Name: Intuit Lacerte: Automations & Workflow Tools
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Description: Intuit Lacerte: Automations & Workflow Tools

Transcript for "Intuit Lacerte: Automations & Workflow Tools": Assert automation and workflow tools. That's a mouthful. I am very happy to be here today, and I hope that, you are going to enjoy the content. I've got a lot to share, so I can talk somewhat fast. Hopefully, you'll be able to, keep up with my, banter. Alright. So let me just tell you a little bit about me. I am Randy Sorensen. You can see all about me up on the screen. And I know the only thing you care about is, does she use Lacert? The answer is yes. I've been using Lacert since 1993, which probably tells you how old I was. I am. However, I started late, so, you know, you never know. But, I, you know, looked at other softwares along the way and over the years, and I always go back to Lacert. You know? I just anything I look at, it's like it just isn't as comprehensive or as complete. So LeCerte is it, you know, hands down, and that's why I love doing these, webinars because I love talking about it and sharing with you all the things that it does. So, just a few housekeeping things and rules. Hopefully, if you don't hear me, you see the screen that the webcast will screen, exclusively through your computer speakers. So you need to make sure that your speakers are on. As I said, it's on the screen. So if you can't hear me, you at least can read that. We do recommend using Chrome or Safari. I know that, sometimes you'll be in, the webinars and, you know, all of a sudden the screen freezes or something like that. If you're in Chrome or Safari, that usually does not happen. You wanna make sure you don't have any of the ad blockers or firewalls or anything up because, again, that can cause problems. And then at the end, there is going to be a survey. So we're gonna, know, ask you to please complete it. And I would look at it as paying it forward because when you make comments, whether they're good or bad, you know, we take those to heart. We look at those and say, okay. What is it that we did wrong? What is it that we did right? What do you want more of? What do you want less of? So those, surveys are really helpful. So we do ask that you please complete them, at the end of the webinar. Now we do have polls. There is, I believe, two polls in this webinar, and you do need to answer those to these. There's two ways to do it. You can see on the pictures, on you know, one is on the lower left area. The other one is, will pop up on your screen, and you'll see the, question. I'll read it out also. And then you will, just click on the radio dial, which answers your the question for you. And then usually give everyone about a minute so everyone can get on board. And then once you do it, we're gonna get back into the content. So we don't wanna waste too much time on, being in the polls when we have so much to share. Here is our disclaimer. And I always say this anyway. You know, I'm not here to give you tax advice. I know nothing about any of you out there that are listening to this most likely. And so, of course, I can't give you tax advice, because I don't know your situation. So, that's really what this talks about is that you do need to, you know, if you have if you're not a tax professional, you know, you need to talk to one, to get the those type of answers. We don't talk about, tax, any answer any tax questions. This is eligible for CPE. It is one credit for, CPE or one for CE credit. You do have to, answer the interactive polling questions, and you need to, also attend a minimum of fifty minutes. So, you know, the computer keeps track. You don't have to. But if you don't do those things, you will not be eligible to receive the certificate. But if you are, you're gonna get a certificate. It'll be, you know, emailed to you. You actually would be able to, usually come back in here and and, grab it from here. But, make sure that you check whatever email address you use to sign up because that is where the certificate will go. And then check your junk, you know, if you haven't received it in your junk mail or you're unsubscribed. I lose lots of things in my unsubscribe, even more than I do in my junk mail. So make sure you're checking there if you haven't gotten the email. So these are the things that we're gonna cover. Some of these, look deceptively small. So the Intuit link, it stands on its own, but the data automation has a lot of different things inside of it. We'll probably spend, a good amount of time in there. And then, you know, the invoicing via QuickBooks, Protection Plus. I love this. I'm I'm excited to talk about Protection Plus with you. Pay by refund and quick employer, forms. So some interesting things to talk about today. So we're gonna start with the poll. This is poll number one, and the question is, what is your primary reason for attending this webinar? And you can see that there are the answers, that you you can choose from to earn free CPE, and who doesn't want to earn free CPE? We all need to get it. Right? To explore a new solution, to solve a specific problem, just general interest in education, or some other reason. So we just need to choose the radio dial that best fits your, your answer. And then, once you do that, and it'll save it for us, and we can move on. And I'll give you a little bit of time here to think about it and and to use your answer. I mean, you know, for me, I like coming first of all, I mean, I need CPE. So I'm always going to whatever I can, to get, you know, free because it can get expensive, and there are certain ones that you just have to pay for anyway. So I might well, get to be one when I can. But, also, you know, this is a way to see, you know, what what is this software about? Will this do what I want it to do? You know, and there's a lot of webinars