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Ledger Light

Jennifer

The Ledger Light podcast is all about accounting, tax, and QuickBooks. The podcasts are short and to-the-point, getting to the heart of the matter quickly. We're sensitive about your time. It is on our hearts to help people understand accounting concepts. We incorporate stories, analogies, metaphors, diagrams, and tables whenever possible. Most of the podcasts here will have corresponding posts on the blog at LedgerLight.com. If we talk about a diagram or a table on the podcast, you can probably see it on the blog.

Bookkeeping is like weaving on a loom

Jul 30, 2018

8 min

Inactive accounts in QuickBooks

Inactive accounts are doing important things for you today. Don't delete them. Instead, take care of them the way I explain here.

Jul 30, 2018

4 min

QuickBooks Self-Employed App: I like it, but...

I like the QuickBooks Self-Employed App, but I do have one reservation about it.

Jul 29, 2018

6 min

Quickly entering transactions for cash basis reports in QuickBooks

If cash basis reports are all that the firm needs, then this method for entering transactions is quick and efficient. I suspect it is even more efficient than relying on downloads. Try it and see if you agree.

Jul 23, 2018

10 min

QuickBooks and downloads: zero improvement in seven years

People say that technology is taking over accounting, but that is a joke, at least at the small business level. For example, there has been no improvement in the efficiency in QuickBooks downloads in the last seven years. If you're struggling with these downloads, it's probably not you. That's not going to win me any friends at Intuit, but it is the truth.

Jul 23, 2018

4 min

QuickBooks in the culture, part two

Here I give some of my thoughts about the appropriate situations for QuickBooks, as well as a research idea that I have about it.

Jul 23, 2018

3 min

Is QuickBooks embedded in the culture?

In this podcast I offer some of my thoughts about the brand of QuickBooks and how it has embedded itself into the culture of small business.

Jul 22, 2018

5 min

The difference between accounting and tax

In this podcast I use an analogy to explain the difference between accounting and tax. I've done this because I've noticed that small business owners get these two ideas confused but it is important to understand the difference.

Jul 22, 2018

3 min

Lessons learned doing forensic accounting

In this podcast I told the story about a forensic accounting assignment that I had back in the mid-1990s, and the lessons that I learned from it.

Jul 22, 2018

7 min

The Yin/Yang symbol and the balance sheet

Here is the story of how I put the balance sheet together with the Yin/Yang symbol.

Jul 21, 2018

6 min