So what? What's your point? The number of users has nothing to do with the quality of the product, or the effectiveness. By that logic, Windows is the best OS in the world, and Linux is the worst. Windows Phones may not be popular, but they do everything that the other phones do, and they do it well, regardless of popularity. Windows Phone and Blackberry are only alike in terms of popularity, not functionality.
Hey, dude, it's pretty clear that you're angry because you don't think that you make the money you deserve. Part of that might be your dick-ish attitude. People pick up on that, you know, and maybe that's why you don't get promoted as much as you think you should. It's a vicious cycle.
Nintendo jumped the shark a long time ago. Only a tiny subset of their game library is aimed towards casual gamers. The rest of it is bizarre, Japanese, anime-based titles that are completely incomprehensible to anybody outside of relevant cultural circles. Sure, they'll always have their obsessed fans, but they'd have to make some radical management and cultural shifts to be able to ever appeal to mainstream, casual gamers again.
I hope you have some good kneepads. It sounds like you spend a lot of time in front of the Altar of Capitalism. These regulations are about preventing out-of-control capitalism, silly.
This is an inevitable result of buying stuff online. If I want to know if a book is any good, I'll ask the people in my local bookstore, or at my library. That's right. I'll talk, face to face, with actual, living human beings about.. and get this... actual, physical books.
You are fucking clueless. One license works fine for a $10 mil company. If you need more than one license, you're doing it wrong. If you're using Quickbooks for inventory control, then you're a fucking moron.
Any business owner with employees that spends any amount of time debating a $300 investment in basic accounting software is already a failure.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Payroll tax deductions are incredibly complicated, and if you fuck them up, it's very, very expensive.
Learning what tax rates are and how they're applied to an employee with a spouse and kids differently than a single employee is completely, and utterly pointless for a small business owner that's not an accountant. It's a simple problem that can be solved with $300 in software. Trying to do that by hand in order to save a few bucks or to uphold some whimsical idealistic bullshit is utter stupidity. I know of exactly -0- successful business owners that do this.
When you do your numbers at the end of the year with your accountant, they'll be like "WTF is this piece of shit accounting package you used? It'll take me a month to have someone re-enter all this info into Quickbooks, and I'll charge you $20/hr for it."
I think you made a typo. Most accountants that I know start at $120/hr, not $20!
Of course finding that kind of thing out would require a good 20 minutes of a busy professional's precious time so I'm sure you'd be much better off just going ahead and buying Quickbooks without a second thought based on advice from a web forum rather than actual interactions with real accountants.
I know you were trying to smarmy, but you know that QB only costs $300, right? Spending hours calling accountants to try to save $300 is quite frankly, really fucking stupid.
I would say most small businesses I know actually don't use any specific financial software, but do everything in a spreadsheet package.
What kind of small businesses are you talking about? People selling trinkets on eBay? That is some of the worst advice I've ever heard anybody suggest about small business accounting. You can't do any kind of taxes with Excel spreadsheets, unless your Excel spreadsheets are set up by accountants, and updated weekly.
If you listen to music... not compressed pop crap through itunes or something similar, but actual music, I've always found it worthwhile to get a good external sound card of some kind. Right now, I use Echo's Indigio IO that makes a LOT of difference going into my big Yamaha stereo receiver, and out through my pair of 4' JBL's. It's not an expensive setup, but a few hundred bucks at the PC, from my experience, eliminates the audio quality bottleneck that I've found on every standard PC/laptop with integrated audio.
I'm absolutely amazed that doing something like this is even possible. All of the people who put this together are heroes to me. Fuck yes. This is awesome.
No, Intuit has an elaborate payroll system for small businesses. It's between $100-$500 a year, and it's done through Quickbooks. It's brain dead simple to use.
It might be boring, but there are buckets and buckets of cash to be made from it. Right now, almost every privately owned, small business in the US uses it, and pays a few hundreds bucks every year or every few years to "upgrade" it. It ain't sexy, but it's lucrative as hell.
Those two programs are completely and totally unrelated to each other in any way. Their POS system is the codebase from RetailPro that they bought about 10 years ago. Quickbooks is obviously much older, and unrelated.
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I got it for free because I signed a 2 year contract with Sprint.
So what? What's your point? The number of users has nothing to do with the quality of the product, or the effectiveness. By that logic, Windows is the best OS in the world, and Linux is the worst. Windows Phones may not be popular, but they do everything that the other phones do, and they do it well, regardless of popularity. Windows Phone and Blackberry are only alike in terms of popularity, not functionality.
No one buys Microsoft phones.
