Proper planning can eliminate last minute crisis in the accounting department.  There are deadlines throughout the year but they can all be accomplished easily if one begins EARLIER in the year to plan for the future deadlines.  This will enable your accountant to properly audit, review and finalize the data. October 2010: Pick out your [...]

Intuit released a recent update, R6, which caused the Queen’s QuickBooks file to crash numerous times while installing.  Fearing her royal subjects would encounter the same problem, she contacted Intuit, and was informed that the newest R7 update would replace the R6, and not cause any further crashes.  If you had previously tried to install the R6 [...]

Two great questions arrived at the castle this week: how to get rid of renegade adjusting journal entries and how can I know if changes have been made to my QuickBooks company file?  The first one is from the south from Davis at Cyclecenter.com:  “Highness, is there any way to remove clean-up genrnl’s from QB [...]

Your accounting program keeps track of money for you by putting each check you write, bill you pay, invoice you create into a bucket (called an account).

Queen’s Year End Article #1: After a period of time your QuickBooks file will become larger and larger. One way to reduce the file size is to archive or clean up data. Before you begin this process, it is important to know how QuickBooks cleans up data and what transactions are affected. Below is a [...]

….and pay for your next vacation Income taxes, that is. The Queen has no control over payroll taxes paid to the federal and state governments – if she did, it would be different than it is now. Let’s face it, right now you are recovering from either filing your income tax returns and paying the [...]

If you have an accounting question you’d like to ask The Queen, please go to the contact page and check the box labeled “Royal Questions” and submit your form. The Queen will answer and post the question and reply on this site. Thank you!

Now that the dust has settled, let’s talk about cleaning up the dust. Your 1099′s have been sent to subcontractors who made over $600. last year and provided services; your W2s have been mailed to employees and now it is time to begin the review for handing off your financials to the CPA to do [...]

Let’s talk about year end 2006. It is only August, why am I talking about year end stuff? Because once school starts in a fews weeks, it will soon be Halloween. Once Halloween is over the year is over and now is the time to start organizing your financial information for the tax returns next [...]