like this that are, you know, show different parts of the, Intuit products, some of which I do, some of which I don't, but they're all very informative. And so, we'll show you a link at the end that you can go to, so that, you know, you can actually watch others and learn more about the product. Okay. So let's go on. We're gonna get into the Intuit link, and I'm gonna I'm gonna move in and out of the product, out of the search. And at some point, I'll actually go into, QBO. But, some of the things will be on the screen, and then I'll go into a certain show them to you later. I don't, you know, I don't wanna go back and forth too much because it takes a lot of time to transition. But, you know, I'll remember to show you, hopefully, show you these things when we get into the cert also. But so the first thing is Intuit link. And, I think that the Intuit link is to me, it's like a filing cabinet. I have all the information on my clients in this Intuit link, and there are so many things I can do through Intuit link. And, you know, this is just the first screen that pops up when you click on Intuit link, and it sort of tells you a little bit about it. And then here are some of the things that it does, and and I'll go over these. I mean, it talks about, and I don't need to read to you because I wanna explain these things too, but I wanna just sort of read these quickly is, you can easily send the tax organizer electronically. So if you don't know, the tax organizer is, a document that gets sent to your and your clients. It can get sent with an engagement letter with, you know, a customized, email, and a checklist. So and I'll show you that in a little bit. But, the organizer is really helpful in taking information, you know, that it you know, we look at what happened last year and said, okay. Well, you had a Wells Fargo account last year. What do you have in Wells Fargo this year? And it lists out the things from the previous year. As a matter of fact, when we go into the tax organizer to get it, we go into the previous year. So when, you know, let's say, it's 2022, and I won't wanna do it for, you know, 2023. I'm gonna go into 2022 and get it ready. And it's been the same, you know, for that long. So, not the Intuit link necessarily, but how we get the organizers. And so it it's, you know, one way to get the organizer out to your clients. It captures all your client tax data, and it's in a single portal. And that's where I did sort of like a filing cabinet because you're, you can ask your clients to send something to you, and they can upload it right into the Intuit link, which is their little file cabinet. And you can keep track of on there what you asked them to get you and what they've gotten you. And so, like, you know, okay. What's still missing? And it'll send out reminders to them. It'll send out, you know, to you, oh, hey. They uploaded some stuff. Come look at it. So, you know, it keeps, a lot of information about that client. And, you know, you can keep it in there. I mean, you don't have to move it on to your server wherever if you don't want to. I sort of recommend that you do. I just like to have things in two places, but it it will be there on the portal. And the nice thing, as I said, about the portal is that, you know, if you got it, it's telling you that it's here. If you didn't, it's, you know, gonna remind you that, oh, hey. You still need this. And, you know, you can keep everything altogether for, the different tax years. So it's really nice to be able to, you know, have that one place to go. I'm you know, use up your workflow because everything's together. Well, that's true. I mean, I'll have to go hunting for things. And I'm the worst person for filing there ever was. I have no skill at filing, and so this for me is just really easy because I just have the one place to put it. And I don't have to try and remember what the heck did I do with it. And then you can, there's a dashboard, so you can look at the dashboard easily. Just sort of like, you know, we're so used to looking at the dashboards for all the different softwares now, and it's the same thing. It's just that place where I can look and, get the information, and I'll show you that in a little bit. And, also, it is safe. So I don't have to worry that, you know, this information is going to go rogue. When it gets uploaded, it's secure. When I send out something to the client, it's secure. So I don't have to worry about it like I might have to with a third party software. It's all, as I said, you know, just really, kept securely and uploaded securely and such. I don't have to worry about that. And I'll show you, as I said, when I go to, into the cert. But here is what, you know, the screen will look like about how many people I how many clients I have, how many have, accepted in the invite that I sent, how many haven't. And, you know, so it gives that information, and then I can click on the client if they haven't uploaded something and find everything inside of their little, you know, we can call it file drawer or whatever you want to, but, in their their area in here. So that is about intuitlink. Link. I'm gonna run through really quickly all my notes because I have so many notes in, for all of these things that, I wanna make sure I didn't miss anything. So alright. So we're gonna move on to data ad automation. And then I said, when I go into assert, I will certainly look at the link there for you. So data automation, and, again, I'm gonna this stuff I'm gonna talk about now, and then we'll look at assert. But, in here, this data automation includes so many different things. And there's so many ways that, you know, our data is automated these days. You know, how things work together. And one of the things is the k one import and export and and also the different things like fixed asset import. But let me do this. You know what? I actually