Not true. This is posted from a Windows 7 Phone. They work just fine. I'm happy with mine. You don't know what you're talking about.
Hey, dude, it's pretty clear that you're angry because you don't think that you make the money you deserve. Part of that might be your dick-ish attitude. People pick up on that, you know, and maybe that's why you don't get promoted as much as you think you should. It's a vicious cycle.
Nintendo jumped the shark a long time ago. Only a tiny subset of their game library is aimed towards casual gamers. The rest of it is bizarre, Japanese, anime-based titles that are completely incomprehensible to anybody outside of relevant cultural circles. Sure, they'll always have their obsessed fans, but they'd have to make some radical management and cultural shifts to be able to ever appeal to mainstream, casual gamers again.
Ok, kiddo. Whatever you say. Regulation bad. Unfettered capitalism good. That's brilliant.
I hope you have some good kneepads. It sounds like you spend a lot of time in front of the Altar of Capitalism. These regulations are about preventing out-of-control capitalism, silly.
This isn't capitalism, doofus. This is the government regulating capitalism. RTFA.
There's a commission in order to be sure that people don't get screwed over by taxis. Safety. Public good. You know: Socialism.
Pot doesn't always demotivate. There are two different kinds with very different effects.
What does smoking pot have to do with employment?
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I say the same thing about people who have trouble writing basic English sentences, as well.
This is an inevitable result of buying stuff online. If I want to know if a book is any good, I'll ask the people in my local bookstore, or at my library. That's right. I'll talk, face to face, with actual, living human beings about.. and get this... actual, physical books.
You have no clue what you're talking about. Let me guess... you're a "consultant", right?
You are fucking clueless. One license works fine for a $10 mil company. If you need more than one license, you're doing it wrong. If you're using Quickbooks for inventory control, then you're a fucking moron.
Any business owner with employees that spends any amount of time debating a $300 investment in basic accounting software is already a failure.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Payroll tax deductions are incredibly complicated, and if you fuck them up, it's very, very expensive.
Learning what tax rates are and how they're applied to an employee with a spouse and kids differently than a single employee is completely, and utterly pointless for a small business owner that's not an accountant. It's a simple problem that can be solved with $300 in software. Trying to do that by hand in order to save a few bucks or to uphold some whimsical idealistic bullshit is utter stupidity. I know of exactly -0- successful business owners that do this.
When you do your numbers at the end of the year with your accountant, they'll be like "WTF is this piece of shit accounting package you used? It'll take me a month to have someone re-enter all this info into Quickbooks, and I'll charge you $20/hr for it."
I think you made a typo. Most accountants that I know start at $120/hr, not $20!
Of course finding that kind of thing out would require a good 20 minutes of a busy professional's precious time so I'm sure you'd be much better off just going ahead and buying Quickbooks without a second thought based on advice from a web forum rather than actual interactions with real accountants.
I know you were trying to smarmy, but you know that QB only costs $300, right? Spending hours calling accountants to try to save $300 is quite frankly, really fucking stupid.
I would say most small businesses I know actually don't use any specific financial software, but do everything in a spreadsheet package.
What kind of small businesses are you talking about? People selling trinkets on eBay? That is some of the worst advice I've ever heard anybody suggest about small business accounting. You can't do any kind of taxes with Excel spreadsheets, unless your Excel spreadsheets are set up by accountants, and updated weekly.
If you listen to music... not compressed pop crap through itunes or something similar, but actual music, I've always found it worthwhile to get a good external sound card of some kind. Right now, I use Echo's Indigio IO that makes a LOT of difference going into my big Yamaha stereo receiver, and out through my pair of 4' JBL's. It's not an expensive setup, but a few hundred bucks at the PC, from my experience, eliminates the audio quality bottleneck that I've found on every standard PC/laptop with integrated audio.
I'm absolutely amazed that doing something like this is even possible. All of the people who put this together are heroes to me. Fuck yes. This is awesome.
GnuCash has no payroll functions at all. How do you run a "sizeable" business without paying employees?
No, Intuit has an elaborate payroll system for small businesses. It's between $100-$500 a year, and it's done through Quickbooks. It's brain dead simple to use.
It might be boring, but there are buckets and buckets of cash to be made from it. Right now, almost every privately owned, small business in the US uses it, and pays a few hundreds bucks every year or every few years to "upgrade" it. It ain't sexy, but it's lucrative as hell.
Those two programs are completely and totally unrelated to each other in any way. Their POS system is the codebase from RetailPro that they bought about 10 years ago. Quickbooks is obviously much older, and unrelated.