Today marks 5 years since IQ Accounting Solutions opened for business. We’ve all heard the statistics about the survival rate of small businesses, so I am very happy to have reached this milestone. Part of the reason I enjoy doing what I do is because I get to help all of you beat those odds […]
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Thanks for 5 Great Years
Mar 1
Sage 50 defaults to saving your backups in the same folder your data is in – not very helpful if that hard drive fails. Here is an easy way you can save your backups to a different location.
If you have ever tried to open a task in Sage 50/Peachtree and it showed up on the Windows task bar but no window ever appeared, don’t worry. You can usually solve the problem with a few simple keyboard commands.
In Sage 50/Peachtree the error “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” means that there is a problem in the user-maintained tax table. It may mean that the file was damaged. But if the error appeared after a tax update was installed there is another likely explanation.
If you ever print envelopes to mail to your customers, vendors, or employees, you can save time by setting up a custom form in Sage 50-US Edition. Then you’ll be able to print an envelope with just a few clicks, instead of retyping or copying and pasting names and addresses.
If you need to calculate a date in Excel based on another date, such as a due date that is 30 days after an invoice date, or scheduling a follow-up 3 months after a meeting, you can do so using a simple formula to add a number of days to a date, or using the EDATE function to get the same date in a future (or past) month.
The “Waiting on Bill” option in Sage 50/Peachtree allows you receive inventory before you have an invoice for it. This tip explains how and why you should use it, as well as how to work around some of its shortcomings.
