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Tracking Smith Barney investment accounts in Quickbooks

David M. Doolin, PhD — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:43:31 +0000

Short answer: Smith Barney’s statements are confusing. Longer answer… here’s what’s in progress: Created the following structure: 7410 Investment income (Other Income account) 7411 Long term gain 7412 Short term gain This solves part of the problem. I may need to create accounts for holding stock purchase, money funds, CDs, etc. I think each of [...]

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Tracking Smith Barney investment accounts in Quickbooks

Quickbooks Epiphany: A wannabe operating system, not an application

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:00:25 +0000

Really, Quickbooks wants to be an operating system. You open up Quickbooks, it’s assumption is that your time now belongs to Quickbooks, and you should not be interacting with other programs. Thus: Relentless full screen dominance. I’ve been using the Premier trial version to upgrade to the latest file format for QB Pro for MacOSX. [...]

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Quickbooks Epiphany: A wannabe operating system, not an application

Reconciling Quickbooks $0.0 opening balance

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:21:52 +0000

Note: This article was first published on Oct 28, 2007 @ 19:21. The material is still good. I’m republishing to bring it forward for tax season, and for testing the behavior of RSS on republished material. Undoing multiple reconciliations in Quickbooks may roll the internal opening balance for a reconciliation to $0.0, despite whatever value [...]

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Reconciling Quickbooks $0.0 opening balance

Actions you can take that help your personal economy and make you feel good

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:27:57 +0000

For a while, I was posting regularly on financial and economic matters. The need for that passed as the news became common knowledge. That is, the problems became real for ordinary people, not just for nutjobs screaming from the fringe. But it’s not over yet. Even if the recession is officially over, the recovery will [...]

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Actions you can take that help your personal economy and make you feel good

Outsource payment accounting in Quickbooks

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:10:31 +0000

Quickbooks accounting for outsourced work can be categorized two ways: Subcontractor invoices directly. Subcontractor invoices a broker, who invoices you. Subcontractors who bill directly are easy: enter their invoices as bills balanced against Direct Cost expenses, proceed as usual. The difficulty here is with brokers who want to act as a sort of “bank” by [...]

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The lighter side of economic catastrophe — disaster humor

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:12:44 +0000

It’s true, laughter really is the best medicine. Here are some links I found funny. Tragic, but still funny. You know what they say: “It’s always funny until somebody gets hurt. Then it’s f***ing hilarious!” The oxymoron index climbs, with my new favorite “voluntary regulation.” Reality show, “Weekend at Bernanke’s:” Ben and Hank dress up [...]

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The lighter side of economic catastrophe — disaster humor

What I have been reading with sick fascination for the last 18 months

David M. Doolin, PhD — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:36:55 +0000

Frankly, I didn’t really believe all these horrible economic predictions I have been reading over the last couple of years. I certainly didn’t believe with enough conviction to face my peers and colleagues with a “Hey, you might want to consider retrenching your portfolio. Depression coming.” The few times I did mention it, didn’t go [...]

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What I have been reading with sick fascination for the last 18 months

Nonplussed (Banking)

David M. Doolin, PhD — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:32:42 +0000

I’m not going to rant anymore. Here are some bemused observations instead. So-called online banking is a lot more work than it’s worth, especially if you don’t have more than a few dozen transactions per month. In the time I have spent this evening dealing with download capabilities of 3 different banks and Quickbook’s peculiar [...]

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Nonplussed (Banking)

paradigm change

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:12:37 +0000

My bank purchased sitekey. So what was going to be a simple 5 minute check for balance turns into something where I need to plug in the printer or write stuff down. Because I just won’t remember the sitekey details. Sure, I could have it emailed to me when I forget, but that usually requires [...]

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Quickbooks

David M. Doolin, PhD — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:51:30 +0000

Thrashes my disk A bully, muscles other applications out of it’s way to enforce my attention via modal dialog boxes. Treats my time like it’s garbage Loathesome, makes me want to uninstall it and never, ever, use it. Commandeers my computer. Forces a restart. Doesn’t matter the hell I am doing that is frankly more [...]

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Online financial idiocy

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:49:02 +0000

The bank where I have my personal checking will allow approximately 60 rolling window for downloading financial data electronically. Anything after that, they provide convenient pdf files, of images of the SCANNED PAPER STATEMENT!!! Paypal, same thing: rolling 60 day window. My business bank allows a 6 month window. But get this: you can’t get [...]

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Online financial idiocy