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December 2015
WHAT TO DO WHEN THE ACCOUNTANT IS GONE

In the span of only days, two clients approached us in a bit of desperation for help in setting up QuickBooks for their internal use, for eerily similar reasons. Turns out that in both cases, their external accountant had just passed away. We did not personally know these accountants, but still a sad note.

In one of the clients, the accountant was who took care of their QuickBooks. He entered their monthly activity into a QuickBooks file maintained by him, only to present the client with financials every month. 


2015 IT in Review


As we reach the end of 2015, here is my list of 10 IT items to consider and plan for next year:

1.  Make sure your OS is current, I recommend running Windows 10. Windows XP and Vista are unsupported and vulnerable to attack. Windows 7 and 8 get a free upgrade to Windows 10 (until July 2016). You have less than one year to take advantage of the free upgrade offer. Just make sure you do it before July 28th 2016. Plan Accordingly.


2. Upgrade to QuickBooks 2016 - if you have the Intuit service plan, you can get the new version of software included in your plan, we can help you with the upgrade if needed

 
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Newsflash
Top 10 ProAdvisor

Mendelson Consulting is pleased to announce that the company's founder and principal, Mario Nowogrodzki, CPA.CITP, has been chosen among the Top 10 QuickBooks ProAdvisors of 2015. Nowogrodzki was also named Top Integrations ProAdvisor. READ MORE

 
QuickBooks 
Program Preferences

QuickBooks has a setup wizard that helps you lay the groundwork for your company, but it's not comprehensive: There are many more decisions you need to make that aren't covered by the wizard.
 
Click Edit | Preferences to open the Preferences window. Among the options you can set here are:
 
- Default accounts for activities like writing checks and paying bills
 
- One-window or Multi-window view
 
- Default annual interest rate for Finance Charges
 
- Use Inventory and Purchase Orders
 
- Create Estimates 
- Multiple Currencies
- Set up reminders
- Use Payroll
- Charge Sales Tax
- Track billable time

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