Catherine

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I do know of lorem ipsum - but the bacon was a *serious* distraction.

Eric, how COULD you?!?! Now I want bacon. And steak. And a grilled burger. And lots of other yummies that I should not eat - at least, not all at once! Next time you feel the need to do something like this, use chores like dusting and laundry as your list. Or (if you think people will then feel guilty), something innocuous like plant names.

Welcome to the club, JJ! There are a few quirks but they are minor and the program is WELL worth the time it takes to learn those quirks. And support is SO helpful any time you need them. Except Sundays, of course. Considering that I am still awaiting the return call from tech support from ATX from February 2013 (promised within 48 hours), I can give Drake Sundays off.

The first time I ever saw these it confused the dickens out of me, too. But in and IRA = not reportable by the IRA holder. The plan... well, that's their lookout.

​ Hi JohnH -- I leave my tablet at home. I might use it for this forum: nothing secure here. I don't use it for email. I would use it - using the Ixquick search engine - for research on open sites; nothing that needs a login.

One HUGE problem with tablets is privacy/security. Look at the settings (and some of them are pretty deeply hidden): all the apps want access to EVERYTHING (Denninger at market-ticker dot org has had some*excellent* reports on tablet security; he used to run an ISP so I give his opinions much credence). So I will not use a tablet for anything that needs to be secure. It's great for the handouts for my CPE meetings; instead of big floppy bunches of paper just my tablet. It's great for pdf's of my talks. It's great for games. Won't use it for much else, though.

​You can always change it back and forth when working on Sage50. Possibly less of a pain in the patootie than the wonky screen of illegibility showing up randomly.

Thank you all! I have sent the info to the client and we'll see how much they grumble. I can't change a fundamental feature of the program for them so maybe they will just need to put on their big girl panties and deal.

It's very hard, sometimes, to protect them. Even if this gentleman was living with family -- if you really want to get out, you get out. My sympathies to the driver; that will be a nasty memory to live with. And to the family of the eld himself; they probably feel guilt as well as the loss of a family member.

So Rita -- and anyone else with Peachtree/Sage50 experience: I have some clients who were having all kinds of trouble with Peachtree/Sage50. I got it all squared away. However, one thing that Sage50 does is it closes net income to retained earnings only annually, at the year end close. For balance sheet reports during the year, you get the prior year retained earnings line plus the year to date net income on the next line down. Together they net to current retained earnings. The client wants reports that are GAAP compliant and apparently these are not. (I don't know; I'm an EA not a CPA and am interested in bookkeeping and accounting that present an accurate picture, whether or not GAAP compliant.) Does anyone have a work-around for this?

Always good to have a reminder. Signs of Stroke

KC -- It was he who called the bank. Apparently he put "stop" orders on a slew of checks. The IRS, MassDOR, and I just happened to be on the happy list. I will write and ask them to abate. Once I hear back from the daughter with any additional details she has. Thanks to all.

Elderly client - his daughter has *just* (and I mean, like last week) put him into assisted living for memory issues. Wrote a check to me for tax prep, and to both the feds and state for tax due. Called his bank and put "stop payment" orders on all three. Feds are hitting him for penalties & interest because of this. (I will just charge him the $5 bank fee from my bank.) His daughter has a durable POA and has taken the checkbook away from him - and the address book with the bank number in it, too. *She* will be writing new checks all around. So it won't happen a second time. But my question is: Anyone ever have any luck getting these abated due to senile taxpayer doing something nonsensical?

Eric, are you saying that Rita's computer has a "Brain Cloud"?!?! Joe Vs Volcano - trailer If so, "I have absolutely NO response to that!"

Sounds like the "blow me" bit is getting tripped.

​I just googled that one and WOW is it a big honking machine! I sure don't have room for something like that. Both of my "real" scanners (not counting my multi-function machine that scans just a little faster than I can copy-by-hand but is useful for the rare page or two) are small enough to sit on the desktop and behave themselves by staying out of the way.

Just as a raw guess (NOT being the computer expert some here are), I'd check the display settings on your machine *and* in Peachtree to see if there is some offset that takes a hissy fit after a while. Does it go away if you close the program and re-open? Or do you have to reboot the machine (with or without your special pointy kicking boots).

I love the TWAIN-compatible Kodak ScanMate i1120 but the drivers were never updated to work with Windows 7. HOWEVER -- it runs just fine from Adobe, and probably from other software. All you lose is the quick-start buttons and those are not that useful if all your scans are going to different places. The Fuji ScanSnap S1500 is also good but I think the more-vertical paper path of the Kodak is less susceptible to jams.

​I have no problem with the circles. Although there are days that's what I feel like I'm running in.

Thank you SO very much, Eric! I could not believe how much I missed the forum while you had it off-line. I do miss the "preview" of topics and the ability to jump to the first unread. But that's just me being picky.

I do the same as Ron -- schedule payments & let the clients know when & how much. I have NO signature authority. A couple of clients I don't even have checks; I send a "paystub" that includes net check amount and they hand-write a check for the net amount and give the stub with all the withholding info. One guy I print a check and mail it to the employee to bring to him for signature -- he's so flaky he kept *losing* the un-signed checks when I mailed them straight to him! (Then once he used an old "I found it!" check and gave that to the employee in place of the one for that week which he had lost. That caused no end of trouble with check numbers and dates etc and he got read the riot act and the checks started going to the employee.)

Thank you, Judy!! Will order those forms right now; I used to know that but had forgotten after years of e-filing.

Maybe by the time it's back up I will have figured out how to offload a video from my camcorder *and* put it up on YouTube to link here, of my daughter Gwen in the. most. amazing. Viennese. waltz. ever. just last night.

One shortcoming of the Drake 1099 and W-2 prep is that it will NOT create "corrected" files -- at least for 1099's; don't recall about W-2C's off-hand. So I have one set of 1099's that need a correction and while we've sent out the paper copies to recipients I have to find the right paper file forms. Drake's paper print-out has "Client Copy" as a watermark....