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  What To Do Before You Start Using Quickbooks There are a few steps you need to take before you begin using Quickbooks. This article will walk you through them. . . . keep reading How To Add a Hidden Account in Quickbooks (and Why) There are perfectly legitimate reasons you might want to "hide" an account in Quickbooks. This article explains some of these, and explains how to do it. . . . keep reading How to Convert your Quicken Data to Quickbooks If you use Quicken for your business accounting, you can convert it to Quickbooks. Here's how. . . . keep reading How to Be On Time Every Time Accounting is about more than money, in my book. It includes keeping track of all your resources and using them wisely. In this article, Dustin Wax of Lifehack.org gives some tips for getting wherever you need to be on time. . . . keep reading Financial Literacy April has been designated "Financial Literacy Month". Here are some of my thoughts on the topic. . . . keep reading More

  
  

  Create a Loan Amortization Schedule in Excel Watch over my shoulder as I create a custom loan amortization schedule in about 5 minutes. . . . keep reading Use Excel to Compute Loan Amounts & Easily Compare Options One of Excel's great features is the ability to compute loan amounts. In this video, I show how it's done and a huge benefit of using Excel versus a handheld financial calculator or online loan calculator. . . . keep reading How to Insert a Manual Line Break in an Excel Cell How to insert a manual line break in an Excel cell. In this video, I illustrate this technique. If you pay careful attention to the presentation of your printed spreadsheets, you'll want to check this out. . . . keep reading How to Hide Data in Excel There are several reasons you might want to "hide" data in your Excel spreadsheet. This video shows you how. . . . keep reading Microsoft Excel Shortcut Keys Here is a comprehensive list of Microsoft Excel keyboard shortcuts. These can save you a lot of time. There are a few that I use every time I open Excel. My advice: find the functions you use the most, then find the shortcuts for those functions. . . . keep reading More