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Courtesy North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer ServicesConsumers shop fresh produce at a roadside stand in North Carolina.North Carolina had a wet, cold winter that extended into early spring so fresh produce is running at least 10 days later than usual, said North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler.
"It was extremely wet a month ago and now it's dry and hot and we need rain," said Kendall Hill, co-owner of Tull Hill Farms, Kinston, N.C., and president of the North Carolina Agribusiness Council, Cary, N.C.
Weather issues
Tull Hill has had to abandon some of its lettuce because of tip burn, due to the high temperatures. On the other hand, the low temperatures and wet weather have delayed the planting and growth of the sweet potato plants.
Curtis Smith, operator at T.C. Smith Produce, Seven Springs, N.C., said "the weather has been topsy-turvy and up and down and that's the way it's been all spring."
At T.C. Smith, the cool spring has delayed strawberries by up to 10 days.
Almost everything is behind schedule about two weeks at Clayton Rawl Farms, Lexington, S.C., according to Chris Rawl, president of Clayton Rawl Farms, and it could be longer on some crops.
Steven Ceccarelli, owner of Farm Fresh Produce, Faison, N.C., said that the plants become confused with the inconsistent weather.
"We've had very warm and very cold days and that tricks the plant," Ceccarelli said. "One moment it thinks it's about to die and one moment it thinks it's kicking back up for regrowth."
Farm Fresh has had complications with cabbage bolting and expects to lose about 50% of the crop.
Things are also behind schedule at Jackson Farming Co., Autryville, N.C. Matt Solana, vice president of operations and supply chain, said that the late winter with low temperatures, heavy rains, high winds and cloud cover affected its farms from Florida to North Carolina.
Jackson Farming normally starts strawberries around April 9 and the first harvest this year is April 24. The late winter and wet fields kept Jackson Farming from planting at normal times.
Even though things are behind schedule, Solana anticipates a good season after last year's 40 inches of rain.
"It took a huge toll and we lost 40% of the melon crop in North Carolina so anything would be an improvement this year," Solana said.
Although dealing with the cabbage issue, Ceccarelli said that the bell peppers are handling the inclement weather and that this looks like the best bell pepper crop Farm Fresh has had in the last five years.
James Sharp, grower and salesman at Southeastern Growers Association, Kenly, N.C., also has good news to report. Although they had a lot of rain, watermelons are on schedule for harvesting around July 9.
"So far the crop looks clean and seems to be growing really well," said Sharp.
Troxler said that the state needs the weather to cooperate but that one of the great things about farming is that "you can always enter a new growing season with enthusiasm and hope and we're always optimistic this time of year."
Tomato and melon markets
Tomato prices are down in North Carolina.
Doug Patterson, co-owner and vice president of Patterson Farm, Inc., China Grove, N.C., said he hopes tomato prices start increasing before Patterson Farm starts picking.
"Right now there are just too many tomatoes out there are they are selling too cheap," he said.
The cantaloupe and watermelon season in Georgia looks to be about 10 days behind schedule, said Jackson Farming's Solana. Georgia's late start time could potentially run into the first part of North Carolina's season.
"What is going to drive the pricing is how much of Georgia's product carries in because that could deflate the market to a degree, based on what our normal pricing would be," he said.
Solana said that as North Carolina reaches its peak in mid-July on cantaloupes and watermelons, pricing should be in the normal range as Georgia and South Carolina should be finishing.
Although it's too early to tell what the market has in store, everyone is positive about the season. "As long as Mother Nature doesn't interfere, we anticipate a high quality and good inventory crop this year," said Laura Kornegay, marketing director at Nash Produce, Nashville, N.C.


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Bravest Warriors issue #3 is out today! Maybe you would enjoy it? I wrote it and it is about a bunch of space hero teens trying to save a planet of clowns from horror movie monsters, basically.
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Moody Toons
By Alec Wilkinson
ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF POPULAR CULTURE about television animator Genndy Tartakovsky and his popular Cartoon Network series, "Dexter's Laboratory" and "Samack"… "Samurai Jack" is moody and atmospheric and hardly ever has gags. It takes place in the future, to which Jack has been banished by Aku, a demon whose body is long and supple and whose eyebrows are little crescents of fire that burn even underwater… "Samurai Jack" is not science fiction, and it's not romance. "Samurai Jack" doesn't resemble any other cartoon on television. To begin with, Jack almost never speaks. Tartakovsky thought that the action shows he watched as a boy contained too much talking, and had plots that were needlessly complicated. Tartakovsky is portly. Tartakovsky's parents were Soviet Jews and they worried that anti-Semitism would shadow the lives of Genndy and his brother, Alex, who is two years older, so they emigrated in 1976… Each day, before leaving for school in America, Tartakovsky watched cartoons, and on Saturdays he would get up early, study the listings of cartoons in the paper, and plan a schedule for the morning… Tartakovsky finished high school in Chicago. Since there was no local animation industry to speak of, he decided to study advertising art and to make animated films as a hobby. He enrolled at an art-and-film school in downtown Chicago called Columbia College. At Columbia, he had a teacher named Stan Hughes, who collected 16-mm. prints of classic cartoons. Tartakovsky used the school's editing machines and advanced the cartoons by hand one frame at a time, and then he drew each frame, paying attention to how the characters moved and how the animators achieved their effects. His closest friend at Columbia was an animator named Rob Renzetti. Renzetti had applied to the California Institute of the Arts, in Los Angeles, and hadn't got in. One day, he showed Tartakovsky the school's catalogue. "It was like opening the Bible," Tartakovsky recalled… Tells how he attended the school for two years, and eventually got a job with Hanna-Barbera Studios at what would become the Cartoon Network… Writer describes a writer's meeting for "Samurai Jack" and a single glum episode of the series… "Samurai Jack" is also being made into a feature-length movie by New Line Cinema, with actors instead of animated figures, and Tartakovsky is writing the screenplay…
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Do you typically pay taxes on your completed home for the year it is constructed? Both my builder and banker live in the township in which we're building. They both have told me that the township won't be very fast to assess the completed property and that I most likely will pay only the vacant lot taxes for the first year. What's your experience with this? We're looking to finish construction in February. If they're right, we'd be getting nearly a year break from taxes on the house. |
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We are in CA and 2 years ago built a large guest house. The tax assessor personally rang our doorbell the day after the COO was signed. It was summer, the kids were home and I was in my robe about to take a shower ... I not so nicely told him that since they had our name/number at our local City Hall, the least he could have done was called to make an appointment. Took his card and closed the door! |
Tax assessors and real estate taxes work differently in every state. In my state we pay our taxes in arrears. That means in 2014 I pay my taxes for charges and assessments from 2013. It sounds like that is what happens in your state also. All re-assessments must be completed by the end of March here on a yearly basis. New construction is assessed when it is completed or soon after. Only your tax assessor can tell you when it would be assessed. Your builder and banker are probably correct, but I would make a call to confirm this. |
Check with your town to be sure. As rrah said, it will vary state to state and in our case, county to county. Where we live, assessments are as of April 1. Taxes are due twice per year (June 1 and December 1) and each of those are for 3 months in arrears and 3 months in advance. |
We had a year where we paid for the vacant lot but lived in the house. Actually, I think it was two years since properties are only assessed every few years here. However, clearly every area is different. |
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Comparing QuickBooks Desktop with QuickBooks Online
Intuit is placing an increasing emphasis on QuickBooks Online, but it isn't a product that all accounting professionals are familiar with. Many of us have been working with QuickBooks Desktop (for Windows) for years and that is our comfort zone. Intuit keeps on trying to push us out of that comfort zone. My viewpoint on this is that whether we like it or not, QuickBooks Online is going to be a big player in our future, so we better get to know it! Let's start with a simple comparison of features between the two products.