wanna go into the search because there's just so much easier when you see it. Alright. Give me a second here. I've gotta stop sharing this screen. And I go to the screen, And then I go here, and then I go here, and then I go here. You have lots of steps. So, okay. Now this comes up really small for me, so forgive me if I you know, you're seeing me squinting at the screen because, it is small. But the first thing I wanna show you while I'm here is the Intuit link. So if you see if I can find my mouse. There we go. You can see this column here that says Intuit link. And this column, tells us if we've invited somebody or not. And you can see, like, if I click on it, it's going to bring up, hey, Paywell. If you wanna invite this person, you can invite them. Here is the email that you can customize. You can send them an engagement letter through the link. And here, I can actually edit the engagement letter. So, or I could just not include it. But this is a great way to, you know, to start out in December, or November is actually sending this out and sending the engagement letters and the questionnaire, and I'll show you those in a second. Here's the engagement letter. And, now I personally don't love it when the firm name is here and the client name is there. I think it should be the other way around, but I'm old fashioned and I like to see things in the way I I learned years and years ago. You can see that I can actually, you know, highlight and cut and paste, but I can also, add a new one. You'll see here there's two. There's a double window default and a single window default, but I can add a whole new engagement letter in here. Let's say I did one in Word and I wanna just copy and paste it. I can highlight it, copy it, you know, cut it, and come in here and paste it, and then just hit, after I you know, I can hit add first to do that and then hit done. And then I have this new engagement letter that I can use, and that will go out with each of these as I send them. There's the questionnaire. And, again, I can edit that. Here's, the questionnaire. Now a lot of this is going based on what was in their previous or prior year tax return. And so it has the yes or no. But you can also add questions. And you see here, there's either yes or no or there's open ended. Now, of course, open ended is going to get you more of an explanation, which in some cases we want. But, you know, did your marital, status change during the year? Yes or no is fine, but open ended, you know, you're gonna get a yes or no. But open ended is they can explain, well, you know, we separated in this date and, you know, divorce isn't final or something like that. So you can choose each one whether you want it to be open ended or yes or no. I can easily delete them here under action on the right, just by throwing it in the trash can and then, you know, just clicking on how I can put as many as I want. But these are sort of the standard ones that, you know, we've been using for years. And, again, if you had some in here from last year, you don't have to worry about it because you'll see them here. So that's, you know, the the thing about the link that's right. Okay. I'm done. There no. Oh, all those checklist. I wanna show you, that was the questionnaire, and then here's the checklist. We almost forgot. Okay. So here is a checklist that is from flat for clients that we pro form a, the the clients that were in the, in Missouri the year before, and I clicked on a little magic button to pro form a, which we talk about in another webinar. And the data comes over to this year, and it's gonna, you know, again, look at some of the stuff and ask some questions, and I can add new requests. So, like, here it's saying, you know, please provide a statement of income and expenses. So, you know, the p and l from their business. But what if I want, you know, their w twos or, you know, I need a a death certificate or a birth certificate or whatever, I can add those new requests just by clicking on add new request and done. And then once I'm finished with this, I can click invite. And then it is working. And then, of course, there's nothing in here because I don't have any name. But it would then, at this point, say, you know, okay. We we sent them or, you know, here it's telling me there's a problem, and then I can just click okay. So that is, you know, where we get the Intuit link. I did wanna show you also, because I don't think we cover it anywhere else, is the, organizer. So I can send the organizer, through the Intuit link or I can, you know, send that, an eorganizer, either one. The organizer goes directly from, Lisert not into into through IntuitLink. But, all I gotta do to to get there is oh, jeez. Want the printer? I have a printer. Let's try it again. Let me pull up the other one. Tools. Sometimes you just can't get by. You need to print an organizer. I know that. Oh, because I'm in 2024. Okay. Well, what would happen is you remember that screen that we saw that gave us the three choices of, you know, we can update the engagement letter and all of that. We're gonna get the same thing when it comes to, you know, whether I'd be in organizer goes through the Intuit link or we do the eorganizer. And, you know, it gives us the ability to send those out. And if we did the eorganizer outside of the link, then the organizer, can be filled in by our clients, and then they send it back. And then it automatically actually, imports data directly into the client's, into their information immediately. And if they send it through the link, then we manually do have to put it in, but we have the information altogether in that, in the organizer. So, again, it's organized. Go figure. So I wanted to show you that. Now the other thing that we just talked about that you saw the slide on was the, k one. So I'm gonna actually move out of individual and going to go to, the client. I'm so