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QuickBooks for the iPhone and Android are actually very different in a number of interesting ways. Learn about QuickBooks for the iPhone versus the version for the Android with help from a Microsoft certified technology specialist in this free video clip.
Many hands may make a workload lighter, but without the right tools in those hands, even the smallest project becomes a struggle. Hundreds of collaboration tools are available online -- some free and some requiring a monthly subscription -- that enable your team to work together smoothly and efficiently. Find the tool that's right for your team and project, whether you're planning an international business launch or working on a new menu for a restaurant.
QuickBooks is a popular accounting software designed for accountants and bookkeepers. Each year, a new version containing the changes in new tax laws and procedures is released, requiring a fresh installation on your computer system. QuickBooks usually launches without problems, but you can troubleshoot any problems starting up the program in just a few steps.
SAP's Crystal Reports software suite, which caters mostly to business users, allows you to design interactive reports complete with hypothetical scenario models, graphical charts and external data links. The Microsoft Windows operating system, Crystal Reports' native platform, comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This classification indicates a difference in the way the computer's processor handles information, with the 64-bit version processing data more effectively. As of February 2012, only one version of Crystal Reports XI runs on 64-bit operating systems.
Computers and laptops should always run at as low a temperature as possible. The numerous fans inside a computer chassis attest to this. A cool-running computer state is hard to achieve when the cleanliness and operating environment are working against it. Suboptimal conditions quickly raise the core temperature of the PC, causing poor performance, shutdowns and eventually component damage in the most severe cases.
Reconciling your bank records each month is a necessary step to ensure the accounts are accurate. The purpose of using financial software such as QuickBooks is to automate processes like bank reconciliation. If your computer freezes up or crashes after a reconciliation, a problem with the database or a print driver may be causing the problem.
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 is software designed for managing all stages in project development. This program includes step-by-step guides and tutorials. Data transfer to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Visio is simplified. MS Project Pro 2003 is officially supported by Microsoft to run on 32-bit and 64-bit Vista operating systems. Some features and other processes may crash when MS Project Pro 2003 is installed on a Vista machine.
Companies have employees, clients and vendors who live and work in diverse geographical locations, so Web conferencing tools, such as WebEx, are an essential means of communication. Cisco’s WebEx is a Web conferencing tool designed to help businesses and organizations host online conferences, webinars, product demonstrations and sales presentations, provide virtual support to their customers and conduct training sessions online. Before using WebEx, understand the dos and don'ts of hosting a Web-based event.
A MARC editor is a software application with which you edit existing or create new, properly formatted, machine-readable cataloging -- or MARC -- records. Information about each book in a public library is stored in a computer database using the standard MARC record format. Each MARC record consists of tagged fields that include a description of the book, main and added entries, subject heading, call number, date of publication and the publisher's name.
QuickBooks error 3371 occurs when Intuit QuickBooks can’t load its license file from your computer. QuickBooks refuses to start when it can’t verify that it’s legitimately licensed on your computer. You can fix this problem by running Intuit’s official repair utility, deleting the license file in question, installing Microsoft’s MSXML 4 software or performing a complete uninstall and reinstall of QuickBooks. QuickBooks will ask you to provide your license number again after the problem is fixed.
Files created in QuickBooks 2006 must be saved each time you exit the program. Just like most other computer software, if the program is closed without conducting a save, your new data will be gone the next time you access the file. A recent software upgrade or incorrectly mapped file may also result in missing data.
Software manufacturer Intuit produces the popular Quickbooks line of financial software, including accounting packages for small and large businesses. When you and your business first start using the software, you must migrate your current account information and files into the program. Gather the right information before starting the process to save time.
Linking a Microsoft Project to Excel worksheet data adds dynamic functionality to your Project files. Usually, the linking process – also called "embedding" – is a short and relatively simple process in which you copy and paste data from Excel into Project and then add a link back to the Excel worksheet. Changes you make to the Excel worksheet will then automatically update in Project. Understanding the types of problems that make linking difficult or impossible can prevent some problems from ever occurring and make it easier and quicker to solve those that do.
Permission errors occur in QuickBooks when the program detects that you should not be allowed to create or view a particular file. The issue is most often related to an issue with the file itself, but your overall Windows settings and permissions for QuickBooks folders may also be related to a file's permission error.
Quicken software offers personal finance solutions, products and services including budget planning and management, bill pay and investment growth and management. While using the software, you may experience a 7064 Quicken error. The 7064 error indicates that your data has reached Quicken's size or capacity limitations. You can avoid this error by managing your Quicken data files so they don’t exceed the maximum size or capacity limitations.
Whether you're using the Starter or Deluxe edition, Quicken allows you to organize your bank and credit card accounts and keep track of bills. However, if the program's files are damaged, or if it's improperly configured, the bill management program is likely to freeze and crash. Freezes, crashes and inconsistent performance suggest a corrupt version of Quicken, so it's important to find causes of common problems and solve them quickly and safely.
