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We love teaching! The Gentle Frog blog provides practical tips, expert insights, and step-by-step guides to simplify QuickBooks and bookkeeping tasks. Whether you’re a business owner or an accounting professional, find valuable resources to make managing your finances easier and more efficient.

How To Use Track1099
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use the Track1099 online software to create and file your 1099 tax forms.

Reconciling QuickBooks: How To Fix a Wrong Beginning Balance
In this training you’ll learn what to do when the beginning balance on your bank statement doesn’t match QuickBooks when reconciling.

End of Year Bookkeeping Checklist
A checklist for thoroughly reviewing your bookkeeping so that your records are clean and organized for taxes.

How to Track Time in Freshbooks
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to log the time you work in Freshbooks.

How To Update Your Company Name in QuickBooks Enterprise
In this tutorial, I show you how to change your business/company name in QuickBooks Enterprise.

How to Choose the Best Edition of QuickBooks for Your Small Business
There are many different versions of QuickBooks. I’ll help you decide which version is right for you.

QuickBooks Online Customer Payments Workflow
This workflow provides instructions for adding different types of customer payments in QuickBooks Online.

FreshBooks Dashboard Walkthrough
In this training I walk you through what you’ll find on the Freshbooks Dashboard.

How to Add an Item or Service in Freshbooks
How to add a new item or service to your Freshbooks.

QuickBooks Online Keyboard Shortcuts
In this post you’ll learn how to view the QuickBooks Online shortcuts and what each of the navigation shortcuts does.

QuickBooks Online vs QuickBooks Desktop: Expense
This is part of a series comparing QuickBooks Online to QuickBooks Desktop. I’ll be showing you how to do common tasks in both versions of

QuickBooks Online vs QuickBooks Desktop: Profit & Loss
This is part of a series comparing QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop. In this part we’ll be comparing the Profit & Loss reports.