They Are Different
Usually whenever someone asks me to compare these two products my stock answer is "don't compare them, they are different products and they fit different situations". Then I follow that up with "analyze the client's needs first, THEN decide which tool is the best one to solve their situation". If you think about it, though, these are conflicting statements. "Don't compare" but then "choose between them" – how can I choose if I don't compare?
I don't have a problem with someone listing the features and functions of the two products, and then using that to choose the right product to use. My "don't compare" idea is more of a statement that even though these two products share the name "QuickBooks", they aren't related. QuickBooks Online isn't a copy of QuickBooks Desktop that has been web-enabled. They are different products with totally different database structures and approaches to solving problems, even though both were developed in-house by Intuit. I sometimes think that if these were named "ABC Desktop Accounting" and "XYZ Online Accounting" that people wouldn't be complaining about the differences.
So, you look at your client and see what they are doing, what kind of situation they have. Is everyone located in one office or do they work from multiple locations? Are they inventory-centric and need a lot of stuff like barcoding, or are they service oriented? Questions like that, which help you get a picture of the client. Then pick the right tool for the job (I say the same thing about the old argument over which is better, PC or Mac).
Let's Compare
So here is a look at what these two products share, and how they are different. This isn't a comprehensive list of every feature at this time – the products are a moving target, and it is a complicated process to build these lists – but it is a start.
The basis for my information is a list compiled by Woody Adams of Radio Free QuickBooks (I think he works for Intuit on the side…). Look for the RFQ_QBMatrix link on the tips page. Woody has given me permission to draw on this info for this article. He updates the document periodically, so you might want to check there every once in awhile. I'm going to take his list and organize it in a different way.
Before we jump in, here are a few points I'd like to make:
- When I refer to QuickBooks Desktop I'm just talking about the Windows version, not the Mac version.
- In all cases I'm referring to the US versions of the products.
- Both products have a number of add-on options available from third party vendors. I'm not including the features found in those. Note that at this time QuickBooks Desktop has more add-on products than QuickBooks Online, but that is changing rapidly.
- I'm not including features that are found in the optional Advanced Inventory feature for QuickBooks Enterprise. I consider this to be the same as an add-on product, since it is only available for a significant additional fee.
- To try to keep this simple, I'm not going to get into all the variations that we see with QuickBooks. I'll ignore, to a degree, QuickBooks Desktop Pro and QuickBooks Online Simple Start. I'm not getting into the differences between the various "Editions" of Premier (or Enterprise). The matrix can be really complicated, with some features found in Enterprise but not Premier, or found only in Accountant (which is Premier level) but in all Enterprise versions, and so forth. I'm trying to simplify things a bit.
Features That Are Common To All
Let's start with some easy stuff. Here are features that you will find in both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, although many times the specific implementations may differ.
- Accept credit card payments from customers
- Audit trail to track changes to transactions and lists – Note that QB Online has an activity log that also tracks user login/out
- Bank reconciliation
- Company Snapshot
- Custom fields – varies on the number, and how you can use them, so you have to look at the specifics
- Express setup of QB company file
- Multi user access (different limits to the number)
- Multiple windows
- Online banking
- Payroll (additional fees may be required)
- Print Bills
- Recurring Billing / Memorized Transactions
- Zoom into details from reports
- Document management – is much more limited in Online
- Budgets (not in QB Online Essentials)
- Class Tracking (not in QB Online Essentials)
- Create Estimates (not in QB Online Essentials)
- Prepare and print 1096, 1099 (not in QB Online Essentials)
- Job costing – although this is quite limited in QB Online
- Purchase Orders (not in QB Online Essentials)
- Invoices
- Time tracking and billing by customer (not in QB Online Essentials)
- Reversing journal entries
- Memorized reports
In addition, there are some features that are only found in the Accountant versions of both products.
- Accountant Center
- Adjusted Trial Balance (also in Enterprise)
- Client file dashboard , File Manager kind of stuff
- Set accounting period
These features will be found in most QB Desktop products, but only in the Accountant version on the QB Online side.
