SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTING
By Doug Sleeter
The Journey from the
Desktop to the New World
QuickBooks 2013, Plus Ten New-World Tips
for Your Firm and Your Clients
Mr. Sleeter is the founder of Te
Sleeter Group, a national group of
accounting sofware consultants who
serve small and medium-sized businesses. He is the host of the Accounting Solutions Conference and the
author of several books including the
QuickBooks Consultant's Reference
Guide, and the leading market college
textbooks "QuickBooks Fundamentals
and QuickBooks Complete." For more
information visit www.sleeter.com.
Doug can also be reached at Doug.
Sleeter@CPAPracticeAdvisor.com.
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January 2013 • www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com
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012 was quite a
year for the
"maturing" of
new world technologies in small
business accounting, but to be
clear, the "new world" is still in
the future for most frms and
clients. If you're trying to
straddle both worlds, you still
have to keep abreast of products used by current clients
while looking ahead to navigate your frm to success.
It's not that there is anything wrong with this
old world, except the old-world product
designers never anticipated most of the
technologies that today's businesses must
address. For example, Ecommerce,
mobile, and paperless. Te emergence
of "chunkifcation of business processes," zero-data-entry, and collaborative accounting services,
has driven the accounting
profession to focus on how it
changes virtually everything
about how we will run our
practices in the coming
years.
But before we get into
my new-world tips, here
are a few comments about
QuickBooks 2013. For a
deep dive into the features,
see The Sleeter Group's
blog QuickBooks and
Beyond, where Charlie
Russell has posted a 17-part
series of in-depth articles
on QuickBooks 2013.
The most significant
changes in QuickBooks 2013
include a completely redesigned
interface, including new layouts,
ribbons, customizable toolbars, a
new color scheme, and several new