sorry, but I can barely see. Here we go. Client. I'm gonna go to a n s corp, I think. And then there's there's a company here. So one of the nice things is when you, have clients that you do their businesses and then you do their individual tax return, we end up with all these k ones. And, you know, who wants to have to sit there and put all the information in from the k one manually? Well, all I've gotta do is now I'm in their business, and I'm gonna go to, screen here, 36. And now it's 30 six in the s corp. It's gonna be a different page in the partnership or, the ten sixty five. You just have to find the screen that that is called the schedule k one miscellaneous info. I just don't remember what the screen number is or the input number is on the other modules. But here you can see just one thing. It's checked in pink. Export to shareholder k one data. So this is one thing I have to do here is is click that. The other thing is when I go and I put in the, shareholder information, I have to make sure that, that appear so I can show you. When I go to the shareholder information, I have to make sure that the, ID number or tax ID number is in there and it matches. So it has to actually be the same thing that I'm gonna put into the individual module. So I use all nine. That way, if I, need to get rep access, I don't have to pay for it just so you know. Rep access gives me the ability to, after I do the input, I can look at the forms and the diagnostics and all of that. So, or it's one of the ways that you pay for the services, Intuit has different programs that you'll wanna look into if you don't already have it. So now I'm gonna go back. You see where I have this? You saw the check mark. And now I go back and well, before I do that, I'm gonna go to tools, and I'm gonna go to data, k one data export. Now most of the time, it does it itself. There are certain times where if you do something in between, you know, having that box checked and finishing up in the business, that it doesn't export or it doesn't import. And if it doesn't do it automatically, then you just hit k one data export. But what usually happens is when I go to close it, it'll say, hey. You made changes to the k one. Do you want to, you know, export it? So it actually asks me. But I'm gonna force it now just in case. And so you can see here that it says, hey. I'm gonna export to, you know, Harrison Hunt. So I can click export. And then it just says, you know, that's done. But, hey. By the way, you have, no rep access out here. So you're gonna probably have a problem. So what I can do is I can go up here and say, I want rep access and transmit now. And then it gets rep back out access and then tools and payment data export right there. I mean, you'll notice also, like, when I'm working in the in the program, I'm like, I'm not the, you know, always exactly right here. I never I don't always know exactly where everything is, but, you know, because they're different modules and it's, you know, different in each module. But it's so easy to find. You know, that's what I love is that everything I do is, like, if I can't remember, I can search for it. You've got search box up here. You've got, you know, find here. It so it makes it easy to find things if you can see what the screen says. Okay. So now I'm going individual, and I'm gonna go to Harrison Hudges all the way down here. You see at the bottom. I'm gonna click on that, and you can see this screen that just opened up, schedule k one data import. It shows me what was in here prior, and you can see it was all zeros and then the new amount they're gonna put in. There's some general information in here and, some diagnostics. And, you know, I wanna look at everything that's here, and then I want to accept the data. Now I don't have to accept the data, but, you know, if everything's correct as it should have been from when I was, you know, working on the corporation, then I'm able to accept the data right here. And it just tells me I'm about to override something. You know, when these boxes come up, by the way, always read them. Don't you know, we're so used to being on the web and and, oh, oh, I don't need that or need that and clicking off of things. And sometimes when we're in a program, we forget. It's like, no. No. Read it. You might, you know, you might do something this bad. But in this case, we do want to accept this. So I'm gonna say yes. And then it's gonna say the transfer was complete, and it opens it up. And now I have this pass through k one in here. And when I go down, I can see that the information has been input as matches. Now there's no state information in here just because this is a demo file and that we don't have the states in the demo file. But, the one thing that you don't get when it imports it, and you have to remember this, this is important, is that it does not tell us if this is, hold on. I gotta find the place. If this is passive or not, so you need to remember this box, not a passive activity. If they're actively participated in real estate or if they're a real estate professional. Those three boxes are not populated. So if you do that import, you know, export import, you need to make sure you come back and you check these. Very important. Okay. Now, the other things that we can, import. And there's a lot of different, you know, little things. So the next thing we talked about was the fixed, fixed assets. So I can come here to tools. I can come here to, no. Let's actually go to import. That's the easiest tax report right here. And you can see different things that I can import. You can see it here. I can import the trial balance. I can import the schedule d. And, you know, I one of the things I love about the cert and QBO is that there's so many different ways to go about things, but I don't have to, you know, just go one way. Like, I can be looking through these, icons and