- See and Undo previous reconcile
- Client Data Review – some portions available in non accountant desktop if you log in using external accountant, features differ between online and desktop
- Comparative balance sheet and P&L
- Adjusting journal entries – only in Enterprise on the desktop side
- Voided/deleted transaction report
Features Found in QuickBooks Desktop but not in QuickBooks Online
OK, so the QuickBooks Desktop product has been around longer, and in the past it has gotten a lot more attention from the developers. Sometimes I think of the differences between Microsoft Word (which has EVERYTHING but you might not use it all) and Google Docs (simpler, has the basics, but not all the extra stuff). Do you need all these things? If not, QuickBooks Online is an option. If you need them, however, you either need QuickBooks Desktop, or you need to find an add-on to QuickBooks Online.
- Average Cost inventory valuation
- Balance Sheet by Class
- Batch Invoicing
- Batch Timesheet Entry
- Billable Time and Expense preferences
- Billing rate level
- Business Planner
- Forecasting
- Calendar
- Change orders on Estimates
- Collections center
- Condense data file – but it isn't clear to me if you actually would need this in QuickBooks Online?
- Available Quantity in Inventory
- Customer Snapshot
- Convert estimate to a purchase order or sales order
- Advanced Excel export that can update existing exported reports
- Industry specific reporting (lots and lots of industry specific reports here)
- Inventory assembly items, Bills of Material, the ability to build assemblies
- Inventory Center
- Lead Center
- Fixed Asset Manager
- Mileage tracking
- Multiple currencies
- Multiple ship to addresses for Vendors
- One click transactions (pay bill from bill, create credit memo from invoice, etc.)
- Price Levels
- Progress Invoicing/billing
- Receive partially against a purchase order
- Report Favorites
- Report – collapse rows
- Share report templates with Intuit community
- Inventory – reorder/rebuild points
- Shipping Manager
- Sales Orders
- Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet
- Transaction History Panel
- Units of Measure
One interesting difference is the ability to give someone a copy of a file that they can look at (like an audit) that isn't your real copy. In some cases you can say "we don't need the 'accountant's copy' kind of feature in QuickBooks Online" (or things like Send General Journal Entries) since the accountant can easily log in to my QuickBooks Online account. In other cases there may be times when you want to give a copy of your file to someone that is totally separate (IRS audits, perhaps?), which is more complicated with QuickBooks Online.
Moving up the line, here are some features found only in QuickBooks Enterprise.
- Auto price markup
- Default classes with class tracking
- Enhanced Item Receiving, to split receipt from bill
- Advanced find/select of items
- Journal entries, list of previous entries (also found in Accountant)
- ODBC access for reporting
- Auto purchase orders
- QuickBooks Statement Writer (also found in Accountant)
- Working Trial Balance (also in Accountant)
- Batch Enter Transactions (also in Accountant)
Features Found in QuickBooks Online but not QuickBooks Desktop
It goes both ways – QuickBooks Online has features that don't exist in QuickBooks Desktop!
- Remote access – you can do this with QuickBooks Desktop but you need an additional software product or use QuickBooks Hosting (at a higher price)
- Auto Send Reports – reports or report groups can be scheduled to send automatically
- Automatic upgrades – this is both a good and a bad feature, with QuickBooks Online you are almost always running the most up to date version (whether you want to or not)
- Company Scorecard
- Delayed charges/billing – enter charges to be billed later
- Income list/transaction center
- Invoice automation – automatically create invoice from unbilled activity
- More than one A/R or A/P account per journal entry
- Location tracking, a secondary level of class tracking (QB Online Plus only)
- FIFO Inventory valuation (available in QuickBooks Enterprise but only with the additional cost Advanced Inventory feature)
There Are More Differences
I'm sure that this isn't an exhaustive list of differences – please feel free to point out others! I'll admit that I'm still learning about QuickBooks Online, so I can be missing things.
This comparison list also doesn't highlight other aspects that are different between the two products. I hope to be able to point out more of these kinds of things in future articles. For example, both products integrate with Intuit PaymentNetwork (which I didn't point out, since it is essentially an add-on feature), but there are big differences in how it is implemented on each side. The workflow is VERY different, and in this case you may find that the feature is much easier to use (at this time) in QuickBooks Online than in QuickBooks Desktop.
I hope that this serves as a starting point for understanding the differences between QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online. You need to understand both products if you are going to make good decisions about which product to use or recommend.
Again, my thanks to Woody Adams of Radio Free QuickBooks for the great information that he has compiled (and is updating).
Category: Cloud Accounting, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Tips/Tricks
About the Author (Author Profile)
Charlie Russell is the founder of CCRSoftware. He's been involved with the small business software industry since the mid 70's, and remembers releasing his first commercial accounting software product when you had a one-floppy disk drive system, loading the program from one floppy and then replacing that with the other floppy to hold the data. He has a special interest in inventory and manufacturing software for small businesses. Charlie is a Certified Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor with additional certifications for QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Enterprise. He also is a Xero Certified Partner. Visit his CCRSoftware web site for information about his QuickBooks add-on products. Charlie can be reached at [email protected] He is also the author of the California Wildflower Hikes blog Connect with Charlie at GoogleComments (73)
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Charlie: Great article (as usual). It is so difficult to learn a product when you don't have occasion to use it much. But I'd like to add to your list two features that I am aware of that QB Online does better than desktop.
One is an invoice format that provides a "mini-statement" that is very useful. In the invoice header section, QBO shows the balance as of the previous invoice plus any payments received. The second feature is the way on-line banking is implemented. Any cleared transactions automatically show up in QBO for review without having to log on to the bank and initiate a download. You never miss any activity.
Reverse Journal Entry is now in there.
Memorized reports are in QBO too.Not sure how I missed those, sorry.
