worn pieces of advice. But changes in two aspects of capital gains add wicked twists in 2007. Here's what to watch and why.
Pity the poor client in home foreclosure. Income and capital gains tax headaches may follow the loss of the home. Heres how existing law works, and how lawmakers are trying to respond for future relief.
Prepare your whole office for tax season through Lacerte Tax Law Update Training.
For $399, you can attend BOTH the live, in-person Lacerte Annual Update Seminar and the web-based Lacerte Tax Law Update Training. When you purchase the Lacerte Tax Law Update Training, you'll receive unlimited access to the web-based training for you AND for your entire staff.
For You and Your Clients. Even before the book is shipped to bookstores, Que Publishing is giving readers of Intuit ProConnection free access to this meaty resource on sharing data in QuickBooks 2008. The chapter covers both sides of the effort – client and accountant – and is perfect for educating clients on how to work with you more effectively.
Learn more and download the chapter here. You can also pre-purchase full copies of the book here, to be shipped on publication. (Laura Madeira is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and trainer.)
Thanks, Laura, and thanks Que!
Ecommerce has never been easier on Accountant.Intuit.com, Intuit's online resource for accountants and QuickBooks practitioners. QuickBooks ProAdvisors now have their own unobtrusive login at the top of our pages, so they can accrue additional ProAdvisor discounts for themselves, or for their clients, without having to log onto the ProAdvisor site first.
Secret Benefit for You or Your Clients. You can look like a hero to your clients on if you let them know they can download the eBook version of QuickBooks 2008: The Official Guide by Elaine Marmel from McGraw-Hill – for free. Versions of the guide are available at both the Premier and the Enterprise levels, depending on which software product they are using.
From QuickBooks Premier 2008, or from QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 8.0, please go to Help > Learning Center Tutorials and then go to the What's New page to find the link for the eBook download.
Discount for QuickBooks Pro Owners: Clients who are using QuickBooks Pro 2008 also get a break – 40% off the printed version of QuickBooks 2008: The Official Guide from McGraw-Hill. This is the version by Kathy Ivens, who often provides QuickBooks tips for us to share with our readers. Learn more about getting the discount to the printed book here.
Now live, and ready to serve accounting professionals and their clients in need of incorporation services, Intuit unveils the MyCorporation.com Accountants and Advisors Center.
Resources include
You may be meeting with your sole proprietor clients before year-end, so the timing is good to take advantage of the new tools (and discount) on the revamped MyCorporation.com site.
* Limited Offer. Use special offer code ACCT25D when you submit your order. Offer valid through December 31st, 2007.
If you or your clients are using Remote Access in QuickBooks as powered by WebEx, you may have already received notification to update your WebEx account. The reason for the update? WebEx is migrating the service to new servers, and a new URL, to offer faster performance, an easier interface, and improved reliability.
DEADLINE LOOMING: Old URL Will Close in Early December. Updating to the new service has both technical and financial aspects.
Changes affect all users of Remote Access from WebEx regardless of QuickBooks version.
This is an important update, and WebEx has provided various resources to help. Learn more and download their detailed guidance here.
Award from The Sleeter Group QuickBooks Point of Sale 7.0, the affordable, easy-to-use software program that replaces retailers' cash registers*, has been honored by The Sleeter Group, as one of a select group of technologies that enhances the QuickBooks line of small business accounting and management software.
QuickBooks POS tracks inventory, sales, and customer information, and then provides reports that are critical to managing business and serving customers. The POS software works with any QuickBooks Pro or Premier Edition (2005-2008) and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions (4.0-8.0), sold separately.
"Version 7 is definitely an Awesome QuickBooks Add-on," The Sleeter Group announces on its Web site. "QBPOS has a real-time, departmentalized inventory management (multi-store available), merchandising tools, pricing and margin management tools, reports, and superior integration with QuickBooks Financial software."
*PC and Cash Drawer sold separately.
Three Months Free* (For First 1,000 Signups). You or your clients, if among the first thousand to sign up, may be eligible for three months free on subscriptions to Intuit Online Payroll at a monthly rate of $29.95.
Learn more here or call 888-920-4227.
*The first three months (starting from the date of enrollment) of subscription to Intuit Online Payroll are free. Offer is valid for new Intuit Online Payroll customers only. Customers who participate in this offer will automatically be billed at the then current rates starting with the fourth month of service. Customers will be asked to present a valid credit card account for authorization when they enroll. Cancel at any time by following instructions found within the application. There is no charge to cancel. Offer good for a limited time only and can not be combined with any other IOP offer. Terms, conditions, pricing, features, functionality, service and support are subject to change at anytime without notice.
Intuit has E-File & Pay options available for customers through its QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll and QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll for Accountants. Find out how accounting professionals with QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll for Accountants can help their clients across those E-File & Pay capabilities, and which states are supported.
Learn how to help clients with E-File & Pay here.
Third Party Software Solves Common Inventory Issues Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor® Esther Friedberg Karp shows how this QuickBooks add-on software overcomes limitations for QuickBooks clients with boatloads of different inventory item, as well as handling FIFO reporting requirements, when average inventory costing just doesn't do the trick.
Read her extensive review here.
Vote Now for Your Favorite Applications Make Sure Your Voice Is Heard. In its latest Readers’ Choice Awards, CPA Technology Advisor is now running an open survey. CPA Technology Advisor is promoting the survey in its current issues.
Deadline: November 15. Be sure to respond before November 15, when the survey closes.
To be sure your voice is counted, let the magazine know what you think about QuickBooks financial software today.
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