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John Kirsch
Mar 31, 2016
We had an initial meeting with a new small business client. During that meeting, we asked some preliminary questions regarding their current bookkeeping situation. We learned that the office manager who is responsible for the bookkeeping function was maintaining three different software packages:
QuickBooks was used to maintain the general ledger
A different piece of software was used to calculate and print payroll checks
A third piece of software was used for sales invoicing and accounts receivable management
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