Spend a little time to become a Quick Book Pro.   The possibilities are endless.   In fact, Dashboard Accounting has put together a five part series to give you some “bookkeeping help”.  Here are a few more tips to speed up your quick book accounting. 

• How often have you worked in QuickBooks and needed to add up numbers? Windows and QuickBooks both have calculators that you can pull up, but you really don’t need them.   If you are in an amount field on a check or other transaction, just pressing the number keys followed by a mathematical symbol (+, -, /, *) you will pull up the calculator. You can continue to enter numbers and math functions until you are done.  Press the Enter key to enter the amount into the number field. If you press the tab key you will lose the amount.

• Keyboard Tips Working with Dates.  When in a date field there are many ways to change the date. Of course you can type the date or you can pull up the calendar but there may be faster ways to get to a specific date.

1. Changing by a Few Days. If you only want to change a few days try using the Plus (+) or Minus (-) key to move forward or backwards. You can hold the key down and change dates quite quickly but I generally recommend this for a change of a few days.
2. Changing by Weeks. You can go back to the first day of the week by using the letter W and forward to the last day of the week by using the letter K.
3. Changing by Months. You can go back to the first day of the month by using the letter M and forward to the last day of the month by using the letter H.

Efforts spent becoming a QuickBooks Pro will help you decrease the time required to complete your bookkeeping.  Another way to obtain bookkeeping help is to contact Dashboard Accounting, our expertise allows us to offer very affordable solutions to your business.