A baseline represents a picture of your project at a specific period in time. It is useful for maintaining control of and measuring against the performance of your project. As the project progresses, you can evaluate subsequent schedules against baseline schedules to monitor planned performance against actual performance. The process of tracking baselines in Microsoft Project is quite simple. This involves using the Project Statistics dialog, the Tracking Gantt and baseline columns in a task view.
Synchronizing Salesforce data with GroupWise allows employees to access data related to the company's customers directly from within the GroupWise client. Salesforce is an application suite that lets corporate users manage a large customer base and save information such as appointments or contact information on a local server. You can sync this server with GroupWise by installing a specific plug-in.
Not everyone is born with a gift for managing money. You can learn to budget and invest through study and experience or you can hire a professional financial consultant. FinanceWorks and Quicken are finance management tools produced by Intuit, a supplier of finance and tax management software for individuals and businesses. Both tools have features that can help you become a better steward of your money.
If you regularly generate reports in Crystal Reports with fields that contain long strings, you'll see that sometimes these fields overlap each other. This can prevent readers from being able to read some of the data embedded in the report. To improve visual clarity, edit the program's options to prevent this effect.
When Microsoft discontinued the Microsoft Money product in 2009, people were forced to seek out alternatives. The most popular option, Intuit's Quicken, allows import of Microsoft Money 2007 or 2008 files but has specific requirements for doing so. If you're using an earlier version of Money or no longer have the application, that could cause a problem.
When installing Crystal Reports on a different computer or when running specific projects, the program requires you to input a keycode. This keycode is unique to each Crystal Reports license. You can find your keycode on a computer running Windows XP by launching the Crystal Reports application and opening a specific menu.
By default, Crystal Reports automatically uses every data item supplied to it when compiling reports. Sometimes, however, you might want Crystal Reports to save a data item so that it can be exported to a third-party application, without using it during the report generation phase. You can do so by editing the data item's advanced properties.
Convenience, flexibility and “guideline-style” rules are part of the Quicken attraction. Categories -- a basic feature in every version of Quicken -- fill the bill in all three respects. Use standard Quicken categories to classify and assist in tracking common income and expenses and custom categories when built-ins do not adequately describe a component in a transaction or item in your budget. If your needs or the ways you track income or expenses changes, follow Quicken's recategorizing rules to ensure the categories you use are ones that work for you and your financial situation.
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 to a connection issue with your network, especially if you're connecting to your network wirelessly.
The program evaluation and review technique, or PERT, is a useful way to estimate project deadlines. Microsoft Project, an application that allows users to manage large-scale projects, incorporates a feature that lets you efficiently calculate the Z-value of a PERT project. The Z-value is a number which represents the probability of meeting a certain deadline. You can calculate the Z-value of a PERT project in Microsoft Project by using a dedicated toolbar.
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 of the potential causes you should review include checking the downloaded transactions tab, direct connect activation, bad data file and Internet connectivity.
QuickBooks Online provides an essential set of accounting tools inside your browser so you can maintain a bookkeeping business. You can have a small or large bookkeeping business and QuickBooks can handle all the companies and accounts that you manage. Some of the basic functions that you'll use account setup, entering historical data and reconciling transactions for all accounts.
Microsoft Project software provides computerized assistance for controlling project schedules; managing a budget; communicating project information; and organizing work and staff to keep the project on timetable. SPF for Microsoft Project refers to the Service Provision Fund Microsoft set up in Australia or to the Sender Policy Framework for protecting your email address from hackers.
Quicken's financial software is designed for everyone from your next-door neighbor to small business owners. Reflecting its marketing tagline, "Business Solutions," PenSoft gears its software and services toward "small to medium-sized organizations," according to Steven Phelan, who reviewed the company's offerings in August 2011 for CPA Practice Advisor.
Wild Apricot allows users to export financial transactions and records to an Intuit Interchange Format (IIF) file, which can then be imported into QuickBooks. This is a technically complicated procedure only recommended for people who have some programming experience. You can use this facility to export the customers and transaction lists from Wild Apricot into separate IIF files. In the case of transaction files, you will need to link transactions (such as invoices and payments) manually, by using the Customers menu in the Receive Payments window in QuickBooks.
Visual Sourcesafe (VSS) and StarTeam are software platforms that serve as control systems providing solutions for group software development projects. Visual Sourcesafe is owned by Microsoft and StarTeam is owned by Borland. Both platforms work as elaborate collaboration tools with centralized control management. Both VSS and StarTeam allow group developers to manage virtual libraries and develop software projects.
In the world of calendar programs, integration and compatibility is key. Both the Lotus Notes desktop client and the SharePoint online collaboration program have built-in calendar features and, though there is no default way to publish a Lotus Notes calendar event to your SharePoint calendar, there is an add-on that adds this functionality. Through the use of the Harmon.ie for SharePoint, Notes Edition add-on, you can publish any Lotus Notes calendar event to a SharePoint calendar directly through the Lotus Notes client.
