April 28, 2025

Best Bookkeeping Software

Best Bookkeeping Software

Best Bookeeping Software, which software is right for you, Quickbooks, Xero, Freshbooks, Sage, Netsuite. Compare Xero to Quickbooks pricing, ease of use. Does QuickBooks make intergration eaiser or does Xero make bookeeping easier. For Truckers, Owner...

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Season 2

Best Bookeeping Software, which software is right for you, Quickbooks, Xero, Freshbooks, Sage, Netsuite. Compare Xero to Quickbooks pricing, ease of use. Does QuickBooks make intergration eaiser or does Xero make bookeeping easier. For Truckers, Owner Operators, Small businesses which would you choose QuickBooks or Xero. TruckerTaxTools provide Bookeeping and recommends which software QuickBooks or Xero?

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tax planning, and tax relief for individuals and businesses just

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the overwhelming questions that were being asked, just hey, what

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software should I use for my bookkeeping? You know, we

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all hear the ads out there and into it. Quick

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Books is putting out there, and most people are familiar

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with quick Books. They used to have the program peach

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Tree out there, but as quick Books right or is

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there a better or different solution, you know some of

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those other solutions that we see out there, maybe fresh Books,

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it may be zero Zoho, Sage Accounting, neat one. I

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haven't heard from Cashew and herrow. You know what's right?

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You know what's is the easiest software to ease You know,

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people go to quick Books because that's what they've heard.

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But Zero is becoming one of the biggest names in

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accounting software. And so what is the difference between you know,

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quick books and Zero. What is the best software you

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know for you? We're going to kind of run down

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kind of a comparison between QuickBooks and Zero because they are,

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like I said, two of the biggest names in the

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accounting software space. You know, small businesses will use both

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of these softwares to track their finances, generate financial reports,

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managed taxes or payroll, or track inventories. You know, both

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of these have some similarities and small businesses can get

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their finances in order using these. But there are some

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differences and there are some ways that each software is

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better than the other. But you know what's going to

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be right for you? Well, I'll tell you what we

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use later in the program. So you got to keep

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listening so that you know, hey, which is going to

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be the right software for you. You know, the first thing

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everybody looks at is price. You know, if you're comparing

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Zero in quick books, you can go into zero for

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twenty dollars a month. They also give you some promotions

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during the first three months which will get you about

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ninety percent off, whereas quick Books they're pretty much starting

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at thirty five dollars a month and then you can

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get fifty percent off for the first three months with

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their current promotions. So you can see there is a

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fifteen dollars difference per month and it could be critical

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in making ends meet for your business as well. The

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other thing to consider is users. Now, most people aren't

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going to need a lot of users in the software,

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especially small business. You probably need you know yourself, maybe

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you have in house bookkeeper, or maybe you're using a

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bookkeeping service like truck or tax tools, so you mainly

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need you know, a couple of users zero. They have

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unlimited users. You can add as many people as you want.

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With books, they max you out at twenty five on

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one of their advanced plans. So if users are important,

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that could be a definite difference in which software you

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want to use. Invoicing and expensive. Both softwares allow you

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to do invoicing, and both software's track expenses. Both softwares

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will have multi currency support. Now you know most small businesses.

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This isn't going to be a huge deal multi currencies,

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and unless maybe you're transporting goods, you know, in and

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out of Mexico or Canada, that you might have some

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currency transactions there. Both softwares have some app integration and automation.

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Both softwares will have mobile applications. Both softwares do reports,

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and both softwares have training, so you can go to

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you know, Zero's website or quick books website and get

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your training that you need to help you through software.

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You know, but there are some differences that make each

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of their platforms unique and maybe suitable for different applications.

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So you've got to look and still analyze the software.

