Last year, your client provided their QuickBooks® file to you…it was a mess. After hours of work to clean it up, you prevailed and were able to fix it and it was beautiful (if you do say so yourself)!  You issued the tax return and gave your client back the perfect QuickBooks Year-End file.  Fast forward to 2009, you await with anticipation to receive your client’s QuickBooks file, expecting to save time this year since you did all the hard work last year…but, SURPRISE!  Your client has not only made some of the same errors this year, but went back to the numbers you closed in the QuickBooks file last year and changed them as well.

Before QuickBooks 2009, tracking the changes that your client made after your year-end review took a lot of manual work and searching through multiple reports.  Now with the new Client Data Review feature in QuickBooks 2009, you can track the changes that your clients have made to the ending balances from the prior year so you can roll forward easily to the current year beginning balances.

Additionally, you can track changes to lists such as the Chart of Accounts and Items List, match open credits in A/R and A/P, capture the adjustments you make during the review for your workpapers and much, much more!  You can learn more by watching portions of a seminar I did for a local CPA firm on how to use the Client Data Review feature at year-end.

The seminar is in 3 parts:

·         Part 1: An Overview of the Client Data Review feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64FnNrHsO78&feature=channel_page ,

·         Part 2: Identifying Errors in A/R and A/P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZvlqu4I5m4&feature=channel_page

·         Part 3: Other tasks such as 1099 Mapping, Sales & Payroll Taxes, Bank Reconciliations, Inventory, & Finishing the Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YSw_I4me9  o&feature=channel_page