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How to Read a TXF File

TXF files contain tax data. The format is standard with tax and accounting software. When you have a TXF file, you can easily open it in TurboTax, Microsoft Money, H & R Block At Home and Mint.com...

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How to Split Lines in QuickBooks Transactions to Accounts Receivable

When a customer owes you money for an item or service that you provided on a credit basis, the amount they owe is automatically placed into Accounts Receivable in the QuickBooks accounting software. If...

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How to Enter Cash Receipts in Quickbooks

"Buy now, pay now," is how a cash transaction is often referred to. Regardless of the form of payment, when a customer pays at the time of sale, he is considered to be a cash customer. Depending on...

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How to Account for Shipping Costs in Quickbooks

Bookkeeping may seem daunting, but Intuit's Quickbooks software makes it simple for small businesses to keep track of their shipping costs and income. So long as you make sure you enter all of the...

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What Are SAP Cost Elements?

SAP is a company that provides business software solutions to organizations who want to leverage technology to automate, integrate or improve business processes. SAP cost elements refer to classifying...

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How to Print Balance Sheets in QuickBooks

Balance sheets in QuickBooks give you an overview of your company's overall financial condition. Because balance sheets lists assets and liabilities, end of the year reports are often printed and kept...

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How to Make Every Other Row a Color in a QuickBooks' Template

Alternating colored rows make it easier to distinguish items in invoices and other financial documents, where close rows of many numeric entries may seem to blend together. If you use the accounting...

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How Do I Import Quicken QDF Into GnuCash?

You cannot import Quicken Data Files, or QDFs, directly into GnuCash, as most third-party financial management software cannot read this file format. However, there is a way to export a Quicken...

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How to Make Partial Payments in Quickbooks

While QuickBooks has many features that can help you keep track of the bills you owe, it won't magically make money appear where there is none. However, when you're facing an economic hardship and...

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How to Schedule a Quicken Recurring Payment

It's easy to forget a bill payment. Unfortunately, making this mistake can have the consequence of lowering your credit rating or causing you to pay late fees. Quicken Bill Reminder allows you to set...

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How to Customize Check Printing in QuickBooks

One of Quickbooks' features is the ability to print checks on your printer. With vendor or employee addresses right on the check, you can sign it and place it in a windowed envelope, cutting down on...

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How to Record Payments to Vendors in QuickBooks

Recording a payment to a vendor in QuickBooks is a simple process, but it requires that you have previously entered the bill the vendor sent you. To record a payment that you've already made to a...

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How to Move One Transaction in QuickBooks

Correcting errors in your company accounts can be time-consuming if you have to delete the entire transaction from one account and enter it as a new transaction in another account. QuickBooks business...

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Help With TXF Files on a Mac

If you use computer software to help you prepare and file your taxes or to perform other financial work, you may have heard of TXF files, or Tax Exchange Files. The TXF format improves communication...

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Does Quicken Willmaker Work for Macs?

Quicken Willmaker is a software program created by Intuit and sold online at the Nolo site, as well as in online retail stores. The program allows users to create a will that includes the legal...

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What Is ADP Software?

ADP, or Automatic Data Processing, is a business solutions provider that offers products and services for businesses worldwide. ADP specializes in human resource services, including benefits...

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How to Track Contracts With QuickBooks

Using QuickBooks provides small businesses with a convenient way to track expenses, income and other financial matters. QuickBooks makes it possible for businesses to track contracts with customers and...

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Quicken Vs. Mint

The Quicken software and the Mint.com website both let users enter financial data and plan for the future. Both services are owned by Intuit, which also owns TurboTax, the tax preparation software. As...

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Can I Convert a File From Qif to Qfx?

Financial programs like Quicken and similar programs let you keep track of incoming and outgoing funds and expenses and plan your financial future. The programs are also capable of opening and...

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Can I Import Data From QuickBooks to H&R Block at Home?

H&R Block At Home lets you file your federal and state income taxes as well as electronically to the Internal Revenue Service. The program is capable of importing tax data from the previous tax...

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Can You Set Up an Escrow Account in QuickBooks?

An escrow account is money held by a trusted third party and not dispersed until the contractual conditions established by two transacting parties are met. Either or both parties to the trust may wish...

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How to Find QuickBooks General Ledger Mapping

The QuickBooks business accounting application automatically maps the debits and credits from all income and expenditure account registers to a General Ledger screen that gives you a complete record of...

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What Is Quicken Launcher?

Understanding the components of your Quicken application is an important part of learning the functions and purpose of the software. When you receive an error that discusses Quicken Launcher, or you...

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Why is Quicken Not Downloading Transactions?

Several reasons may prevent the Quicken software from successfully downloading transactions from your financial institutions. Reviewing these reasons can help you resolve or remedy the situation. Some...

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Can I Track Inventory in Quicken Home & Business?

Quicken Home and Business is financial software that is aimed at individuals with home businesses who want to track both their personal and business finances. The program provides a number of tools...