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You got the key features that are out there, but

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we're going to go back over those in a little

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bit more detail. So you're accounting your invoicing and your expenses,

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you know, expense tracking, multiple payment receiving methods, bill tracking,

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bet on, state tax management. Both Zero and quick Books

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can help you easily manage cash flow and keep your accounts,

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you know, in top shape. You can integrate Zero with

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Gusto for payroll. Quick Books you can manage your payroll

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with an additional plan through QuickBooks, So you know, that

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is something that you've got to consider when you're out

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there if you're going to be using one software or

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the other for payroll. So Zero you would go to

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an outside service being something like Gusto and then integrated

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into Zero, whereas quick Books you would have to use

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into its payroll service plans, and then you got to

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sit down and analyze, you know, which payroll software is better,

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truck or taxiles. We offer our own payroll service in house,

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which is fully managed by us, and then we integrate

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into our software as we go from there. Zero and

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quick Books can also offer minor tracking, also offer inventory

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management now and Zero you would have to have an

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additional plan to manage inventory that's not included in their

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twenty dollars a month plan, and then both of them

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will allow you to do some project tracking when it

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comes to basically managing your company financials. My opinion, there's

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not very many platforms out there that are better than

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Zero or QuickBooks for that matter. You can look at

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some of the other ones, but you know, some of

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the other software that's out there is a little bit

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more difficult to use to be able to get those

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financial plans you know that you need or the financial

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statements you need to run your business properly. So you know,

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we're still looking at which is better, which is easier

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to use for you? You know, I consider it a

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tie when you're looking at the accounting tools that both

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platforms have. In some ways, some of the software and

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those cloud accounting platforms aren't easier than others. But it

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does take time and training to sometimes learn how to

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use both platforms to the best of the ability of

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the software that's out there. And so you know, when

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you're running the software, you've got to, you know, consider

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what's easy for you and what's going to make your

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life a little bit easier as you're moving down the

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road and using this software. And it could come down to,

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you know, the type of reports that you can get,

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can you modify the reports easily? Things like that that

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you as a user have to learn how to do

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to get the most information available to you at your

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own fingertips. And that's one of the nice things that

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to continue talking about the difference between the zero and

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quick books, and we're going to talk about bank can

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getting your data from the bank. We'll do that right

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after this.

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Here's your host carry chief thatum.

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Hey, welcome back. Talking about bank feeds bank connections. When

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you're using quick books or zero or any other software

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is out there, sometimes bank feeds are extremely important. Bank

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feeds can save you roughly five plus hours a week

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maybe more using bank feeds and downloading data from your bank,

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from your credit cards, you know, directly into your accounting

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software and creating those bank feeds sometimes is paint reading

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to take just a few minutes to do. It does

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require verification and putting your account numbers and passwords and everything,

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and every now and then you may have to go

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back in and renew them, or if you change your password,

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you've got to come in into updated in either one

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of the softwares now QuickBooks. It does support banks and

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thirty three different countries according to a survey conducted by

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quick Books. They say, you know it saves an average

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of ten hours a week. Kind of interesting. Zero It

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can connect with over twenty one thousand global financial institutions

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and reports say They say you could save roughly five

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and a half hours weekly. I don't know what the

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difference is between what quick book survey said up ten

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hours per week and zero's roughly five and a half

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hours a week. I really look at it just really

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depends on how many transactions you have going through your

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software through your bank, and you know it's going in

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and making sure that you have the connections in either

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software with the bank. And one of the nice things

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in software sometimes you can set up processes that will

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automatically take the data from the bank and apply it

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to the right accounts and put it in your software.

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Or if you're actually writing checks out of your software,

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it will do matching to where it'll match that check

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to the check that cleared the bank, as long as

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the dollar amounts and everything are one hundred percent correct,

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which if you're printing your checks from the software, that

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should not be an issue. But if you're manually writing

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the checks, sometimes that information could be transposed or put

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in incorrectly into the software when you're manually doing it.

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If there's no check there, you may have to manually

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tell it to enter that check when you're doing your

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bank reconciliations, so both software is pretty strong in this category.

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No matter which platform you use. You can connect your

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financial institution for the most part and get up to

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date financial information and streamline that accounting process, hopefully reducing

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some errors by eliminating the need to manually input the transactions.

