Category: Technology

concept-collage-cloud
Technology

Head in the Clouds

Rapid advances in technology continue to change the atmosphere of accounting and bookkeeping. Today’s forecast calls for cloudy skies. At ProLedge, we’re continuously studying online technologies and accounting applications to better serve our dynamic customer base…

Read More »
wooden-desk-with-mouse
Technology

Emailing QuickBooks Files

QuickBooks files tend to be very large. If you need to send a copy of your QuickBooks file to someone such as your CPA, attaching the file to an email is typically a bad idea because the email service provider on the recipient’s side will often block…

Read More »
young-business
Best Practices

Your Bookkeeper Needs Web Conferencing Very Badly

What are the three tools that you should expect your bookkeeper to know inside out? QuickBooks, Excel and web conferencing. Yes, web conference tools are now critical if you use an outside bookkeeper to support your accounting needs…

Read More »
businessman-using-calculator
Technology

QuickBooks Online: A Bad Week For Intuit

Between March 22, 2011 and March 25, many of Intuit’s online services, including QuickBooks Online, some payment services and payroll systems were down for pretty much 3 business days, paralyzing a large number of small businesses. As you may…

Read More »
secretary-work
Technology

How to Select a Scanner for Document Management

Scanners have two broad applications: scanning documents and scanning pictures. This being a bookkeeping blog, the focus will be on document management. Paperless is the word of the day and scanners are becoming an increasingly important tool in most businesses…

Read More »
business-man-calculating-finance
Technology

QuickBooks – When to Upgrade to the Latest Version

Each year, in the Fall, Intuit releases a new version of QuickBooks for their Pro, Premier and Enterprise line-ups. We’re now onto QuickBooks 2011. Should you upgrade to the 2011 version and when? In 2009, Intuit had a total revenue of $3.2 Billion…

Read More »
computer laptop showing analysis data
Technology

QuickBooks: Easy to Use, Easy to Break

Intuit, the maker of Quicken and QuickBooks, is an undisputed leader in software usability. They know better than anybody how to make their applications easy to learn and easy to use….

Read More »