say, hey. What does this do? And all I gotta do once I close that is just roll over it and it'll say oops. I clicked on something, easy to do. I can roll over it and it'll tell me here. This is client status. Click, you know, for appointments, calculator. So there's all these different things that I can do up here as well as the drop down and, you know, when I can find things here or going to the table of contents right here. So right now, we're gonna look at, the import, and I can import a schedule d or the fixed assets. And so let's look at this the fixed assets. And it should open in a second or it opens on another screen. Let's see if I can find it. There it is. Okay. So here is the fixed asset import wizard. You know, it's just like any other program that has steps. They give you a wizard to go through. I can get started here by choosing whether this is for, schedule c, farm income, or rental, royalty, schedule e. I can click on let's see. We'll go with, just it doesn't matter if this appointment was just making it up. And then I can go to, you know, if there's an activity name or number. So in other words, let's say they have, four schedule e's, I would be able to choose from, this drop down here. I can find the file to input. Let's see if I can find it. I have a, one I made up on my desktop. And let's see if I modified the date. Yeah. Of course. I'm not gonna be able to find it. Where did it go? Let's see. Sorry. I'm giving you a minute here. I gotta wanna find it because I put just a few things in it, but, you can never find things when you need them on your desktop. Okay. Oh, here. It is the third one down. Okay. So I'm here. I'm putting in the you know, what I'm browsing for, and I have options here on the, you know, import options. So I can, add fixed assets to client, existing information. I can replace stuff. I can put it in new. So I get to choose that. I click next. And, you know, here, it tells which worksheet of that spreadsheet do I wanna use. Is there a template? And then it gives me the headers of the columns that are in the spreadsheet. So here I'm gonna select the head header and you can see the different play headers that are in there. And, let's say this was, you know, description. And then and you can see here, by the way, this first row is, actually my headers. And so I'm going to ignore it. And when I do that, it's going to put a line through it. But in the meantime, I wanna make sure I match what each thing is. So this first one is description. This cuts cost or basis, and I'm gonna click on here. And so you see, like, in my spreadsheet, I had cost or basis with the slash. But, Lacert has cost for basis, and that's fine because what I'm doing is I'm mapping them. And that's why I'm saying, hey. My cash slash slash basis is the same as Lacert's cost or basis. And, you know, I put the date in. All I gotta do is find it. Date, place, and service right there. And then the next one is category. And in category, when I'm importing assets, you'll see here I have to have the, asset put in by number. But, you know, it pops up with a very helpful little screen there. And so once again, I've got more anything in this row because this row is just headers, and I already have my headers here. And I can click if the state is different, by the way, if it's called you know, I call it something different up for the state returns, but, again, we don't have the state returns here. I click next, and it is going to, verify the information of what you want. It gives me the screen to look at. And then, I can, you know, ignore certain things. I can see that there was a desk in there for a 150 that was on the list, and so that's great. I don't wanna ignore that. And, I have the method within here. So oh, here. Federal method. So I want to choose from this where the what the federal method is. So, I'll go with, five year here. I can see and then finish. And then it's gonna say, hey. Are we sure that we wanna do this? It's gonna be added to the tax file, and I can say yes and continue. I'm actually not going to do that because it just it take time to for the import, so I'm not gonna bother. But, anyway, you saw the steps that we go through. And, you know, the important things is, of course, the mapping and, you know, having your spreadsheet easy to read so that, you know, if you have a bunch of columns that you don't need, I would take them out before I import them so you don't have this big mess. And then here, it's just telling me I haven't finished the import, which we know. So alright. Let's get out of here. I actually want accent type. Yep. It says it's gonna read it because I hit no, and I should have hit yes. Yes. I want to get out of here. I don't wanna keep it for later. Okay. There we go. So reading makes, helps so you're not making mistakes. Okay. So that was how to in do the fixed asset import. I can do the same thing with the, it is the what did I say? The k one. And I can do a schedule d that way. So that's really helpful. Let's see what else I have in my data automation. I wanna be able to, not go back and forth, but I'm going to stop sharing for a second. And then we're gonna go back to the we go down here to the slides and take that on. Group aside and share. Here we go. Alright. Let me share that. So we're gonna move down. And so let's see. I think we left off here. There it is. There we go. Okay. So, I talked about the schedule b import wizard, so that's another thing that, you can import. And then the other the not the other thing. Another thing is financial institute download. So most, places, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, whatever, where is no. We're just lost there. I can't remember. Anyway, all of these companies, you know, have a download into an Excel spreadsheet. And so you can download from the institution and get it into that Excel spreadsheet and, import it. And you can