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So this is another time in my opinion, and we

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really look at mostly US institutions and they're about on

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part between the two. Now, reporting and the dashboards. You know,

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having a user friendly dashboard in your software or being

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able to have good detailed reports you know you as

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a small business owner, being able to view the information

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at a glance is important. Now you can customize the

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dashboards in zero and in QuickBooks to show the data

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that's most important to you. You can add widgets for

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your checking account, your cash flow, monthly outlooks, upcoming bills,

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invoices to name a few. You can even do comparisons

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if you put budgets in your software for your business,

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which in one of our last episodes we just did

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was on budgeting, business and personal, so go back and

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listen to that, and now you can use the software

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to compare actuals to the budgets you create for your business. Now,

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how about this This could be really interesting price point

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on some of the software that's out there. If you

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do budgeting for personal you can use this software also

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in your personal finances to be able to see how

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you're doing versus the budget, so that you can maintain

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your personal financials right here in one of the accounting

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softwares that's out there as well. I know it's an

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added expense, but sometimes that at expense adds value, ease

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of use, and allows you to look quicker at where

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you stand, not just budget for a business, but budget

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in your personal life as well. Here's dashboards are easier.

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QuickBooks might be a little bit easier to use, maybe

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have a little bit better design than Zero's, but zeros

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are still very functional. May not offer the glitz and

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glamour and some of the polished that QuickBooks does, but

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they're very much functional and can be ease of us.

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it's easier to use, more functionality, and hey, some people

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say it's easier on the eyes. Me if you design

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it right. The functionality is good in either system integrations

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and automation. You know, accounting software, business software is complete

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without rations, and support for automated workflows. Zero and QuickBooks

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both offer it. Zero offers close to six hundred different

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integrations with leading counting tools, bookkeeping tools, reporting platforms, bills

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expense software and software like hub doc and offers things

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as platforms like payment platforms of you know strike that's

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out there. Quick Books offers seven hundred and fifty different integrations.

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is going to offer their merchant processing versus going to

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Stripe or one of the others that's out there that

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to integrates with Zero. You know, integrations and automation. You know,

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automation helps you handle the mundane chores, bringing up free

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end up your time and being able to do things

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that are more pressing sales, marketing, doing the things that

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you need to do to continue to grow your business.

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do it, it's complicated for both softwares to get the

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right automation, especially when you're using bank feeds and things

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like that. But once you have it set, both are

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very powerful. Both become very user friendly, and both will

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allow you to reduce that manual data entry because of

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the rules you've created to handle the reoccurring charges or

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the reoccurring invoices, things like that. This again is a tie,

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even though QuickBooks offers more types of integrations, because you're

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talking about six hundred plus companies with zero and versus

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seven hundred and fifty, so of the integrations aren't going

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to matter the important ones. One of the things that

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you might really take a close look at is the

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merchant fees difference between the providers that Zero has for

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payment processing versus using quick Books and into it to

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process your transactions as well. File storage. People don't think

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about file storage, but both QuickBooks and Zero allow you

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to add five files documents to transactions so you can

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better understand them. You can attach the JPEGs, PDFs and

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so forth, and we're documents and other documents to transactions.

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a packing slip or any other supporting documents that you need.

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It's a nice way to keep up with your documents

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that go along with the bills. You know, it's pretty

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easy to do it in Zero. Sometimes it it's easy

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to do in quick Books, depending on how their systems

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are running. At times. Uploading through their mobile app in

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most cases take seconds. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer.

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Zero does offer one thing. QuickBooks doesn't centralize file management location,

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which makes that file management much easier. Zero is the

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winner in that case. And we're going to take a

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quick break. When we come back, We're going to talk

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about mobile applications, the differences between Zero and QuickBooks, and

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we'll do that right after this.

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We have only scratched the surface of today's show. Please

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Let's get back to tax stock for you with more

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tax stock once again.

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Here's your host, Barry chief Fallo.

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Hey, welcome back. Talking about mobile applications. You know we

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look and compare QuickBooks and Zero. You know they've got

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mobile apps, Trucker Tax Tools, Reeve redesigning our mobile app.

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We need your help. If you're a trucker over the road, trucker,

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you know, what are you looking for in an app?

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Besides these abuse Our neapp right now is going to

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make it easy for you to upload bank statements to us,

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our statements settlement statements to us. We're going to refine

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this to be able to help you track your per

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deems right there on our mobile app. That hopefully when

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you leave home and you put your home location in

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and you leave that location, it'll ask if you started

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your trip, and if you started your trip, it'll start

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tracking your per diems until you return back to your

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home base. That don't make life a little bit easier

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being able to track days nights that you have on

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the road so you can get every dollar of per

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diem that you have coming to you. What else would

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you be looking for? We're going to have it connected

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to our portals so that you can see your financial

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statements timely, maybe connected to our software to be able

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to look at software as it's we're reporting and being

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able to access the reports we're going to generate right

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through the software for you and be able to answer

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questions for us right there online, be able to communicate back.

