Getting Payroll Data into Quickbooks

February 25th, 2009 by Michael Giuffrida

For 12 years in business I managed to avoid using an outsourced payroll service.  I simply used QuickBooks for processing my payroll and while it was a little more costly per person than a large payroll house like ADP or Paychex, it was simple and all in one place.
As ForeSite has grown I decided I [...]

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So where’s MY bailout? Cash flow management; Critical to a small business’s success

January 27th, 2009 by Michael Giuffrida

In a time when it seems the government is giving cash to every large mis-managed business in the country, it is frustrating as a small business CEO trying to get more breathing room on our credit line and are told no because the credit markets are in disarray. We didn’t create this problem, but [...]

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How do I account for my overhead?

November 24th, 2008 by Michael Giuffrida

As an SMB, we don’t generally have the time to run a myriad of reports and twist and turn data to figure out where we are making money and where we are not.  Sure, direct expenses are east to calculate, but which lines of business are taking up the rest of the company resources such [...]

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