do, it says there's 275 financial institutions. Well, that's a lot. So the majority of them do have the ability to interact with listservs. And, you know, you can do the w twos. You could do time 98, ten ninety nine. All of those can be directly into the ten forty. And you use just basically the same thing I just showed you. It's gonna be, you know, where what column do you want it in? Where, you know, where do you want it on the tax return? So there's a lot of automation in this where we don't have to be manually inputting information. So the next thing is the, invoicing via QuickBooks. So invoicing via QuickBooks is nice that, again, you don't have to do things twice. You have, you know, everything just, close from one to the other. And I am going to this looks like I'm missing a slide here. There was the trial balance I get. Somehow, I think this is missing one slide, which is our trial balance that we can have imported from our QuickBooks. And so what I'm gonna do here is, actually, I'm going to stop sharing here and go to, back into the cert. So hang on one second. Want to go to screen, and I want to go to entire screen. I want to go here. I hope this is slow. There's a lot of clicking here. Go to share, and I just shared the wrong one. Okay. Let me I'm sorry. You know what? I'll just move it down here so you can see. So okay. So here is QBO. And in QBO, I'm getting some weird feedback, which is weird. Okay. In QBO, I have a sample company open. And what I can do is I can, you know, get ready to import my tax information. So, you know, we open up our client. I can go here to, new, but I usually go through most of the things under accountants tools. And you can see here I can prep for taxes. So I'm gonna go here, prep for taxes. It's gonna open up this whole, you know, screen here, which is, you know, like a dashboard. We have our year end tasks, and these are the different things that we need to do for year end. And you can see that right now they're to do, but once we're done doing them, we can say it's either waiting or done. So, like, sending an engagement letter. Well, we send it, but we're waiting for it. And, again, you can do this through that, the Intuit link. So that's nice too. But, you know, reviewing the trial balance, making adjusting entries. So here's that, you know, dashboard where you can go through and say, okay. I've done it or I haven't done it, and you can come back and look really easily to see what the status is. Here I have, the documents that I, that that we can put all of our our information, request and review, and adjust, and then grouping in statements. This is just for your financial, statements. But the important thing for Lacert and q b, QBO or QBOA is this tax mapping. So I can come here, and I'm gonna look at each one of these, and I'm gonna say, okay. This is the tax line. So here is salary and wages. What is this in, in QBOA or, like, here with rent? And then if it's not the same, if it's if $62.95 isn't the same thing that you want on line 11 of the tax return, you can come here and edit it. And so it gives us the ability to get everything mapped. And then from there, we just easily upload it into the search, and now we have most of our tax return done for us. And this is pretty cool. I mean, once you set this up, unless you're changing the chart of accounts often, which, of course, you shouldn't, then this is great because it take care of it for you without having to, you know, I don't even have to touch it twice. I'm touching it once in, QuickBooks, or I have my bookkeeper checking it and taking care of it in QuickBooks. And then I have an accountant or a tax preparer making sure the mapping is correct. And then, as I said, I just put it into the cert, and then we just check the cert and make sure that the cert has, you know, everything's imported correctly. And I can make any adjustments or add anything additional just directly into the cert. So I think this is really, a time saver. And, you know, there's just no reason not to use it because you're the one deciding where things go. So it's not like anything's going to just populate all by itself and, you know, you didn't make the choice of where it's going to go. And then again, you know, here we can make our journal entries and anything that we need to, before we have the information brought over. So, you know, this is something that I, you know, I just think, you know, more people should be using it, then I don't see enough people using it. So the next thing that I wanted to show you was the, using the third trial balance utility. And, if you're using it in the hosted environment, the steps that I'm gonna go through is what you could do. There's different steps if you're going to, put in a CSV or an Excel file first. But we're going to go to, it depends also, by the way, if you're in right networks or, you know, which is tied with your, you know, some of your QBOs licenses. But, you don't if you if you are, you're just gonna have a couple different steps, little little differences. Okay. So I'm going to go back to my list search. So I'm gonna close this. And, in list search, I'm going to go to trial balance, and that is right here. Okay. And let's see. It probably opened somewhere I can't see. There we go. Okay. So it brings us to this trial balance utility. And I'm going to, you know, I can import clients now or I can add new company. Let's see if I, you're just gonna let me yeah. So you're gonna want it in. You can see it from, EVX, from Excel, or from QuickBooks. And so I can do from QuickBooks. Maybe. It might not be because these are demo files, it doesn't things don't always do exactly what we want. But here you can see that what I'm gonna what you know, you can tell that it's going to bring over, the trial balance. And in the trial balance, it's going you know, it's gonna give me the ability to make journal entries