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By Tammy Hoang, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Irvine Bookkeeping — Bookkeeping Services Orange County | (949) 482-2790 Sales tax is one of the most consequential — and most frequently misconfigured — functions in QuickBooks Online. For California small businesses, getting the QuickBooks Online sales tax setup right means collecting the correct rate on every taxable sale, remitting to the right agency on the right schedule, and keeping a clean sales tax liability balance o

By Tammy Hoang, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Irvine Bookkeeping — Bookkeeping Services Orange County | (949) 482-2790 One of the most important distinctions in QuickBooks Online bookkeeping is the difference between recording an expense you have already paid and recording a bill you owe but have not paid yet. When a vendor sends you an invoice and you need to pay it in 30 days, that is a bill — a liability sitting in your accounts payable QuickBooks balance until payment

By Tammy Hoang, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Irvine Bookkeeping — Bookkeeping Services Orange County | (949) 482-2790 QuickBooks Online is the most widely used accounting software for small businesses in the United States — and for good reason. When set up correctly and used consistently, it handles everything from bank feeds and expense categorization to invoicing, bill management, sales tax, and financial reporting in one cloud-based platform. This guide is the fourth

Most small business owners did not start their business to do bookkeeping. They started it to build something. But the financial side of running a business does not wait — and the mistakes that pile up in the books quietly cost money, trigger IRS scrutiny, and make tax season far more painful than it needs to be. The good news is that the most common bookkeeping mistakes are also the most predictable ones. Here are the five we see most often — and what it takes to fix them. M

Getting paid starts with sending a professional, accurate invoice. For small business owners using QuickBooks Desktop, creating invoices is one of the most important and most frequently used functions in the software. Whether you are billing a client for services, products, or both, QuickBooks Desktop gives you everything you need to create clean, professional invoices quickly. This step-by-step guide walks you through exactly how to create an invoice in QuickBooks Desktop, f