Quickbooks For Mac 2013 Manual

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QuickBooks provides a way to run the accounting aspects of your business and create accurate reports to track your company's growth. Quickbooks for Windows and Mac require a separate installation package for each operating system. You can convert your company file to a Mac-compatible version to transfer basic transaction, customer, employee and vendor data. When it comes time for taxes, you must convert the file back to a Windows-compatible format before sending your company data to an accountant that uses the QuickBooks Accountant edition.

Converting to Mac

When you decide to go ahead with the transfer process, you need to make sure you have installed and purchased QuickBooks on your Mac computer. You can't install the Windows version on the Mac. Convert the file by clicking the 'File' menu, selecting 'Utilities' and choosing the 'Copy Company File for QuickBooks for Mac.' Email or transfer the file to your Mac computer and then open the file using QuickBooks for Mac. Once converted, check your accounts, customer, vendor and inventory lists to make sure all of your information transferred properly.

Version Information

While you can transfer a QuickBooks for Window version from a previous year to the newest version of QuickBooks for Mac, you can expect better results when transferring using the same version year on both copies. You must have at least QuickBooks for Mac 2007 or later to open a converted file. If you have an older version of QuickBooks for Mac, you should upgrade before attempting to import the Windows file. If you need to convert your file back to Windows again, you can save the Mac version of the company file as a QuickBooks for Windows format from the File menu.

Version Differences

QuickBooks for Mac differs in many ways from the Windows version. Some of your inventory may not transfer correctly or completely. For example, QuickBooks for Mac doesn't include support for units of measure or creating packages of assembly items out of individual inventory parts. The payroll service on QuickBooks for Windows also doesn't exist in the Mac version. Reports vary between the two versions of the software, since the Windows versions contains many additional default report options. The Mac version of QuickBooks also doesn't support multi-currency options.

Accountant Copies

If you decide to convert your copy of QuickBooks for Windows to the Mac version, you must convert your company file to a Windows version to send it to your accountant for tax purposes. Use a process known as Roundtrip to send the Mac version of your file to your accountant. To accomplish this, you need to save your file using the 'Copy Company File to QuickBooks for Windows' option from the File menu. Then, when the accountant finishes, they must save the changes as a QuickBooks for Mac file. Make sure to use the same version year on both your copy and the accountant's copy before attempting to send your file.

Disclaimer

Information in this article applies to QuickBooks for Mac 2013, as well as QuickBooks for Windows Pro and Premiere 2013. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.

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Manual payroll

There is an alternative to QuickBooks Payroll Subscriptions, it's called 'Manual Payroll'.

Intuit recently announced that their most popular payroll subscriptions are going up in cost. This increase in cost will not only impact QuickBooks users, but also ProAdvisors who either provide payroll services directly to clients, or assist clients with QuickBooks Payroll. As QuickBooks payroll subscription prices rise, fewer small businesses may decide to move ahead with automating their payroll, they will simply hang-on to those paper tax tables they have been using for the last few years and continue with their manual ways of doing payroll.

While QuickBooks ProAdvisors’ spend a lot of time teaching our clients how to use QuickBooks Payroll services, of one type or another, not many of us even bother to let our clients know that there is an ‘old fashioned’ alternative to Intuit payroll offerings. While many small businesses want to automate payroll within their accounting, many cannot afford a payroll subscription, especially in light of other payroll related costs. This article is intended to insure that readers are aware that you can still prepare payroll manually inside of QuickBooks.

A large number of mom-n-pop businesses who are starting to grow have been preparing payroll for their few employees using the old fashioned method of looking up tax tables to process payroll deductions and then hand-write or type paychecks. While this may not be the best approach it is still an alternative; however, QuickBooks stopped featuring this ‘built-in’ functionality years ago in favor of promoting payroll subscriptions. But while ‘manual payroll’ is not simply a select it option in the payroll preferences it is still and option both you and your clients should be aware of.

If a client doesn’t want to subscribe to a QuickBooks Payroll subscription, their QuickBooks can still be set-up to allow them to process manual payroll. To turn on ‘manual payroll’:

Step 1 - Click Help on the QuickBooks bar, the select QuickBooks Help.

Step 2 - Search for the manual setup article by typing calculate payroll manually,

Step 3 - Help will display a series of payroll topics:

  • Click on the topic Calculating payroll taxes manually (without a subscription to QuickBooks Payroll).

Step 4 - Help opens the topic window, read the information thoroughly, including the disclosure where Intuit is telling you that if you use manual payroll processing they assume no liability for any improper calculations. [Note: if you have been preparing payroll from tax tables since your first employee you were already assuming all the liability for doing so.]

Step 5 - Near the end of the displayed information, you will find a one sentence paragraph that reads “Set your company file to use the manual payroll calculations setting.”

  • Click on the words manual payroll calculations (this links you to yet another Help window).

Step 6 - This new help-window displays an additional message asking “are you sure you want to set your company file to use manual calculations?” There is some more verbiage on the screen that is intended to make you think twice about not subscribing to an Intuit Payroll Service.

  • At the very bottom of this window you will see, click here: Set my company file to use manual calculations. If you wish to continue you must click on those words to proceed.

Step 7 - QuickBooks then displays the message shown in the title of this article. “You must now calculate and enter your paycheck amounts manually. If you currently have an active QuickBooks Payroll Service Subscription, you must call the Intuit Payroll Service to cancel your subscription and avoid future charges.” (Once again it seems to be all about payroll subscription revenues.)

Step 8 - Manual payroll processing is now active. You will find that ‘Payroll items’ have been added to the List Menu, and you have access to the same type of payroll item functionality that payroll subscription users make use of, with the exception that all ‘figures’ such as tax rates must be entered by you.

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Step 9 - Payroll checks and other payroll functionality that had been turned off in your QuickBooks file are now available.

Step 10 - You can set-up your payroll items, employees and process payroll and payroll taxes in exactly the same way you would if you had a payroll subscription with one exception, you must calculate all taxes manually (using either manual tax tables or tax formulas).

  • In some cases payroll tax items will generally remain constant, such as the rate for Medicare and Social Security. (Check you tax tables for current rates.)
  • In other cases you will need to ‘compute’ (with paper tax tables or formulas) the tax to be applied when processing the paycheck, such as Federal Withholding.

Step 11 - Just remember you are on your own, exactly like you were when you hand wrote paychecks with the only difference being that QuickBooks is posting and tracking the data you enter.

Step 12 - Unfortunately you cannot prepare or print payroll tax forms using ‘manual payroll’; however, you can easily find the information, within QuickBooks Payroll reports, you need to prepare those filings manually or enter in an on-line reporting system such as EFTPS (Electronic Federal Tax Payment System).

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It is hard to truly judge the value of the manual payroll option over a subscription; for larger businesses one can expect that a payroll subscription will almost certainly be more cost effective than the task of having to use tax table look-up for each payroll as required by this process. On the other hand, for a small one or two man shop, this option may just be the alternative that their small business needs, especially if their paychecks tend to remain constant from one pay period to the next. In these cases you as a QuickBooks ProAdvisor can provide a meaningful service to your client by insuring that they are aware of this 'manual payroll' alternative which remains as 'hush hush' as QuickBooks can keep it.