How to Record Customer Payments in Quicken 2013
When you're using Quicken 2013 to manage your small business's finances, you will need to record customer payments. To record a payment, follow these steps: [more…]
Ten Ways to Get Ready for Payroll with Quicken 2013
To do payroll in Quicken 2013, you need to set up a couple of payroll expense categories. Fortunately, doing so is not particularly difficult. This information is specific to setting up U.S. federal income [more…]
How to Deposit Taxes with Quicken 2013
Making tax payments with Quicken 2013 is easy. Make no mistake. Uncle Sam wants the money you withhold from an employee’s payroll check for federal income taxes, Social Security, and Medicare. Uncle Sam [more…]
Four Tax Deposit Tips for Quicken 2013 Users
Here are a handful of suggestions about making tax deposits with Quicken 2013 easier and less painful. The fast payroll method also has a weakness you should know about. [more…]
How to Set Up a Rental Property in Quicken 2013
The Quicken Rental Property Manager provides everything available in Quicken 2013. To track rental properties with Quicken, you need to describe each property. To describe a property, follow these steps [more…]
Describe Your Tenants to the Quicken Rental Property Manager
The Rental Property Manager version of Quicken 2013 includes tools for tracking both your rental properties and your rental income and expense. When tracking rental expenses, one of the first things you [more…]
Record Tenant Rent Payments in Quicken Rental Property Manager
In the Rental Property Manager of Quicken, you can record your tenant's rent payments. After you describe your properties and your tenants, you can begin recording tenant rent payments as tenants pay you [more…]
Are Your Investments Tax-Deferred?
If your investments are tax-deferred — if, for example, you’re using individual retirement accounts (IRAs), Simple-IRAs, Roth accounts, or 401(k)s — you don’t really need to track investment income and [more…]
How to Pick a Mutual Fund
Here are a handful of tips about how to pick a mutual fund from a former registered investment adviser and current CPA who has seen countless real-life examples of people’s investing successes and mistakes [more…]
Set Up a Tax-Deferred Investment Account in Quicken 2013
If you need to track a tax-deferred investment in Quicken 2013, you need to know how to set up a tax-deferred account and then record your investment activities. Understanding how tax-deferred investment [more…]
How to Record Your Initial Investments in Quicken 2013
After you set up an investment account in Quicken 2013 and describe the securities in the account, you can record an initial purchase of the investments. Of course, you need to know the original price [more…]
How to Track Investments Purchases in Quicken 2013
As you buy additional investments — by contributing additional amounts to your retirement account or by reinvesting dividends and capital gain distributions — you should record the transactions in Quicken [more…]
How to Record Investment Profits in Quicken 2013
You need to record your investment profits in Quicken 2013. Perhaps regularly, you’ll receive distributions directly from the investment account’s investments that you don’t immediately reinvest. Instead [more…]
How to Record Sold Investments in Quicken 2013
In Quicken 2013 selling mutual fund shares works basically the same way as buying them — only in reverse. To record the sale of shares held in an investment account, perform the following actions: [more…]