Charlie, when I read your comparison it seems QuickBooks online isn't as bad as my experience has been. You compare many of the features but there are a few things that my office has continued to struggle with using QuickBooks online. The first and foremost is the ability to have multiple forms open at one time. Your list states "multiple windows" can be used in the online version however I have never been able to activate this feature and it makes me think it is refering to having multiple companies at one time (or I would love for someone to tell me how to get multiple windows at the same time). The overall control has been lost by the accountant in many areas of the online version – payroll being the prime example. It is very difficult to make corrections or changes in payroll for quarterly processing or any other payroll processing. Speaking of payroll… a hard lesson learned. If you have employees set up on salary you absolutely can not adjust their hours as it will adjust their rate of pay. I work with many organizations that have salaried employees yet still use QB to track their hours. This has created a huge debacle for one company and they have employees that were overpaid which we are now attempting to correct. My list can go on and on with the problems of QB online. I realize it is the direction of the future but I certainly hope the developers of QB are listening to the accountants because there are some real problems. Our firm has completely stopped supporting users of QuickBooks online and in the past week have had two clients using online come to us begging for help to untangle their mess. We agreed if they agreed to get on a desktop version. PS – the cost of the online version is outrageous. QuickBooks continues to nickel and dime the small business to the point they won't be able to afford any sort of financial management software.
Hi Heather, I am considering Quickbooks obline. Never used Quickbooks before at all. It is for a construction based business. I just got off the phone with a sales rep from QB & off course they geer you towards the online version & the most expensive, which seems to be about $80 montly before taxes…thenn towards the end of the conversation I was asking about payroll & find out there is an addition $1.50 fee per employee per month, which can add up to an addition $20 – $30+ per month. Are there any other fees that you know of. Is it safe to say that If you had 30 employees the price would be under $150 per month…what other nickel & diming is there? Thank you.
We switched to QBO last year and are in processes of moving back to desktop. What a nightmare! The program is okay, after you get past all of the limitations, but what I found to be most annoying is the billing. They have over-billed our company EVERY month! I call the customer service and they "fix" the problem…then I check my statement the next month and they have over-billed again! How frustrating!! I also do not fully trust the reports, such as P&L, I can check the values, log out, then back in and the numbers are different – with no one else logged in… QBO is not a reliable accounting software…There is no option to run a report that shows current inventory with retail price (what good is that??)…not to mention the risk of cyber attacks.
No thanks, I'm sticking to desktop from here on out.
Great Article….Thanks…
Hi Charlie – thank you for this – we are just starting now to use QBO in Australia, the global team is out at the moment doing a roadshow around the country and we were happy to see a few updates such as the auto send reports and the features in the Accountant edition. We also have now an Integrated inventory solution – SOS Inventory as well as an integrated payroll solution which is helpful. Of course our desktop product is quite different from the US but the comparison is very helpful
Charlie, thanks for a great article. I'm a huge fan of QuickBooks Online because it suits our client base of doctors & dentists. The overnight download of all the banking transactions has been a game-changer for us. It keeps my clients (and me) up to date on their business. In 30-60 minutes a week they classify the transactions and avoid having to pay our staff to enter all their info. We have access to current info for tax planning and analysis any time we need it, their information is available to them anywhere there is internet and it is secure (no more worrying about backups!) and updated regularly. For around $20/month (with Pro Advisor discount) it's a bargain for everyone.
Two things I hate in QB Online:
1) When you delete an account in the Chart of Accounts, it does not go away. It still shows but with (deleted) after the name. What genius thought this was a good idea?
2) There does not seem to be a way to get all reports to print without the zero accounts, except to customize every time you compile it. The standard balance sheet list all accounts, even with the (deleted) accounts with zero balances. Looks terrible. You have to customize the report every time to make the zero accounts go away.
The default should be with no zero balance accounts, and you would have to customize to see them, should you ever need to. They have it backwards.-
On #2, you might want to think about memorizing your balance sheet with the customizations so you don't have to do that every time
The few clients that I have using QBO do not test the limits very much. However, I struggle greatly with the payroll module! You cannot set up payroll items as easily as the desktop and until recently couldn't adjust a paycheck. There still is a lot to be desired especially with quarterly payroll taxes and minor adjustments necessary.
Thanks Charlie! Great article! After getting certified in QB Online and hearing about Intuit's push in that direction, I committed to giving it a try. I agree that some of the functions earlier poster mentioned are great (auto-downloading, Income List), but I have to echo Heather's frustrations with (deleted) issues, very misleading. In addition, here are my own frustrations so far- no Custom Summary reports (difficult with my law firm clients re: Client Retainer summaries), no Other Names list (why does everybody have to be a vendor!) and lastly, the inability to edit a time entry on the invoice without affecting the original time entry. Again, my law firm clients and my service-based clients often edit their invoices before sending, whether it be rounding the time or editing the text. But they want the original time entry left untouched for payroll. Such a big difference to desktop where we have great control at the invoice level! Anyone else found this to be frustrating?
Great article, having been a desktop user for sometime I switched to the online version in late 2012.
I really like it, as I'm out and about teaching I can access my students accounts via the iPhone app, record any payments as and when they happen rather than waiting for when I get home.
I was really worried about making the switch, but for me it's been a good choice. The only downside is that in the UK we can't convert our company files so essentially had to start again.
Just converted a client to the QBO and was shocked to discover you can't customize an invoice with a number of days column like you can in the desktop version. You can have rate and quantity, but not number of days. Seems like such a basic function of invoicing. Client now wants to convert back to the desktop version. What a waste of everyone's time.
Charlie, your list of QBO features included working with the most current version (whether you want to or not)…which sort of edges into another feature to consider: server downtime.
QBO users have experienced some rediculously long server outages in the past–the longest about 2 days, if I recall correctly. (If Intuit were any other provider of Cloud-based services, with competitors offering the same services, QBO would have died a swift death due to users leaving in droves.)
QBO is like all other Cloud-based products in that the big advantage of having it hosted and maintained by someone else (Intuit in this case) is also its biggest disadvantage: users are totally helpless when the service is down/unavailable.
Since then, we have made some MAJOR improvements and are now at 99.9% uptime. Hope you'll give us another chance!
Great article Charlie. Like lots of other people I am a new user of QBO. When Intuit made the certification available I decided it was time to learn and use it. I like the way you said that the desktop and online versions were two separate programs. When I first started working in the online version I kept trying to work in it the same way I did in the desktop version. I would look for menu items in the same place, want to customize reports the same way, etc. I finally thought to myself that the online wasn't like the desktop. It really was a different program, so my thoughts on going forward with the online version was to think of it as any other accounting program I have used over the years. Learn to do what it will allow me to do and not expect it to do what it won't. Once I decided to work that way I have found it easier to work in. And I do like it.