and get it ready to import. Let me just see what happens here. Yeah. Then it's not gonna work there. But, you can see from this screen that that's where we would do that. And we can, again, import from a CVS, CSV, or, Excel. So, and we would set up the columns pretty much the same way we did when we were doing the k one data import. So it would look the same. So sorry. I can't show you that. Just just some of the things, you know, make it a little more difficult. But, let's move on to hold on one second. I wanna make sure I don't miss anything. You know, bank statements, of course, you know that you can do that with, with QBO, you know, to make sure everything is reconciled. Of course, you wanna do that again before you transfer things over into Lazard using, that import feature. So now I wanna move on, talk about and that is, something that is relatively new. And what it is, it's a form of, QuickBooks that is, let's say, the lowest level of QuickBooks, and it's, I'm gonna see if I can find a slide for it. I don't see that. Okay. So I think we're missing that slide. But sorry. But I think it's even more simplistic than that. And it's for companies that, you know, maybe they do one or two transactions, maybe up to 10 transactions a month. Maybe they have a you know, like, we just really wanna do the basics. And, you know, so you can actually start by uploading a chart of accounts. You don't have to, start from blank, but you can, you know, take one and customize it. Or if you wanna start with, you know, from blank, you can. You can connect your client's bank fees, and that's either by inviting them to enter the info in Ledger, or you can use your account's access to the bank feed. You know, and you can upload your transactions, you know, from the bank state, see all the transaction data using the bank feeds just like you do in any of the other room. And, you know, you don't have to have a spreadsheet to do all this. You can do this in the ledger. There is some bank rules that you're able or again, we can do that. You can give your client view only access. So in other words, if we keep track of the ledger and put the things in there or we can give access to the client just to see them and not touch them because we don't want them to mess it up. That's a possibility. We can also get some financial statements and reports. So it's while it's a very low you can also get, by the way, ten ninety nine, tracking. Complex, and that's it. You can actually have your client sign up for it and get all the information and then they can invite you. So, again, just like the other, QuickBooks, they don't have to worry about it. And, you can interact with your client through the my accountant tab. So, again, you can use that, you know, to go back and forth with the client. So pretty cool. Alright. Now when I look at the invoice and then go back here to the the slides, and we'll talk about, the invoicing via QuickBooks. And so there's two options to, to get your signature for all of my tax returns. And I can go from esignature and, you can see the screen that's up there. That's exactly what I would show you if I was in Lacert. So, I'm not gonna bother doing that. But, I can use that to, you know, say, yes. I want to integrate my, credit card or my merchant service account with the cert, or I can actually have a new account, a separate account if I wish. That's just up to, you know, up to you or how you, you know, you wanna do it. And then, the other way is I can export my billing to QuickBooks desktop. So, you know, that's allowed in Lacert. I would go into Lacert and say, you know, export, and I would do it that way. Alright. Now I am trying to close the wizard, that I had open, but it sucks. Okay. So we will move on here. And so let's talk about this protection plus. I want to make sure you really know what it is. And so I've never seen anything like this. And I actually talked to, my insurance agent because I wanted to know if this was an insurance or what it was. And and it's not an insurance. It's, you you pay a certain amount. So let's say I have a 100, you know, individual clients and I have 10 business clients. I have to pay a fee for all the individual clients. So, the fee is $10 and it's a 100 by 10. That's what I'm gonna pay them for my clients whether they be 5. I think it's 75. I could be wrong. It might be 65, but I think 75. And then I pay that for my business clients, again, whether they use it or not. But what this offers is that if, let's say, I get a letter from the IRS, I don't have to hand it over to, you know, my tax team and say, here, take care of this, write a response, you know, here's another CP 20, you know, 2,000. I can send it to them to this Protection Plus plan. I would upload my, their tax return, the letter, and anything else by payment that I get from my client, and they will take care of it. They'll, write a letter to the, taxing authority. They'll get whatever documents they need. They'll communicate with them. I don't have to do anything, and I don't have to pay anything else. Now, you know, whether you charge your clients for that or don't, that's up to you. They take care of all of it. So I don't have to, you know, do those letters anymore. And, you know, we you know, it's really nice that I don't have to take care of, you know, these letters because that this this plan is going to allow me to have that extra time so that we, you know, act partner and myself are signing all the tax returns. But, you know, we have enough time because we're not we're just gonna hire another tax, input person. And then, you know, we don't have to to spend hours to answer letters because, you know, you get them all the time. The more clients you get, the more letters you get. And that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong. It just means that they're, you know, the IRS couldn't read something, didn't