Planning for Asset Keeper 2011 and Quick Trial Balance Vesion 5

Our development and support staff sat down and discussed potential enhancements for Asset Keeper 2011 and Quick Trial Balance, Version 5. It was a productive meeting and resulted in a list of exciting enhancements for both applications. These meetings always start with a feeling that there just isn’t any way we can make Asset Keeper/QTB [...]

Small Business Act of 2010 is a dilemma for the states.

With the passage of the Small Business Act of 2010 on September 27, 2010, a new dilemma for the states was introduced.  Do they couple or decouple from the bonus depreciation and Section 179 rules included in this legislation. Here’s an interesting article discussing this.  Click here.

Getting the most out of tech support.

Let’s face it, nobody likes calling tech support.  However, there are some guidelines that you should follow in order to get the most out of your support requests.  Here’s an interesting article that discusses this.  Click here.    

AK2010 – Print Reports to Disk (by default).

Some of our users are interested in printing all Asset Keeper reports to disk.  To facilitate these situations, there is now an option in the Client Information screen (under Report Options) that will select the “Print To Disk/Email” option (by default) when you select any report.  You only need to click the “Print/Email” button and [...]

PRO-WARE Moving Soon!

Before you receive your next upgrade notice, our offices will be re-located to a new location.  Estimated completion date for the external shell of the building is mid August.  Estimated completion date for the internal buildout is September 15th, so we should be moving the end of September.  We’re excited about the prospect of moving [...]

AK2010 – Year-End Report (report specification)

The new Year-End Review Report has been completed and we think this will be an extremely useful and time-saving report when processing client files at the end of the year.  We thought you might appreciate seeing what the report specification screen for this report looks like, so here’s a picture of it. A separate report [...]

AK2010 – New Report (Year-End Review)

I’ve been contemplating a report like this for some time.  My initial thoughts centered around what I typically do when reviewing a client’s data at the end of the year.  I would print the Asset Depreciation Short Report and use the include option so that only the assets I wanted to review were included.  For [...]

ASSET KEEPER – VERSION 2010

With the end of tax season comes the beginning of development on the next version of Asset Keeper. After twenty-five years of development, we have decided to change the versioning to reflect the year that you would use to prepare tax returns.  So our next version will NOT be Version 26, it will be Version [...]

President Obama Poised to Sign Stimulus Bill

There are only a couple of significant items in the stimulus bill that will affect our software, and in particular, Asset Keeper. Bonus depreciation and the increase Section 179 expensing limits have been extended through December 31, 2009.  These are the same provisions that were re-enacted in the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. To accomodate [...]

Kaylee Marie Roberts meets planet earth.

My daughter Kari gave birth to her 2nd child, Kaylee Marie Roberts, today.  She was born at 12:36 p.m. and tip the scales at 6 lbs 4 ozs.  She is 19 inches long.  Not bad for a mom that is only 5′ 2″ tall.  Mother and child are both doing fine and anxious to get [...]