In regards to the price of QuickBooks Online, I tell my clients using Essentials and Online Plus how they can get a 35% discount (30% if they are only plain certified) on their monthly subscription by using my Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor client discount.
All they need is their company ID, my name, company name, phone number, e-mail address, and my PA contract number. It is a nice benefit to hiring me to set up their business, review what they have done, or train them in the program or online payroll. I even have an e-mail template for it.
Charlie, Good Effort!
I am using both versions Quick books desktop and online for my clients. Yes no doubt the future is cloud base accounting and people are moving from desktop to online. QBO does not provide such an extensive reporting as QB desktop provides. At some stages QB desktop edition has advantage and at some stages QBO. It also depends on the business nature if you have manufacturing business so Inventory assembly functionality will not be in Online Quick books, so lots of work need to be done in QBO and I agree with Heather on price. Intuit need to maintain such a price which can be affordable for small size business. -
I run a small business and I've always used Quickbooks Pro. I decided to give QBO a try and for the last few days have been using it with my imported QB Pro data.
But each step of the way I've seen things that are infuriatingly illogical. I keep trying to talk myself into sticking with it because I'd much rather use an online product, but I just don't think I can justify it. Not only am I getting less functionality, I'm also paying more for it.
There is almost no reason to pay extra for quickbooks online. The bottom line is that it is really expensive! Most "cloud" based things are simply not economical. You can remote into any desktop using remote desktop software thats free or already built into windows on the off chance you may need to access your files and your not at the office. Plus most business owners have more than one business. This makes online versions that much more expensive. You need to pay for EACH company file you have every month vs. buying new software once every 3-4 years. The price isn't even comparable. I love the intuit fanboys, they make me laugh.
I think for most my clients the desktop is still the way to go. Desktop one purchase price and annual fees for add on's like Payroll. Online version monthly fee's for as long as you want access to your data. Online is only viable if you always have internet access that is reliable and high speed. For many of my clients in rural area's this makes desktop their only option.
I have a client that recently made the switch from desktop to QBO so they could implement SOS Inventory. One of the main differences i've noticed (besides the multiple open window – which is driving me nuts)is that agings seem to be perpetual in QBO so if i run an AP aging now for 12/31/12 it no longer ties to my 12/31/12 balance sheet. Am i missing something in the set up/preferences that would fix this?
Can you expand on the "advanced excel export that update existing exported reports"? Never heard of this. Thanks
Good article, Charlie — very informative. I deal with some pretty sophisticated distributors and manufacturers who have thousands of SKUs and use complex pricing schemes and directly tie QB to their 3PL. Most get orders in by fax and email, several of them use add-ons like Open for Business to enable their customers and sales reps to see order forms and place orders online.
QB Desktop has better capabilities for inventory, including some fields that QBO doesn't have, notably Qty on Order and Qty on Sales Order. So QBO can't show reliable quantity information to salespeople or to the person doing reordering for the distributor's shelves.
If my distributor client offers different prices to different kinds of customers, QBO is inadequate in because it doesn't know how to deal with price levels. The client using QBO will have to scrub every outgoing invoice individually to get the pricing right. Which of course is not fun.
I have talked with several distributors who consider selecting QBO because the cloud model is so attractive – I do my best to explain how QB Desktop brings more inventory management features to the table. In my experience the QBO model seems to be the best fit for services (non-inventory) businesses. This reinforces your point that one needs to carefully choose the right tool for the job early in the process.-
I like how you did this, Charlie. Did I miss the price comparisons and the number of users included at each price?
Isn't the QBO $35/mo? $420 per year. Are there discount sellers on the internet?
And isn't it one subscription per company?
Charlie, I've been researching the differences between QB DT and QBO and your blog is the most thorough and "made for the end user" that I've read yet. Thanks.
I have two questions that I haven't read conclusive answers to yet:
1. I am fortunate to have fast internet download and upload speeds. Will I see much difference in speed between the online and desktop versions of Quickbooks?2. If I'm making a lot of entries, will the online version slow me down?
3. Re. using Quickbooks 2013 DT with an online bill pay function with my bank, have you heard much good or bad feedback on this feature yet?
Quickbooks online is a horrible product. Choose this for your accounting needs if accounting reliability, ease of use, and quality is not that important to you, and $25-35 per month sounds cheaper than just buying the desktop version.
I have attempted to begin using QB Online and have had so much difficulty getting support. I have been on hold at least 30 min. each time I called, and most questions are not answered clearly, but only bring up other questions. I have spoken to several private consultants currently using QBO, and no one has been able to tell me whether Desktop or Online is most suitable for my needs. Each program has it's place, and I don't believe my business is that unusual. I need location tracking, inventory, and price levels, yet no one in support can tell me how to use these. I've been directed in circles from desktop to online. I am reminded of this when you say that QBO has issues, but they are making great strides. Yes some simple tasks are not possible, but just wait.. it's going to be great. It almost seems they launched the program before it was complete and we're all guinea pigs. Very frustrating. That being said, I appreciate this article attempting to clarify some differences. At least it's a starting point for discussion.
I have recently switched yet another new client off of the dreaded QuickBooks online. The desktop is far superior and online is still just as awful as it has been in the past. Aptly nicknamed the "half" version, it is frustrating to get anything done in there..workaround are a nightmare, payroll corrections are impossible. We switched close to 300 clients from online to the desktop last year and we are continuing to get new clients away from this nightmare. Just say no. It will take your accountant a lot more time to clean up your books at year end to prepare your taxes and that, my friend, will cost you much much more. Run away from the online version.
What about Intuit Sync Manager? I ***think*** it's Windows version only, but not sure.
I am new at Quickbooks, I will explain my solution and hope for advice
I would like to be able to access the same quickbooks company and files from 2 different laptops located in 2 different countries. My partner and I would like to be able to make updates to the same company files, giving me the opportunity to correct his mistakes and vice versa.