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Abort Error in QuickBooks

If you're running QuickBooks from a server rather than storing the data on your computer's hard drive, you may experience an abort error that crashes your QuickBooks. This is most likely to happen due...

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Difference Between WE02 & WE05

The SAP commands WE02 and WE05 are similar in many ways, but they have one major difference. You should choose one over the other when you need to make a detailed survey of your system's IDOCs, and...

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How to Clear Old Transactions in Quickbooks

Past transactions can impact the operation of your QuickBooks database, resulting in slow system performance. As you use QuickBooks, old transactions don't automatically get archived. When you no...

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QuickBooks: What Is a Line of Credit?

A line of credit in QuickBooks pertains specifically to credit extended to your business through a bank or loan provider. A few special circumstances exist when entering lines of credit in QuickBooks....

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How to Categorize a Credit Card Payment in QuickBooks

In QuickBooks, credit card payments require you to use a different process than cash and check-based payments. When entering credit card payments, you should use either the Sales Receipt or Receive...

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How to Create a Sales Tax Report in QuickBooks

QuickBooks' sales tax reports make it easy to find out how much your business owes when it's time to remit payments to state and local governments. The report lists your total taxable sales, and...

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How to Get Rid of Average Costing in QuickBooks Reports

You can eliminate the effects of cost averaging in your QuickBooks Enterprise reports by enabling the FIFO method of inventory accounting. FIFO, short for first-in, first-out, provides a more accurate...

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How to Change the Font Size in Turbo Tax

TurboTax, the online income tax software from Intuit, comes in two versions: the online version and the downloaded version. If you need to use TurboTax for a few hours and working with so many numbers...

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How to Eliminate Password Resets in QuickBooks

QuickBooks normally prompts you to reset your password every 90 days when you store or process confidential credit card information. If you get the prompt every time you log in, you may have a faulty...

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How to Do Year End Closing in Peachtree Accounting

Sage Peachtree won't permit you to leave open more than two fiscal years at a time. Once you've reached the last accounting period of your second fiscal year, you must close out the first fiscal year...

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How to Record a Payment Received for an Invoice in QuickBooks

Invoices provide a way for your customer to pay for an item or service over time. When you get a payment toward an invoice, you can use the Receive Payments window to accept and register the payment....

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How to Set Up an Item List in QuickBooks

Creating an item list allows you to view items available to enter on invoices and purchase orders. Double-clicking any item on the list opens another window that displays greater detail about that...

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Problems With the Margins in QuickBooks

There are numerous margin adjustments that take place in QuickBooks software. There are different margins for reports, printed checks and journal printing. There are also several types of printers used...

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How to Create an Assembly Workaround in QuickBooks Pro

One of the differences between QuickBooks Premier and Pro versions is the ability of the Premier version to build assemblies. An assembly is a combination of individual inventory items that are...

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How to Set Up QuickBooks for Consulting

One industry that experiences the ebb and flow of market forces is the consulting field. Like any other business, a consulting company must be able to keep track of it's expenses and revenues. And like...

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How to Quickbooks Annual Financial Report

Intuit and QuickBooks are registered trademarks of Intuit, Inc. Quickbooks has been designed to assist small business owners with the ability to easily manage their bookkeeping functions. There are...

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How to Set Up QuickBooks for a Daycare

QuickBooks accounting software includes an Easy Setup Interview that allows users to set up and begin using a company file in minutes. During the process you may choose an industry and allow QuickBooks...

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How to Set Stop Loss in Think or Swim

It is smart investing to use stop losses when actively trading stocks. This tool allows you to limit the amount of capital lost when a trade goes bad. There are two predominant advantages to using a...

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How to Book a Vendor Referral Fee in QuickBooks

Some companies will send business to another company on referral, then charge the second company a referral fee as payment for generating business income. The fee is considered an expense for the...

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How to Record a Refund of an Overpayment of a Bill in QuickBooks

Occasionally, a customer will pay more than what they owe to your business; it could be an invoice error or a customer mistake. Whatever the reason, it is essential to properly record any refund checks...

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Monthly Comparisons of Profit & Loss in QuickBooks

QuickBooks is a software program used to track your company's financial data. The program offers many report options to enable you to monitor your company's finances. Quickbooks retail, accountant and...

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How to Open a QDF File

A QDF file stores transaction data, tax information, financial portfolio records and user account details for use with Quicken software. QDF files are specifically developed by Intuit for opening with...

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List of Accounts Payable Reports in SAP

You can access four types of information using the list of Accounts Payable reports in SAP. The company stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. SAP software helps to organize...

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Step-by-Step Instructions for Accounts Receivable in QuickBooks

Recording accounts receivables properly in QuickBooks will help you better manage your business finances. Also, accurate recording of your finances will allow you to have important data available when...

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How to Copy a Journal Entry in QuickBooks

If you use QuickBooks software, you may have noticed that many of the transactions you enter are identical to other transactions. It's more convenient to copy a transaction that you use frequently,...

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