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Payroll for Work Hours & Drive Time Invoicing Problem
Entering payroll for normal employee work hours and drive time and passing only the work hours through to client invoices is not only important but confusing. The following question was submitted by a reader who pays from the start of the first job till the end of the last job of the day (not including lunch break). I have my employees fill out a time tracker sheet each day that shows the time started at the first job till the end, drive time in between jobs, so on and so forth. I enter this into QuickBooks but I can't figure out where to enter in drive time to pay the girls their hourly wage on payroll but to not invoice anyone for drive time.
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Deducting the Cost of Lost Equipment from an Employee’s Pay
Can you deduct the cost of lost equipment from your employee’s pay? As a business owner I'm betting that on more than one occasion you have had an employee who has lost his company provided cell phone more than once and you've have to replace it. Perhaps you want to recover the cost of the phone via a payroll deduction - before you do, read the rest of this article, because the answer depends first on state and federal restrictions and second on how much you want to deduct.
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Weekly Wrap-Up: News You Can Use 5/4 – 5/10/2012
There is so much news and information floating around the web – it’s difficult (at best) to keep up! I’ve added a WordPress plug-in that grabs information from my Twitter stream to help me (and hopefully you as well) keep up with everything. Look for the Weekly Wrap-Up: News You Can Use every Friday. See what's in store this week!
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QuickBooks Payroll Important System Maintenance Announcement
An important QuickBooks Payroll System Maintenance Announcement - a system-wide upgrade will start at 6 p.m. on Thursday 5/24/2012 and continue through 5 a.m. on Tuesday 5/29/2012 - Direct Deposit will also be effected and don't forget that this is also the Memorial Day holiday weekend! QuickBooks Payroll will not process direct deposit checks dated for Monday, May 28, 2012 due to the Memorial Day holiday. In order for your employees to receive their paychecks before Monday, May 28, you should change your paycheck date to Friday, May 25 and send your payroll by 5pm PT on Wednesday, May 23.
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Construction Payroll, Should I Do It In-house or Outsource It?
Construction payroll can be complex and many business owners wonder if they should hire a payroll clerk and issue payroll in-house or if they should outsource it. As a contractor a significant portion of your job costs involve payroll and labor burden (payroll taxes, worker's compensation insurance, general liability insurance, company paid fringe benefits etc.) and you need to have these numbers included in your job costing reports so you can analyze your bidding practices and know whether or not you made a profit on the job. If your payroll is not run through your accounting software you loose this vital piece of job costing information.
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80040407 - The installation of QuickBooks appears to be incomplete. Please re-install QuickBooks. |
Resolving Error Code 80040407
According to Intuit Developer Network (IDN) Support, some errors such as this one above may only be resolved by the following procedure.
- Back up your QuickBooks data file twice; once on normal backup media and once to the hard drive of your computer in "My Documents"
- Un-install QuickBooks using Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs
- Delete the folder where QuickBooks was installed; usually C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks
- Delete the contents of the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intuit
- Install QuickBooks
- Update QuickaBooks with all current Maintenance Releases
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