What are my different options to reach this goal?
We are using Mac, but I am also willing to hear how this could be possible on Windows if it's not possible on Mac
I am still learning Desk Top QuickBooks!Great to see the future!
Cecil D. -
No one has mentioned the continual rapid-fire releases of poorly tested major changes (called "updates" but they're often really major changes)in QBOE. This results in frustration for the average office worker/bookkeeper, re-training, errors, and expense for the small business user. My users adjusted slowly to the new 2014 version of QBOE over the past several weeks, as they were sporadically forced out of the old version and into the new. The re-design was extreme, requiring them, really, to learn a new program. Today (3/14/14) I discovered that the screens for company preferences (now called "Settings) had completely changed – for half of my users, but not for the other half. Presumably this "update" is being released on just a few servers at a time, just as the 2014 version was. (Are we testing the software "in production" designers?) QBOE could be a good solution for a lot of small businesses that don't need the wealth of features of the desktop versions, but not when the program design is so unstable. The average $20-an-hour in-house bookkeeper can't keep up. Frankly, the more complex desktop versions are better choices for them simply because the screens don't change every few weeks.
I am using QB Online and I would like to know what I need to do to format my daily transaction registration. What I want is every time I type my Vendor I would like that the system automatic shows me the account that I normally register that entry.
Can you help me?
Hi Charlie,
Many thanks for your exhaustive product comparison list. While I greatly prefer the desktop interface over the QBO interface, particularly that of 2014 QBO, QBO is convenient when the client and the accountant are each doing some of the work, there are multiple users in different locations, for collaborative purposes, and for access across different devices.
I just switched a client to QBO from desktop 2009 after doing my due diligence, however, and there still things that the client found he could not replicate in QBO. One such item is the "expense account prefill" settings function (located on the "Account Settings" tab under edit Vendor). A second is that although the payment terms can be selected from a dropdown menu in QBO, there is no option to apply the discount at the time of payment if a bill is paid within the discount period. The client is dissatisfied and I am now switching him over to QuickBooks dektop 2014.
I thought you might want to know about these so that you could add them to your list.
If anyone has had a different experience or outcome with these issues, I would welcome their insight.
Renee Klivickis Melville -
The NEW QBOE is AWFUL. It isn't a matter of small changes it is unusable at best. Used to take 3 tabs and a ctrl+s to enter a bill….now takes 8 tabs and ctrl+ALT+S to do a bill, how is that better? You can no longer pay one vendor you have to pay from the large list of bills.
I HAVE been using QBOE for 10 years and this change proves that this group at intuit is the WORST and NEVER listens to users. Whomever made this decision should be FIRED.
Why did they break something that works…….I am switching to desktop or perhaps to ANY COMPETITOR…..
Charlie, your readers should also be aware that Quickbooks will not let switch between an existing subscription and a cheaper 1-year subscription you may have purchased at a Best Buy. I'm on the phone as I type this and to make it near impossible to do, Quickbooks Online has no facility for exporting your transactions.
I've been told I would need to manually re-enter all transactions to switch over. As I'm trying to switch from a monthly sub of Quickbooks Essentials ($21/month) to a 1-year Quickbooks Essentials ($50 on sale), I suggested that since they've made it near impossible to switch, then simply reduce the fee I pay monthly to match the Best Buy offer … not possible is what I'm told.
Before my company grows any more and we end up even further down this dead-end road, I'm using my extensive time on hold to locate a competing product!
This is a huge red flag.
I have had such a love hate with this company for many many years. I just wish there was a viable alternative that allows full direct connect billpay / downloads etc.
I'm a long time mac guy and small business owner for 30 years. And It amazes me how little respect intuit has for there customers actual needs.
Appreciate the info! Still sounds to me like DT versions are much better all around.
The OE version I'm sure is still much better than any other mac support they have ever done.
I literally refuse to ever call intuit, after the years of customer no service I know I can find the solution answer faster on the web.
Wow, really comprehensive list. Always amazes me when feature differences seem arbitrary. "Excel export that can update existing exported reports" is an indispensable feature. A move to Online would require a shift in reporting workflow.
Are you familiar with Transaction Pro Imported or Abacus? Can you comment on integration (or lack thereof) with QB Online?
Thanks! RMO
Is there a way to have my accountant on my quickbooks online account at the same time with me to better answer questions for setting up properly?
Hi! There is a 14,500 name limit in QB Pro and Premier. Does this limit exist in the online versions? We use Enterprise, which has a very high limit, but are exploring conversion to QBO


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As a longtime pacifist, perhaps longer than most peaceniks, I made an exception in the Iraq war. I felt we were justified in invading that country, because it might lead us to the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center; and also find out what Hussein had up his sleeves. But our FBI and CIA had it wrong, they had gathered erroneous information and got us into a situation that proved to be disastrous.
But if we had to do it all over again with the same set of circumstances, I certainly would concur. After all, every country functions on information gathered by so called specialists.
President Bush met with his top war commanders and national security advisers the other day to review the Iraq strategy, and concluded that he will stay the course. Which means in plain English that there will be more bloodshed and the loss of lives.
The Iraqi people have been unwilling or unable to secure any semblance of peace. There are too many hostile factions, each vying for dominance. In fact, the violence has increased. If we leave now, there will only be more chaos and perhaps a civil war. But if the Iraqi people want to shed more blood, no power on earth can prevent it.
We've helped them long enough. We've exhausted our patience. I think we have overstayed our presence. And the peace marchers have nothing to do with it. I'm not influenced by them or anyone else. As hard as it is for me to say this, our mission is over. Due to lack of cooperation, we have not been able to accomplish our goal.
We have nothing to be ashamed of. We've paid a heavy price to bring peace to that region. Wise men have said, and it is so true today, that if the road has proven hazardous, seek another.
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It was heartwarming for me, a retired community activist, to see that someone finally got the nerve up to out Congressman Gregory Meeks. In her letter to the editor in the Queens Chronicle's Nov. 2 issue, Ann Rychlenski of Ozone Park told it like it is about Meeks: He ignores his constituents' needs.