read something, lost something. I don't know. Worry about. But if it is something you have to worry about, let's say the client's audited, that this program covers it. So and they are CPAs and, enrolled agents and tax attorneys that are working there. And those are the people that are answering these questions and they're dealing with your audit. Of course, they don't pay your tax, but or the penalties are such, but, you know, they will answer whatever they can. And if they find a way to make an improvement to your return, they will make those suggestions, or they'll include it in the letter or whatever that it is that they're doing. And so, you know, you know that they're really looking into everything and making sure that not only the letter, you know, the issue of the letter or notification was solved, But if there was any other way to improve the return, it can be improved. If it is an audit, they will take care of that audit up to a million dollars of expense. So, not, again, not tax, but the million dollars in, fighting the audit. And they will go to tax court for you also. So when I sign up for it, as they said, I have to pay for all my clients, they will upload the, client numbers, but they don't upload anything else. So they have none of my client's information until we approve of it. There is a form, that they clients will sign. It starts with seven and I can't maybe rethinking 77 something anyway. But it is a you know, it's sort of like a power of attorney, but it gives them limited, limited ability to help you. Not all of the, things that you can do with a, power of attorney. So, you know, you do have them sign that so that, of course, they this company can take care of everything. Oh, and it is $75. I just found that in my notes. And so, there is another way, by the way, to pay for it if you wanna do per return. It's, like, $59.95 per ten forty. If you want to have your client sign up and the form is a seventy two sixteen, you wanna find it. You know? The theory is that this is gonna do everything that we need. And it covered the client for three years from the April filing, deadline. So we pay for it once, but it covers them for three years. I don't have to pay every year. But it does not go backwards. So, like and it can also be used for state notices, so not but not local. It is I don't know. It just seems like a a no brainer to me to sign the client stuff. And I don't have to sign up the business client, which really makes it even better because then that's only $10 for the individual client. And how many times do you get notices for your business clients? For me, it seems like, you know, and my firm only takes, individual clients that have businesses. But it still seems like all of the employer inquiries or letters and such are for the individual returns. You are going to be, you know, covered. They'll help with notice notifying the bureaus and the banks, and they'll do a daily credit monitoring for six months, with the IRS and, you know, the state authority. And if you've ever gone through that, you know how horrible it is. So amazing. The next thing I'll just talk about is the k we've seen things like this before but never through the software, vaccine. And, basically, you sign up with one of two banks. And when you sign up, then, your refund is going to go directly to those banks. But in the meantime, you can actually have your, you can access some funds. So if you wanna access some of them, you know, from that you're gonna be refunded, you can. They will have a charge for the, for a fee. And then and up to $2,000. And then you can get paid sooner and, you know, have to wait for the IRS to, you know, you can get some money upfront and you can get paid. So that's the pay fund. You know, they they don't have the money to pay you right now and you get to wait. And that is very frustrating. You know, you did all the work. You helped them get the money back, and you should get the money back. And it's left. The next is the quick employer front, form. Things like the w two, ten ninety nine, the all the different stuff. It is a product of Intuit, so we know that, you know, they're doing it the right way. They will, you know, get whatever get whatever information they need to be able to, efile the forms and, you know, so they account in, for Intuit, you'll paired. And you can also do it, by the way, in Lacert through the tools menu, and you can print any files with w twos and ten ninety nines, etcetera. So that is, you know, just something that is really nice if there. And so, and it's called quick employer forms, and invoicing via QuickBooks, Protection Plus, pay by refund, and quick employer forms. Hopefully, you know, there there's a lot there, and hopefully, you got something from that. We do have another promo product before you buy. Please let us know by clicking on the, yes, please contact me. In that way, you'll get a call from and then I want to take just a couple minutes and talk about, you know, here you have some other, there's upcoming webinars and survey link we talked a little bit about in the handout. So I'm gonna, unsubscribe. Your, CE, is gonna be reported to the IRS using your PTIN. You don't need that for, because you won't get credit. And, I want to see here we go. Supporting community. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about this and other webinars. There's always some place you can go to get help, whether it's the education centers, the tax pro center, the, the name for the other one, the community center. And I think that, you know, by looking at find anywhere else, you can if you Google it, you couldn't find it. But if you go, you know, to one of those I'm gonna go backwards here. If you go to one of these, links right here, you're going to be able to get answers to all of your and so I hope to see you in one of the other ones that this was really helpful for you.