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But what else is a trucker would you want in

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your mobile app with Trucker tax Tools? Hey, message us

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at support at Trucker tax tools dot com. Again, support

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at Trucker tax tools dot com and let us know

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what you'd be looking for in a great mobile app

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for truckers. We will even possibly be putting truck parking

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on there in other providers to the trucking industry as

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we continue to grow this app with our partners out

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there to make this your be all, end all app

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for trucking. Hey, you know talking about mobile applications with

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zero and QuickBooks, Hey, who's the best? You know? Both

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softwares have their Android and iOS applications to allow you

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as a user send invoices, reconcile transactions, scan upload receipts,

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upload documents, images, track payments, monitor your cash flow and

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even show possibly your account dashboards to look and make

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it easier to see what's happening in your business. Well,

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I've seen it on zero and I'm seeing it be

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very fluid, very lag free. One of the differences QuickBooks

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does allow you in their mobile app to track trips

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with GPS, so that if you actually start the GPS

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when you start your trip, then when your grip is complete,

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the application will log your mileage and can generate a

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detailed mileage report. Now this isn't for you as an

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over road trucker tracking your mileage there you can, because

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you would have to differential differentiate between the tracking mileage

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while out in your eighteen wheeler tractor versus mileage when

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you're on your personal vehicle running to one of the

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stores to pick up supplies or parts or pick up

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your truck from a repair place. So you would have

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to differentiate between the two so that you know, we

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can properly record a mileage on your tax return for

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the use of your personal vehicle, but it would be

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a good way to be able to do that as well.

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So mobile apps are pretty even between the two, but

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you have to give them too, quick Books if you're

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able to use it for your GPS tracking, for personal

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use of your vehicle. I've seen value. So when it

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comes across their significant differences, and it's gonna sway every

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business a different way. You know, the free trial. Both

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of them are going to give you those thirty days

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free trial. Yeah, they both ask you for your credit

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card and if you forget to cancel, they start billing

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you monthly. Base plan you can go to the Early

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Plan and it's twenty dollars a month, but you can

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go to quick and quick Books. You got the Simple

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Start for thirty five a month, but at Simple Start

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with quick Books you got one user plus your accountant.

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In zero, the Early Plane is twenty dollars a month again,

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but it's unlimited users. Intermediate Plan zero doesn't have anything

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that's intermediate, but QuickBooks does have sixty five dollars a month,

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three users plus an account. They're mid Plan zero does

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charge you forty seven dollars a month, again unlimited users.

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five users and the account. Top Plans Zero's Top Plan

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is only eighty dollars and the unlimited users still versus

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Quick Books is two hundred and thirty five dollars a month.

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But it does support you know, twenty five users. Now,

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inventory management, okay, you will have to buy this module

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if you're using zero. So if you're managing inventory, you

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will have inventory management costs of thirty nine dollars a month.

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But you've got to be on the growing plan or

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the established plan, so that means you got to be

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at the mid or the top plan for zero. In

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quick books, you can track inventory at no extra cost

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when you're in their bid plan or their advanced plan

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that's not going to be down in the essentials or

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the simple start. Payroll processing. Now we talked about payroll

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processing with Gusto. You have to use an integrated provider.

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Gusto is one of their integrated providers. QuickBooks has its

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own internal payroll system payroll over there. It's going to

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cost you fifty dollars a month plus six dollars per

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employee a month. Premium payroll is eighty five dollars a

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month and nine dollars per employee. Really is one hundred

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and thirty plus eleven per employee. Now for payroll services,

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you have to look at what that covers. Does it

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cover you know, filing the quarterly reports or do you

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have to make sure the report's wild. So that is

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a decision. You've got to sit on it and make

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the Gusto or Patriot software for payroll processing, using with

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zero is one good way of going because it's relatively

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inexpensive and they do most everything for you. But you

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do have to go in and process your your payroll,

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which you pretty much have to do with quick books

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as well. So here's my verdict on this. We're converting