In the past, when I went undercover as a battered woman and found that most women calling the hotline and being further abused by the system were African American, I reached out to Meeks. He was very meek about this very serious problem. He did nothing even after hearing hours of evidence I provided to him.
When I received calls for help from those who lived in Meeks' district and it was of a federal nature, I called his office. One problem was a very serious one regarding an illegal immigrant with nine children (who has recently received her green card, no thanks to Meeks) his representative was arrogant and dissuaded her from calling the office.
Bravo to Rychlenski. If more people exposed their elected officials, they would get the message and not become elitist and feel above the oath they took and the very people they are there to serve.
Joyce Shepard,
Saddam Hussein
Dear Editor:
Another chapter has just unfolded in Iraq with the death sentence for Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity. There is debate about the war in Iraq and our reasons for being there but one thing is crystal clear: Here is a man who was evil incarnate, a tyrant who killed his own people. He tortured, raped and imprisoned thousands by the stroke of a pen.
This verdict is a great victory for the Iraqi people and for their judicial system, since they applied their own laws. Furthermore, Hussein was tried by his own people in his own land and that is what true democracy is all about.
Frederick Bedell Jr.,
Public Advocate Waste
Dear Editor:
Why do we need a public advocate? We have so much overlap in this city—we have so many elected officials to turn to, when we request information or guidance to steer through the red tape of a bureaucracy—we really do not need another bureaucrat. And we have 311.
Ira Bailen,
Global Warming
Dear Editor:
I am writing to you regarding Janet McCarthy's letter in the Nov. 2 Queens Chronicle, wherein she contends that the global heating trend in our climate is not man made.
It is sad that my neighbor is denying a crucial problem, and it is appallingthat she is parroting Big Oil propaganda disguised as science.All New Yorkers shouldbe working to prevent a catastrophe that could literally wash up on, and over, ourdoorsteps.
McCarthy cites a solitary individual to support her fringe position: Richard Lindzen, a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who questions the role of fossil fuel emissions in disrupting the climate.Lindzen has some great work behind him, butthat by itself meanslittle. History often shows us people who should know better speaking on behalfof utter madness. Isaac Newton, for all his brilliance, believed in alchemy. ThomasJefferson, for all his righteousness, supported slavery.
Lindzen may have departed from reason for the same cause Jefferson did,namely money. In December 1995, Harper's magazine documented that Lindzen took thousands ofdollars from petroleum companies, including our dear friends at OPEC. Oncehe wasexposed, Lindzen ceased taking payments directly. Instead, he joined Exxon's scheme to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars through foundations liketheCato Institute, which pays off climate change deniers on the corporation's behalf. Exxon's plot, detailed in memos acquired by the Washington Post, wasdesignedby the same consultants who orchestrated Philip Morris' disinformationcampaign on lung cancer.
As for the rate of Arctic heating, Lindzen and McCarthy imply that a few snowstormsand forward sliding glaciers (most likely sliding because their bottoms are meltingout from under them) are more important than the millions of tons of ice that havefallen into the sea in the past 10 years.In October of this year, NASA's GoddardInstitute and the journal Science both confirmed that even with new snowfall factoredin, Greenland loses a net 20 percent of its icy mass every year. That mass goes into theAtlantic, raising sea levels.
While McCarthy worries about what the government might do to her private automobile, I worry what herautomobile will do to my community. The time is fast approaching when we won'teven have the option of trading in our cars for MetroCards and bicycles. We'llbe trading them in for life rafts.That's nature's ultimatum, not mine. All the Exxon funded denial in the world won't change it.
Garrett Ramirez,
Youth And Guns
Dear Editor:
How many more lives must be lost because of a coward picking up a gun to resolve their anger or frustration? Gun violence in this country is one of the worst forms of terrorism. You never know when, or where it will occur. Consciously or subconsciously, we are terrorized daily because of this unnecessary act of indifference to life. We must come together and use common sense to prevent these devastating acts. This horrific act is a public health issue because it impacts all of us—physically, mentally and financially. It should not be up for political debate. It's time to do what is "correct" and not continue to allow the manufacturers and distributors of these deadly weapons to wreak havoc on innocent and law abiding citizens. The manufacturers and distributors of "all" firearms must be held accountable for the hands that these weapons of mass destruction fall in. That's only common sense.
We, as a nation must come together, and say we will no longer be victimized by these cruel and brutal acts. We must unite as a people regardless of race, color, creed or religion. A violent act is a violent act, regardless of whom it is committed by or against. Neither violence, nor the weapons used are color coded. Violent acts are committed by members of our society and must be stopped by law abiding members of our society.
We as parents, guardians, family members, friends and associates can and must speak out when we know (or suspect) that a person is engaged in criminal activity, or considered a threat to another's life. For far too long, many have become blind to what is happening. Some of our young (and not so young) need professional help.Many are troubled and need guidance, and the terrible thing about it—we know it. Yet, we sit back and do nothing. We must stop talking about how bad they are and teach our youth morals and principles to live by. We must open our eyes and hearts and say enough is enough.
Many of our youth are bored, they are tired, and they are restless. We see them on the streets, we turn our heads. We see them using drugs, we ignore it. We see them drinking, we overlook it. We know they are engaged in criminal activity, and yet we do nothing. My friends, we are wrong. We are losing too many of them because we chose not to get involved in their lives. If our youth are to learn an acceptable way of life, it is our responsibility as parents/guardians to teach them and seek help when our efforts fail.
Liz Bishop Goldsmith,
president, Mothers Against Guns,
McLaughlin Coverage
Dear Editor:
First of all, regarding the Queens Chronicle's coverage of Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin,congratulations for having the courage and the ethics to denounce wrongdoing, especially when it comes from elected leaders who shouldknow better.Kudos as well for U.S. Attorney General Michael Garcia for conducting theinvestigation that led to this indictment.
