One of the financial tools available to business owner to help manage their business finances is Quickbooks. Quickbooks has different levels of access for users. The versions that are available are the free version, Simple Start, or the desktop or the online version.
Whichever one you choose, you would definitely want to read the interview below that I conducted with Ruth Perryman. In the interview below, she shares information that would be very helpful to those researching for financial software to handle their business finances.
If you have a specific question that Ruth can help you with:

Visit the “Ask the QuickBooks Specialists” …read more

Want to earn more money for your freelance writing? Of course you do.
Peter Bowerman who, among other things, writes The Well-Fed Writer Blog has a great post with some very simple and easy to implement suggestions in a post called: Repeat After Me: “I Will Ask for More Money Next Time…”
And he’s absolutely right. Simply asking for more often gets more.
Like Peter, I’ve got stories… like the time instead of quoting a fee I asked “what’s your budget for this project?” It was exactly double the amount I was thinking of asking!
It isn’t always that easy. Often the potential …read more

SlackerManager has a guest post called: Productivity Tip: Know When You’re In the Red The author, Sandy Renshaw, has devised a way to make sure she knows when a project is pro bono and when it’s paid.
I suggest you go further. First of all, one definition of profit is: The return received on a business undertaking after all operating expenses have been met. Simple enough IF you really know what your expenses are. I went around for years in a fog about both my income and expenses, and I know for a fact I’m not the only writer who has …read more

I spent years ignoring my money – money would come in and go out and I’d have only the vaguest notion of where it came from and where it went. Small wonder my income was less than stellar.
About 3-1/2 years ago I started to turn things around. Part of this effort includes tracking my income and expenses on a daily and fairly detailed basis. Amazing what a little clarity will do to improve things… my income has more than tripled.
I use Quicken and last week my tax man suggested I start all over again for 2007 and make my categories …read more