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everything over to zero. We've been a provider and user

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of QuickBooks for many, many years. The cost of QuickBooks

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continues to increase in rise, and our costs have gone

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through the roof. Using QuickBooks now zero because it does

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allow us to use unlimited number of users, it has

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been fairly easy for us to manage. The integrations have

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been a lot easier for us to use than what

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QuickBooks has offered, including things which is just scanning a

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PDFO bank statement and uploading it where zero will actually

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put it all together for us. So zero has made

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it easy now as a small business owner, if you're

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looking to keep your expenses down, then zero again is

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a good value for you and you should jump over

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to zero. After testing both QuickBooks and Zero, you know

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both platforms offer strong features. I do not like QuickBooks

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online because of some of the things we've got to

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jump through to do in our industry to be able

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to work through financials, verifying and making sure they're right.

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We have found Zero to be easier to use in

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our opinion, but that's not shared by everybody, and not

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even everyone of my bookkeeper share is the same opinion

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on quick Books versus Zero. But change is heart. If

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you're looking at it for a mobile app to be

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able to maintain your accounting or the GPS, quick Books

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has it. So which project management counting software is best

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for you? Personal choice, That's really what it comes down to.

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Personal choice. We're going to take a quick break when

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we come back, We're going to kind of take a

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quick overview of fresh Books and that sweet may be

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a little bit on stage, We're going to do that

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right after this.

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We have only scratched the surface of play's show. Please

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stand by as Barry Chief Fauer will be right back with.

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Tax talk for you.

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As an owner operator, you already spend too much time

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away from your family. Stop spending time doing pay for work.

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life run smoothly. Let's get back to tax stock for

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you with more tax stock once again.

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Here's your host, Barry G.

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Foller.

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Hey, ayay, welcome back Trucker tax Tools. We're developing our

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own mobile app, and we shut down our previous one

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because of some issues within the software and the maintenance

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costs of that mobile app, and so we're developing our

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current app around gathering information and sending it to us,

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adding things like p DM tracking and being able to

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look at your financials and communication between us and you

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while you're on the road to make that life easier

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for you. What kind of things would you be looking

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for in the app as an over road trucker send

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us that to support at Trucker tax tools dot com. Again,

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support at Trucker tax tools dot com, or you can

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go right to Trucker tax tools dot com. Go over

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there and put in your contact information and we'll call you.

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Let's discuss what you would be looking for in a

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mobile app. And by the way, Trucker tax Tools is

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offering a fantastic deal twenty five dollars a week for bookkeeping,

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just twenty five dollars. You're talking about life changing and

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saving money. Hey, compare that to doing it yourself just

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in the soft So depending on which software you're choosing,

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for just a little over sixty dollars more a month,

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you get people that are taken care of your bookkeeping

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for you, doing it on our platform to where you

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don't have to mess with it at all. Calls today

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eight seven seven nine six six two four seven seven

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again eight seven seven nine sixty six two four seven seven,

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and we had a question about you know, fresh books.

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You know, fresh Books versus zero or fresh Books versus

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quick Books. You know, fresh books is loved by some people,

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especially small business owners that you know don't have a

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counting background. It's, you know, fairly easy, makes it easy

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to get what you need. Customization and I don't feel

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is quite as good workflows and automations, and they're invoicing

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is pretty easy to automate, especially if you're doing the

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same kind of invoicing time again. Price, Hey, their starting

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price about nine to fifty ten dollars a month, and

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then every user you add is eleven dollars, so you know, hey,

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I have not used fresh Books very much, so for

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me to recommend it, I don't see it. The next

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one was next Sweek, and you know, again, when when

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you sit down and look at it, you're comparing a

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software that isn't used by many small businesses because it

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does have custom pricing, which means it's a comprehensive solution

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with advanced features. It has things like CRM and it

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ERP e commerce solutions, but it is also more expensive

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and requires a custom quote. So I don't know that

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I would jump into you know, net Suite as a

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small business owner, unless, of course, maybe I'm doing e

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commerce and I want to embed everything including uh CRM,

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you know, with it as well. The other option was Sage,

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and we've looked at Sage a few different times, but

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Sage seems to have a lot of different modules. You know,

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does it make it easier use I think people are

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more familiar with zero and quick books, then it makes

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it a little bit harder to show people or train

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people on how to use Sage. And you know, when

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you look at Sage's website, there's really not pricing on there.

