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Employee New Hire Information & Checklist

Published October 26, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth
There is so much more to hiring an employee than putting an ad in the newspaper and arranging for interviews - even though these are both very important. Once you have gone through the interview process with everyone who has applied and you make a hiring decision; you find yourself with a lot of additional information that you need to have keep on file about the employee that you just hired. That's where this 13 page employee new hire information & checklist will come in handy - and it's in Word format, so you can customize it to meet the needs of your company. Price:  Free
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VIDEO: How To Make Your QuickBooks Customer:Job List More Meaningful

Published June 6, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth

The QuickBooks Customer:Job records hold a lot of important information, project information, customer types, job types, job descriptions, start dates, and many other things as well.

QuickBooks offers you two different ways in which to view your Customer:Job List, and did you know that each view can be customized to display additional information that is found within the various tabs of each record? How cool is that?

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VIDEO: Batch Timesheet Entry in QuickBooks 2012

Published April 13, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth
VIDEO: Entering employee time in the Weekly Timesheet in QuickBooks is a painstakingly slow process, especially if you have a lot of employees - QuickBooks 2012 solves "some" of that with the new Batch Timesheet Entry feature, but it's still not perfect or very flexible. Entering timesheets for multiple employees or vendors all at the same time will be a huge productivity booster for some companies - but only in very specific situations. In the real world, the QuickBooks Batch Timesheet feature will not be much of a productivity booster for many construction companies - they will want a more robust solution that will solve nine (9) critical and missing needs for their QuickBooks employee time card entry processes.
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Nancy Smyth, Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc.
QuickBooks Construction & Payroll Expert


I've been using and supporting QuickBooks products since the early 1990's. I've worked with thousands of contractors, assisting them with QuickBooks setup, Certified Payroll Reporting requirements, AIA Billing and Weighted-Average Overtime.


QuickBooks is a powerful product, but learning how to use it in your construction business can be difficult. I hope you find resources available here to be helpful.

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