Bookkeeping Advice

Payroll Taxes to Wages Payroll Adjustment

This article addresses one of the more common payroll adjustments needed in your bookkeeping; the purpose is for the proper recognition of your gross wages. Typical outsourced payroll providers withdrawal your bank account mainly for the following three reasons: Total wage payouts to your employees Total tax payouts to tax agencies Fees charged by the

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Convert PDF Transactions to Spreadsheet for Import into QuickBooks

This article addresses the issue of conveniently importing credit card transactions into your QuickBooks company file, but from a PDF type of file. Sometimes (for whatever reasons), you may not be able to obtain a convenient spreadsheet download (or from a bank feeds connection) of your credit card transactions, but instead are able to obtain

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Sale of Spec Home – Income Statement Overview

It is important to have a general outline of how to handle the sales of your speculative homes (spec homes) in your bookkeeping system. In a previous article, I discussed the Balance Sheet type of accounts that would be affected when you finally sell your speculative home that you have built from the ground up.

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When CPA’s Ask for the Financial Statements

This article addresses what to do when your Accountant requests the “financial statements” regarding your business activities. Sometimes your CPA may not be very specific in these requests, however, typically the financial statements are what I like to call, The Big 3: Balance Sheet Profit & Loss General Ledger Be sure, however, that you do

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Making Changes to Closed Periods

This article deals with having to post transactions into your bookkeeping file, however the dates of these new transactions will be in financial periods that have already closed.   Depending on advice from your CPA, you may or may not be inclined to make changes within your financial records after-the-fact. This can typically be due

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Tracking Investments Bookkeeping- Part 4

Part 4 in this series of tracking investments bookkeeping will cover reinvested dividends and market value adjustments. In general, Reinvested Dividends do not get paid out in cash, but rather the income is simply reinvested in the underlying equity; in other words, more shares of stock are purchased with the earned dividends.   In general,

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Third Party Bill Payment Service Usage

The article will address basic bookkeeping concerns to think about when utilizing a 3rd party (outsourced) bill payment service (such as Bill.com).   To begin, a 3rd party bill payment service can be a most convenient tool or service for your business, especially if it integrates directly with your bookkeeping software, such as QuickBooks Online.

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Tracking Investments Bookkeeping – Part 3

Part 3 in this series of tracking investments in your QuickBooks Desktop file will cover selling your paper investments. When you engage in the sale of your investment (or even a fixed asset), there are essentially three main categories to be concerned with and thus adjusted here:   Cost Basis Gains or Losses as a

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Resolving Uncleared Transactions

The article addresses the tracking of any bank or credit card activity that has been posted into your bookkeeping system but did not clear your bank or credit card accounts. In other words, posted transactions in your bookkeeping system that cannot be matched to any bank or credit card monthly closing statements. Here are some

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Sale of Spec Home – General Balance Sheet Overview

It is important to have a general outline of how to handle the sales of your speculative homes (spec homes) in your bookkeeping system. Typically, all of the purchases (including land, materials, labor, etc) related to the construction of the speculative home would have been capitalized (put into asset type of accounts on the balance

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