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You've really got to fill out a form, get a quote,

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so it makes it hard to say, hey, this is

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going to be the right way to do it, so

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you know you've got to sit in and really look

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at it. If you're in the trucking and transportation industry,

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again I urge you to use truck or Tax Tools

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and go to truck or tax tools dot com. But

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if you're do it yourself for zero is a good

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way of doing your bookkeeping so that you can have

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financial reports there at your fingertips. But you can't go

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wrong if you were to use QuickBooks as well. I

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know our staff sometimes has trouble using quick Books online.

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We prefer the desktop version, but many people can't get

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the desktop version anymore, and they're pushing everybody to the

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online versions of their softwares. And zero is hosted only

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in the clouds, so it's not a desktop version. But

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if you're an over the road trucker, having access anywhere

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you are as long as you have Wi Fi doesn't

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hurt you whatsoever. So being in small businesses zone, go

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through and do your own analysis. Look at the software,

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look at the comparisons, see what each one of them

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has to offer before you decide this is where I

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want to be. If you're doing invoice, you have to

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realize it's going to cost you more than twenty dollars

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a month, And especially if you're doing a lot of invoicing.

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If you're only doing maybe four or five, then you

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know that twenty dollars a month is something that you

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can get away with. But if you're processing ten twenty

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thirty invoices every single week, then you've got to look

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at that mid base plan. And I would look at

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the mid base plan in either QuickBooks or Zero before

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I would jump off into the base plans. You know

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at that. So, now what makes life easier? Software? You know,

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whether you choose Fresh Books, zero, quick Books, Stage that suite, whatever,

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the accounting software that you have out there that you

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choose to run your business through, that software makes life easier.

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Using a bookkeeping service that is built for truckers around truckers,

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like truck or Tax Tools, makes life even easier for

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you because all you're doing is submitting to us your

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settlement statements, your bank statements, your credit card statements, your

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cash receipts. We work with you to make sure that

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we find every possible deduction there is out there, and

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if you go to Tax Talk for You and you subscribe,

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you can go back and look at all of our podcasts.

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You can go to iHeart, Spotify, all the major sites

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that host podcasts we're on, and you can look at

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Trucking one on one when we talk about truck bookkeeping,

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trucker taxes, what to do and how to save money

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on your taxes. Built around the trucking industry, and I

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think next week I'm going to be talking on Landline

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Media's podcasts on ida's Media Center and talking about what

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receipts to keep and other information for truckers while you're

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on the road and over the road and the best

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way of doing the bookkeeping. So make sure you look

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for us with the Landline. We'll get that out when

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that's going to be played so that you can hear

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that broadcast with Landline Media. And don't forget to tune

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in every Monday right here in Tax Talk for You

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W four C Y Radio Talk for TV and keep

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up today with what we're talking about. To help you

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run your small business or ourger business. Maybe you have two, three,

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four or five trucks, we do bookkeeping for you as

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well to help you run your business better, help you

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find every deduction that you have. We understand how important

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you are to the transportation industry, that you are important

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to keep in this economy running. That is why our

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team is dedicated to you. In the trucking industry, tax

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knowledge is important. Understanding truck driver taxes is just important.

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have a tax problem and we can't save you money.

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And one other thing. If you're a W two truck driver,

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go keeping in taxes isn't that important to you because

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you're a W two driver, But maybe you're thinking about

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getting out owner operator running business by yourself. Oh oh

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Ida Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association. One's a fantastic seminar

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been a trucker, I'm looking to expand it. I want

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truck to Success. Sign up there, come and join us.

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Hey again, thank you very much for tuning in. Share

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this with all your trucking friends that are out there

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so that we can communicate and save you money on

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taxes and teach you what you need to know to

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maximize your profit, minimize your tax and be the best

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owner operator business owner there is country. Thank you for

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tuning in. Subscribe to Tax Talk for You dot com.

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Have a god bless glorious week. We'll see you next

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week ten am Monday, right here on Tax Talking for

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You dot com. Thank you.

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Are you an individual or business that wants to understand

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Time every Monday, right here on W FOURCY Radio and

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