If you’re in Charlottesville on Saturday . Check out the Tops of the Hops Beer Festival and help support the Music Resource Center. http://www.charlottesvillepavilion.com/calendar/show/241/

We are proud to be fully certified on a revolutionary product called Method Integration. Method Integration is a powerful set of customizable web apps linked to QuickBooks. It extends QuickBooks forms and data fields to the web for anywhere access to your data. Sync your customers, vendors, employees, and financial transactions in real time to the web. Add to QuickBooks data by building new tables and adding new fields to your QuickBooks data that doesn’t already exist in QuickBooks. Share access to your data with customers, vendors, or employees through web portals.  The certification process involved comprehensive training and testing on the software.

Contact us if you are interested in talking more about the capabilities of the program or would like to sign up for a free trial Method account.  We will help you through the entire process of obtaining a Method account and performing any customization to fit your company’s processes.

Paychecks have payroll tax liabilities calculated within them, and voiding a paycheck could upset your payroll tax reporting.  After due diligence to confirm with your banking institution:
1. Find the employee’s lost check in the QuickBooks check register and open it up to see detail
2. Write down the following info: employee name, date of paycheck, net amount of paycheck, and check number
3. Check the “To Be Printed” box in this paycheck screen (Reference the old check number & date of reprint in your memo)
4. Select “Print” along the top of the paycheck screen (remember to verify the next check # in your sequence!)
5. After re-printing the paycheck with the new check number, go to “Write Checks”
6. In the “Write Checks” window, enter all the information you wrote down in step # 2 above
7. in the Memo portion of this new check, identify that this entry (that now has the old/lost #) was added after re-issuing the lost paycheck.  Reference both check numbers in the memo portion.
8. Record, then Edit>Void this same check making sure to retain the memo information (steps 7 & 8 could be done simultaneously)

The Montreal ensemble’s opening track, “The Suburbs”, is a surprising composition of akin to Randy Newman’s brand of ragtime.  Other early tracks on this CD encourage one’s ability to take a leap of faith, be true to one’s core values, and avoid distraction or derailment of one’s objectives.

The emotional tide turns after that.  On “Empty Room”, the energy in the music is contrasted with the hopelessness of the lyrics. Who’d want to live in a “City Without Children”?   A favorite of mine is their current single “Month of May”.

“Half Light I and II” admonishes that you can’t go back, either for the sake of your own personal growth or to reminisce.  If you did go back, those who remembered you would be operating from their old perspective and not your current evolution.  Even Jesus was rejected upon his return to Nazareth in Luke 4:22-30:  “no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown.”  Win and Will Butler also talk of hollowed out suburban areas as consequence to the market losses that started in late 2008.

As it closes, “The Sprawl I and II” fears losing personal connections and growing detached due to the instant gratification and feedback in this age of 24/7 media and communications.  Win Butler should let his wife, Regine Chassagne, be lead singer a little more. Her 80’s new wave vocal breathes life into “The Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”.

Although it may be obvious who Arcade Fire’s musical influences are, they manage to stay faithful to their signature sound.  “The Suburbs” takes one on a musical journey of highs and lows, passion and apathy, energy and lethargy.  But, all remains hopeful in the end.

Small nonprofit organizations at risk of losing their tax-exempt status because they failed to file required returns for 2007, 2008 and 2009 can preserve their status by filing returns by Oct. 15, 2010, under a one-time relief program, the Internal Revenue Service announced.

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When you’re ready to add a loan to the Loan Manager, have your loan documents in hand. You’ll need them for the origination date, payment amount, term, escrow amount (if any), interest rate, and other information.

For a new loan, set up a liability account for the loan. When you add the account and lender details, include any information you want the Loan Manager to use for tracking, such as the account number and lender contact information. This information can be found on your loan documents. Be sure that you enter the correct opening balance for the account. Otherwise, you will not be able to set up payments from the loan manager.  Set up an expense account for tracking the loan interest. If you need to make escrow payments to the loan, set up an escrow account for them.

Correct set up of your loans in Loan Manager will help you categorize interest and principal payments.

His tips and an evening contribution from the owners went toward helping meet the goal.“During the snow storms this past winter, the Red Cross roof took a terrible beating…under the weight of 36 inches of snow and the lobby ceiling collapsed” said Joe.  “Now Red Cross staff use buckets throughout the building whenever it rains…the roof needs to be replaced.” 

 WHEN:  Thursday, July 29 9:00a to 12:00p

WHERE: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA

WHAT:  Whether simple or complex, if you are to fulfill your mission, a bookkeeping system is a key ingredient for your organization.  Join Mark & Andrea Crews, of LaCrews Bookkeeping,  to learn tips for setting up an effective bookkeeping system, choosing the right software for your organization, and options for dealing with payroll.  This session will offer tips for organizations large and small.   Nonprofit executives, business managers, board chairs, and board treasurers are encouraged to attend.

FEE:  $25 for CNE members; $50 for non-members

Advance Registration Appreciated:  tinyurl.com/2by9lbb

If you or someone you know who were frustrated by this experience, we have a variety of solutions to offer you as an alternative to QuickBooks Online. If you prefer working in the “cloud”, but don’t want to use QuickBooks Online please call or email us.