The accusations directed at McLaughlin are truly astonishing.How could this have gone on for a decade without detection? How could McLaughlin even steal from a Little League baseball team?
In part, the problem is that one political party, the Democrats, dominate almost the entire borough of Queens and hold the lion's share of New York City elected offices, and frankly, they are not accountable to anyone. It is all a Democratic good old boys and girls club.
This dominations indicates that it is time for Queens Republicans and candidates from other parties to emerge and provide much needed competition and alternatives to Queens voters and residents. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The proof is in the number of Democratic elected officials being indicted and convicted. From McLaughlin to Alan Hevesi, to Clarence Norman, Roger Green, Gloria Davis … Who is next?
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"There ain't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket."
— Will Rogers
I first met Derald Ailes at Holly's Restaurant & Lounge in DeMotte, where we had an interesting conversation over breakfast. Ailes recognized me from my photo in the newspaper. He reads me.
Among other things, Ailes, 69, has been a farmer, handyman, schoolteacher and a yearbook salesman. Our interview took place at his home, about a mile east of Interstate 65 and Indiana 10. He has been married to his wife Carla twice for a total of 20 years, with a seven-year hiatus in between.
He's my annual conservative and Chicago Cubs fan to be interviewed for this column. It's best to kill two birds with one stone.
"We had a small Oliver 66 row-crop tractor when I was a kid," Ailes began. "You could stand on the ground, fill the gas tank, and if you were 5-feet-10, could see when it was full."
I couldn't.
"We farmed 300 acres. I became a Cubs fan because I'd listen to WGN while cultivating at the age of 10."
My condolences. Where was this farm?
"In Morgan Township. The farm I was on was the northeast corner of the crossroads of Smoke Road and 600 South that divides Boone, Porter, Pleasant and Morgan townships.
"We were at the north edge of the Kankakee Marsh. The land that my grandpa bought is where it gets the lowest coming out of Valparaiso heading south. There's a rise again near Kouts in Pleasant Township.
"My grandfather and his two brothers came here from Ohio in about 1910. They used slip scoops pulled by horses. Over time, they began to use tile shovels that has a special scoop that make a path in the dirt the width of a clay tile. They had to make it deep enough so a plow couldn't tear it up. The water would make it to the tile, go into the ditch, then in the Kankakee and eventually the Gulf of Mexico and then come back as snow the next winter."
You decided not to take over the family farm?
"Growing up farming with my dad, I always heard the phrase, 'Someday this will all be yours.' That was motivation. It didn't turn out to be true, but it made me a stronger person and a fairly independent person."
"I have two sisters and a brother who is a doctor in Valparaiso. Lonnie was drafted while I was in college. I went to take the physical because my number came up, but I was never called because he'd already been drafted. I think he re-upped so I wouldn't be drafted. I was still working on the farm while going to college.
"My brother became a doctor because he was in the medical corps. He had two surgeons who were colonels. As a medic, my brother had to perform thoracic surgeries on wounds. He was the real deal. Those two commanding officers told him if he'd apply to Indiana University's School of Medicine they'd make sure he got in."
They were impressed by his actions under fire.
"I'm not sure if my brother believed them, but he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got a degree in agricultural economics at Purdue, which is not pre-med by any means. Without ever taking a biology course he applied for IU med school, gave those two names as references and was accepted. He excelled."
Those colonels had clout and they kept their promise. You, on the other hand, became a teacher.
"Yes, I attended a small college near Little Rock, Arkansas. I went there because they thought I might be able to play ball for their team. My uncle had taken some movies of me playing basketball and sent them down to the college."
Did you receive an athletic scholarship?
"I got an invitation, but missed the last cut. The coach explained how sorry he was. I told him, 'Look, the players you took are all better than me. I understand.' I played intramural ball and got a degree in English. I taught grammar, literature, journalism, creative writing and judged speech contests. My first job was in Covington. I was there from '68 to '73."
Then what?
"I had a son. So I decided to sell yearbooks because it paid better. I traveled all over the state. When I started, there were five companies selling to more than 630 high schools. When I left that business in '75, there were more than a dozen companies selling to 450 high schools. It was cutthroat. I went back into farming."
How did that turn out?
"I left farming in '87 because I was $200,000 in debt. I didn't take bankruptcy because I knew the people I owed. They didn't treat me bad; it wasn't their fault. Land was $3,000 an acre when I went back to farming and it was $1,200 an acre when I had to leave. Interest was 17 percent. I had to auction everything off."
The 1980s were tough on steelworkers, too.
"I went back to school teaching at Kankakee Valley Middle School to pay off my debt. I also moonlighted as a plumber and picked up other various construction jobs. All the money I made in those first three years of teaching went to paying off my debts. Some of the people, as I got close to paying off my debt, said, 'OK, that's good enough.' "
Who is that in the framed photograph you're holding?
"It's a photo of me at the Indiana Statehouse standing next to our state representative, Douglas Gutwein."
A supporter of right-to-work legislation here in the Hoosier State.
"Yes. I was minister of the day at the Indiana Legislature in January and I led the opening prayer. I'm the pastor at Virgie Christian Church, by the way."
You don't say. I drive through Virgie on my way to Rensselaer.
"Our church has been there since 1920. I'm looking forward — if I live long enough — to giving the 100th-year sermon."
It was somewhat surprising to me that he was an English major and I had no idea he was a preacher. You can't judge a book ... While conversing with the former sod buster, I let slip some mill vernacular a time or two. For that I apologized once I realized he was a man of the cloth.
He simply smiled and said, "There are no new words."
Derald Ailes is a good man.


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- Always pay for the date. This may seem a little old fashioned and if the relationship continues, things like this may change. However, at the beginning, it is important to take care of the bill. It isn't just about the money, it is about being the kind of guy that is taking care of things and making her feel important.
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Pursue her attention and affections. You want to be the one to make the first move. Again, as things change and you get to know each other better, the roles may reverse or you may share this type of responsibility. Call her to seek out another date and make plans. You make the first move physically (just don't forget about being respectful). Knowing how to date a woman properly can go a long way in a relationship.


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