Why pay your hard earned money to someone else when you should be doing it and gain a better handle on your finances and understand how your business is really doing
Would you like to and get your businesss financial records (in Windows or Mac) organized for this years taxes Would you like to complete your tax return in hours instead of days Do you lie awake at night counting sheep instead of dollars wondering where all your hard earned money went because you dont understand the "scary" financial side of your business
Has your business grown to a point where you need to install accounting and bookkeeping software like QuickBooks (or even Quicken in some cases) because paper records and shoe boxes arent going to work anymore Started a new store and need QuickBooks Point of Sale (POS) software installed and configured to track customers and sales or inventory or their Cash Register Do you understand the new destination sales tax rules that require you to charge sales tax based on where you ship the product, sell it, or provide taxable services within Washington State
Do you wish you could have a better understanding of what all those $, and numbers really mean in your software programs reports Would you like to be able to push a button on your screen and get a report on how much profit and loss your company made this month, quarter, or year to date
Would you like to stop keeping track of your receipts in a big manila file folder, shoe box, or file drawer
Do you feel that you are paying your accountant too much due to your lack of financial management or office organization Work that you should be doing instead Or at least some of it
Do you wish someone could give you a few tips based on their experience as an operations and office manager and Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with Intuits Point of Sale and Enterprise additional certification so you can can make QuickBooks (not Quick Books) or Quicken including Home and Business or Premier work for you, instead of the other way around
As "Dr QuickBooks & Quicken", I make house calls (my rates are at the bottom of this post) to work with small businesses including start-ups (those angel investors expect accurate books, why not deliver them) that want financial management (not manglement) to keep track of their business finances and who want to learn how to use their bookkeeping software effectively to save time (and hair). Thats all I do. If you want a bookkeeper, please go to the another ad or ask me for a referral to the one I refer my clients to.
My services include the following:
* Helping you pick the right Quicken or QuickBooks or other accounting and bookkeeping software program for your business at up to 20% off (for QB)and converting company files from other software programs;
* Set-up your initial Chart of Accounts I (including mapping them to the most likely tax lines so you can do your own taxes);
* Setting up service, inventory, other charges like shipping or delivery, discounts, payments, and sales taxes (did you know that you have to charge local sales tax (there are over 300 in Washington State) based on where the product or services is delivered effective July 1, 2008 and how to import this information into QuickBooks) that this rate went up .5% on April 1, 2009 in certain cities and counties, and other items to use to create your invoices, estimates, or sales receipts, classes like different locations, and creating and adjusting Inventory;
* Job Costing and Estimates and how to convert Estimates into Invoices;
* Bank, Petty Cash, Credit Card, and other Account Reconciliation;
* Set up and interface QuickBooks for On-line Banking for real-time knowledge or where you stand with your bank and credit card accounts;
* Bank and Credit Card download including matching up net CC payments when the credit card processing company takes them out of the payment you receive;
* Showing you how to design your own customized Invoices, Estimates, and Sales Receipts including the proper way to receive and deposit payments;
* State B&O and Sales Taxes for the City & State (Monthly, Quarterly or Annually) including the proper way to pay them from within the program;
* Online Payroll through QuickBooks;
* Payroll Taxes (State Unemployment, Worker’s Comp, Federal Forms 940 and 941/944, W-3 and W-2s, and the new City of Seattle Head Tax) and the correct way to pay your payroll liabilities;
* Online payment for the above tax forms;
* Selecting which vendors must give you a W9 form and which fields in your chart of accounts qualify for a 1099 Form ;
* QuickBooks Tutoring and Training one-on-one for you;
* Preparation of management financial reports including profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow predictions, job costs, and employee productivity (latter requires a special set up);
My company is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Business. I have a City of Seattle business license and the company is registered with the State of Washington Department of Revenue and the Secretary of State (as a corporation.)
I am a former securities Arbitrator and a current member of the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program, the Intuit (the folks who make TurboTax, Quicken, and QuickBooks to name a few products) TurboTax, Quicken, and Accountants Inner Circle which advises the company on ways to improve their products (I recently identified a bug in the QuickBooks Pro 2008 program and suggested a way to fix it) and make them more consumer friendly (gasp!) and Biznik - the local effective social business networking group of over 10,250 local members and is free to join and post your no charge profile to promote your business.
I have taught "Ten Things You Need to Do to Set Up Your Start Ups Books Correctly" at the Renton Almost Free Biz School and accounting and bookkeeping principles at the Six Hour Start Up Conference. I also was the subject of an article Spotlight on a QuickBooks Instructor: Teaching Small Businesses to Fish on the TeachStreet Blog. TeachStreet is a web site that brings together local teachers and inquiring students.
Because I come to you, I offer you three choices to use my services. If you only need me to come in for an hour or two to check your books or do a basic set up or a quick training in a problem area, I only cost $120 ah hour with a one hour minimum. If you want to save money, you can hire me for $295 for a consecutive three hour session, a savings of $65 off my standard rate (I find that most people need that three hour block of time to begin to basically learn the program or have their company file set up or checked) and $90 an hour thereafter so you can count dollars instead of sheep and learn how to fish (or make Tofu if you are a vegan) for yourself. Or you can pay $1,195 for unlimited training and in person or telephone support in a year for one person in your company for QuickBooks Pro or Premier if you are not using the latters advanced functions.
Why deal with the hassle of fighting traffic and the cost of gas and your lost billable time to get to a class (assuming you can get into one in todays economy as other people have the same idea), have the class go at the slowest persons pace, have strangers find out about your business problems if you ask questions in class, and not deal with the issues you want to learn about or address when I will come to you How much is your time worth to you More than I cost, I bet.
Payment is expected by check, cash, PayPal, Revolution Money Exchange (Steve Chase of AOLs latest venture - its free to send and receive money), Google CheckOut, or MasterCard/Visa at the time of service. I may be willing to barter.
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Personalized One on One QuickBooks Training, Classes, Instruction, Courses, Seminars, Teaching, Coaching, Private Lessons, Help, Assistance, and Tutoring in Greater Seattle and Western Washington State to Get Your Finances in Order
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Location: Greater Seattle: Your Place or Wedgwood
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