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December 29, 2006
Your Opinions, Please
Like most well-intentioned folks on the planet, I started out this year putting all of my receipts and banking statements directly into Quick Books or whatever the hell kind of imperfect software we bought after having worked SO DAMN HARD on taxes in early 2006 and resolving, "Never again!" to the "playing catch-up" routine with corporate finances, come tax time.
Cut to December 29th... I think I have imported online banking statements twice in 2006 (but I have print-outs to fill in the rest, of course) and that corporate tax deadline of March 15th is coming faster than I'd like, especially with as much casting work as I already have laid out for first quarter 2007.
So...
Do I *bother* putting all of this crap into the software or just do the old-fashioned pen-and-paper version that has worked so well (but that takes maddeningly longer to do each year, as you'd expect from a growing corporation)? I mean, I can see spending something like THREE STRAIGHT DAYS (and those are three straight Bonnie days with very little sleep) inputting data and then STILL having to do two weeks of my pen-and-paper stuff if the software sucks as much as I think it does.
*sigh*
When do I get to have one of those accountants to whose office you show up with boxes of receipts and a check for services (rather than one to whose office I have to show up with everything WAY organized)?
*stomp* *pout*
Posted by bonnie at December 29, 2006 8:29 AM
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When do I get to have one of those accountants to whose office you show up with boxes of receipts and a check for services (rather than one to whose office I have to show up with everything WAY organized)?
Bon, I'm thinkin you will get on of those accountants who sends their assistant to YOUR office twice a month to do all that organizing and the accountant shows up at your office for one week a year to do your year-end stuff. There.
Shoot for that.
Posted by: Susan Jones at December 29, 2006 9:27 AM
Bon,
I've used Quickbooks for all of my business accounting (and TurboTax for my tax preparations) for over 10 years. I'm not a naturally organized person; so I have to force myself to put everything into the computer every day/week/month. But, at the end of the year, the process is so much more simple that the old paper and pencil method!
Were it me in your shoes, I'd take however many days and put everything into the computer.
Be well,
Bob
Posted by: Bob Souer at December 29, 2006 6:18 PM
I'm totally not sure if this is helpful, but I think this is the gadget that I've seen advertised lately...supposedly does some of this stuff? I don't know anyone that actually has one, but it seems like a cool idea if it works like it's supposed to.
http://www.neatreceipts.com/home_main.htm
Posted by: Hannah at December 30, 2006 7:00 AM
Hey sista, your barking up the wring tree with me on this topic. If I can find my ass in the moring I'm doing well.
Posted by: Mary Carlisle at December 30, 2006 6:34 PM