How to Use KPIs to Improve Financial Health Key performance indicators (KPIs) can help you improve your financial health through strategic monitoring of metrics that help you understand the underlying stability of your business. Let’s dive in! What are KPIs and How Can They Improve Financial Health? KPIs help you monitor an intended result. We […]
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When working in QuickBooks Online (QBO), it’s essential to understand the difference between sales vs. income. These terms have specific meanings within the QuickBooks ecosystem that does not necessarily align with their broader real-world definitions. This blog post will help clarify these distinctions, explain their implications, and guide you through proper configuration and usage in
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Job-tracking, also known as job-costing, is a powerful method to categorize income and expenses related to specific customer jobs, projects, initiatives, grants, funds, or other temporary assignments. In QuickBooks Online (QBO), job-tracking allows businesses to gain deeper insights into their profitability status by tracking financial performance on a deeper level. Let’s explore the basics of
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Tracking Business Expenses: Why You Can’t Afford to Be Lax Tracking business expenses is often the last thing small business owners want to do. We see it all of the time: You’re making sales, revenue is up and while you used to monitor every dime that you spent when first opening your doors, you now
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How Profitability Analysis Helps Businesses Understand Financial Performance You run a business. Sales are coming in, and it can be easy to assume that since you can pay your bills, you’re in good financial health. But that may not be the case. A profitability analysis can provide some answers and help you better identify: Trends
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Managing a business with multiple locations, properties, or regions comes with a unique set of challenges. From tracking income and expenses across different entities to understanding the financial position of each location, maintaining accurate and detailed records is crucial. QuickBooks Online (QBO) offers Location Tracking as a powerful feature to help businesses categorize and analyze
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Class tracking is a powerful feature in QuickBooks Online (QBO) that allows businesses to categorize income and expenses according to different parts of their operations. This feature is useful for analyzing profitability across different areas within each account, such as departments, properties, product lines, service lines, or even manufacturers. Here’s an in-depth look at how
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How to Create a Smart Business Budget for 2025 Inadequate management and financial hurdles are two of the most common reasons over 595,000 small businesses close each year. A smart business budget can mean the difference between meeting KPIs and goals and being unable to cover overhead expenses. What is a smart business budget and
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Law Firm Bookkeeping: Setting Your Books Straight in 2025 Proper law firm bookkeeping ensures accurate, error-free books, helps you stay in compliance, and enables you to plan for the future. If you’re one of the 70% of small businesses that don’t have an accountant or bookkeeper, you need to address the common issues firms face
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Categorizing transactions is one of the most essential components of managing financial activity in QuickBooks Online (QBO). Advanced categorization gives you many options to keep your records well-organized, and ensures that your company’s financial data is recorded in a way that is both accurate and useful. Although QuickBooks offers multiple ways to categorize transactions, it’s
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