Did another 4 hours of work on the Schlock book.
Did 4 hours of accounting (Quarterly reports eat time the way wood chippers eat branches. I’ve still got more to do.)
In the spaces (ha!) I took care of children.
Tired now.
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You probably don’t, but just on the off chance you do, I have a question: is your data for quarterly reports stored in a database or spreadsheet format that can be accessed by Microsoft Excel? I make macro-based report writers in Excel for a living, where you past in massive chunks of raw data and press a button and after a few minutes it crunches the numbers and spits out a useful report.
If that sounds like something that could be handy, let me know. I’m sure we can work out a way for you to toss me fake data and a fake example report without giving away real numbers, and I do this sort of thing for fun on the weekends for people I like. And I really like Schlock, so y’all qualify. 🙂
This is a very kind offer, but all of my financial data is kept in Quickbooks. If I were willing to shell out $200 per month for the Quickbooks payroll services, then the quarterly reports would be point and click. The setup for Quickbooks makes these calculations tedious to do by hand. That is probably deliberate considering how often it prompts me to save time by paying for their services.
Usually the quarterly reports take less than 2 hours, but this time I had a backlog of other stuff that I’d been procrastinating all of which had to get done first.
I would like to point out that the annoyance over payroll and quarterly payroll reports is rather unique to me. If we had dozens of employees, then the fee for services would make sense. I love using Quickbooks for everything else.
Well, if you change your mind there may still be a way. Quickbooks has an option to dump data out into comma seperated values, which can then be imported to Excel and crunched. There’s a lady across from me at work who’s got Quickbooks, so I could probably figure out what needs to be done to get such a dump as a starting point.
I’m not trying to be pushy, though, really. Just something to ponder next time one of these drives you a little nutty. 🙂