Spring has sprung! There is something about Spring that makes me want to clean. The urge generally doesn’t last too long, so I try to do my Spring cleaning when I feel the motivation. Spring is a good time to look at your bookkeeping, email, and even your desk, to see what could use some […]
Author Archives: Cindy Hovig
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Mar
Mar
Have you heard of the billable expenses feature in Xero? It is a handy feature that can be especially good for construction contractors. What are Billable Expenses? Billable expenses work by being able to assign a certain expense to a customer when you are entering a bill or spend money transaction. You can opt to […]
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Mar
Mar
This month we are featuring construction contractors. We love working with construction contractors and you could even say we specialize in working with contractors. Contractors face some unique challenges. Today we will talk about three challenges that contractors might face and how tools in Xero can help solve these challenges. Invoicing and Getting Paid Quickly We […]
28
Feb
Feb
This month we are focusing on good practices to follow when starting a new business. A basic step when starting a new business is creating a new Xero file, and one of the first steps to that is editing your settings. One of the things we love about Xero is how the settings can be […]
27
Feb
Feb
If you are thinking of starting a new business or recently have started a business, chances are you have thought about how you will be keeping your books. You may have thought how there was no way you would do it yourself and you started to look into outsourcing it. Or you may have thought, […]
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Feb
Feb
Have you been thinking of starting a new business? Now’s a great time to do it! Here’s a quick guide on how you can use the cloud to help. Why Use the Cloud The cloud provides many benefits to you when you are starting a new business because you can have all your documents and […]
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Feb
Feb
We all want to get paid as quickly as we can. Getting paid in a timely manner is very important to a small business as cash flow can make or break a business. The lifeblood of cash flow for many businesses is invoicing. It also can be the most time-consuming. Xero has many features to simplify […]
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Jan
Jan
Xero is always coming out with new features! A recently released feature got us pretty excited. There is now a running balance column on the bank account transactions page. What is the Running Balance? The running balance on the Account Transactions tab includes all reconciled transactions and unreconciled spend money and receive money transactions that have […]
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Jan
Jan
Have you encountered this scenario: You have your bank rules set up and they are working well for you. You come to one particular item and Xero wants to auto-match the transaction (you will see the suggested match in green), but you want to apply a bank rule. Why is Xero auto-matching your transaction? We’ve […]
03
Jan
Jan
Happy January! You know what that means – it’s 1099 time! Exciting! Okay, maybe not everyone gets excited about 1099s, but I recently got a shirt that says “Wine ’em dine ’em 1099 ’em!” Which makes me excited for 1099s. Thanks for that shirt SalesPad by the way. But in all honesty, 1099s can be stressful, […]