It is more of a love/hate relationship, really, my affair with Quickbooks Remote Access.
Quickbooks is an accounting program the great majority of our small business clients use. In the past, I would get a backup of the client's Quickbooks file, restore it to my computer, make all my changes, and then give the client a list of journal entries to book.
Which of course they would not do, a fact I would only discover the following year when nothing rolled forward correctly and I could not tie to the prior year's tax return.
::sigh::
There are other ways to get the client file adjusted but suffice it to say none of them work on some clients. Enter Quickbooks Remote Access.
I can now log into the client's file remotely - access their computer while sitting at my computer - and when I am done, I am DONE. The real beauty of it is that while I am in the client's file, I can set it up so the system will not allow them to post earlier than a certain date like, say, the end of year I just wrapped up with a tidy little bow. HA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
The "hate" part of my love/hate relationship with Quickbooks Remote Access is having to deal with the time lag. The slower the client's computer, the longer the delay. It reminds me of the olden days when computers were new and their responses were slow but 'tis a cross I am happy to bear. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. Or something.
I am sure there is an appropriate Star Trek reference that applies.
Live long and pay as little tax as possible. Yeah, that's the one.
Tags: tax follies