Just as countries and armies gather and analyze intelligence to formulate plans of action, companies gather and analyze all the market data they can find in formulating business strategies. The company SAP produces a variety of software to help with business intelligence such as business objects, which help analysts examine data, and its Crystal reporting software, which helps analysts pass on their findings to company decision makers.
The Quicken personal finance software allows you to manage your budget and financial accounts from a single application. If you are a Navy Federal Credit Union member, you can manage your online services account through Quicken. To log in to your NFCU account from Quicken, you will need your NFCU access number, NFCU Login ID and NFCU password.
Although you may work hard to produce a product or service that customers are clamoring for, if you fail to properly manage your finances, your business is doomed to failure. Fortunately there are inexpensive, easy-to-use accounting software packages that can help you manage the flow of money from your customers, to your payroll, federal and state tax obligations, vendors and your bank. ZPAY and QuickBooks are two time-tested accounting packages for businesses that want to assert more control over their money.
Like a child who looks up and sees a cloud that resembles a face or animal, some companies look to the Internet cloud and see business opportunities. Instead of faces, they see the money to be made selling software as a service, termed SaaS, to small and large businesses. Netsuite and Aplicor are companies that provide cloud-based enterprise resource planning or ERP and customer relationship management or CRM services to business and governmental agencies.
While the art of Persian carpet-weaving goes back thousands of years, its knotting techniques, materials, dyes and motifs have remained relatively unchanged, according to Essie Sakai's book “Persian Rugs and Carpets.” Persia, however, changed hands and boundary lines throughout its long history, and was officially renamed Iran in 1935. Not all Oriental rugs are Persian -- carpets from surrounding regions, including Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan, are made with different techniques, use distinct materials and often incorporate different themes.
A member’s draw, similarly called an owner’s draw or partner’s draw, records the amount taken out of a company by one of its owners. QuickBooks records the draw in an equity account that also shows the amount of the owner’s investment and the balance of the owner’s equity. The draw is a way for an owner to receive money from the company without drawing a salary. But it shouldn’t be used for every type of business organization.
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 see Quicken Launcher appear in your system tray, it can be cause for concern if you do not understand its function. Quicken Launcher is a component of your Quicken application and has a purpose on your computer.
With so many options for QuickBooks accounting software customization, it can be confusing to tell the difference between business associates, customers and vendors. QuickBooks defines a vendor as someone from whom you purchase a product or service. It's up to you to further define and categorize vendors into types based on the needs of your business.
QuickBooks may crash when you close a company file or as you exit the software, possibly causing you to lose important data as it closes. Your QuickBooks software must be up to date to lower the amount of errors you receive. The host server must be too or QuickBooks might crash on exit. It's true that Windows 7 and QuickBooks are compatible; however, if you've just upgraded, something may go awry and cause your hardware or software to crash when it's closed.
The Microsoft Silverlight plug-in enables you to display multimedia files and applications directly in your Web browser. Microsoft regularly sends out updates to fix any issues and improve the application. However, if you recently installed an update for Silverlight and Quicken no longer opens on your system, you need to delete the update. Select the Uninstall a Program utility in Windows. After deleting the Silverlight update, install the latest updates for Quicken to keep it compatible with new updates from Microsoft.
When working on a project, being able to collaborate with team members could be the difference between completing it on time and struggling to finish it by the due date. With Microsoft SharePoint, you can collaborate on projects and ensure that they meet the standards necessary to be successful.
When you are managing a project with Microsoft Project, you view various tasks in the application window. If a task is no longer needed, you can cancel it, or inactivate the task. Microsoft Project uses strikethrough formatting through the name of an inactivated task to show its changed status. Text formatted with strikethrough has a horizontal line running through each word.
Quicken WillMaker Plus is a paid application developed by Nolo which allows its users to create a will, along with all other documents they wish to include in their estate plan. Nolo regularly releases updates and patches for its program to include new features or fix issues. Update your copy of the 2004 version of Quicken WillMaker Plus by using a specific feature.
In 2007, QuickBooks and Peachtree accounting software came out with new versions of their programs. If you have the chance to use either one of these software programs for your accounting needs, one may have more appropriate features for your business needs. Both of these pieces of software have more recent versions, but if you want something that's less expensive, one of these options could still get the job done.
Working with the personal finance program Quicken gives you the opportunity to track expenses and income in an organized way to stay on top of your finances. When you look at a list of transactions, the software gives you a few options to help you customize the information that you're viewing.
BlackBerry Desktop Manager is software that coordinates data with a BlackBerry smartphone. After Desktop Manager is installed and a BlackBerry device is connected to a computer via USB, users can back up or restore phone data and transfer media files. BlackBerry released software version 5.0.1 in 2010 for devices running version 4.1 or later. If a BlackBerry user is having difficulty installing version 5.0.1, troubleshooting involves checking system requirements in several key areas.
Microsoft Project is a tool for managing any sort of business project, including product planning. Whether you want to prep for a new product launch or retool your production schedule, MS Project helps map out the process and can adjust to unexpected developments. Production planning has different needs than other business projects, but MS Project is still a useful tool for the process.
