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Any Way to Report on Operating Profits Implied by Accounts Receivable? Will 05-09-2007
Posted by Will on May 9, 2007, 7:49 pm
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As a manager watching cash flows and managing against fixed operating costs,
what is more interesting to me than a regular Accounts Receivable report
would be a report that shows the operating profits for each accounts
receivable item and subtotaling that. Seeing the expected future
operating profits is much more meaningful to me since those operating
profits are what pay off fixed expenses and cost of goods.

The question is does QB 2007 include any way for me to encode within each
invoice line item what is our cost for the item? I realize the Quickbooks
inventory system has a way to do something like this, but our inventory
requirements are far more complex than what Quickbooks can do. It would
be fine for us to simply manually record our cost line by line within the
invoice, or as a single lump sum across the whole invoice.

Is there a way to do anything like this?

--
Will



Posted by Allan Martin on May 10, 2007, 8:33 am
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Nice to see your back with yet another question. This must be 1001 but whos
counting.



> As a manager watching cash flows and managing against fixed operating
> costs, what is more interesting to me than a regular Accounts Receivable
> report would be a report that shows the operating profits for each
> accounts receivable item and subtotaling that. Seeing the expected
> future operating profits is much more meaningful to me since those
> operating profits are what pay off fixed expenses and cost of goods.
>
> The question is does QB 2007 include any way for me to encode within each
> invoice line item what is our cost for the item? I realize the
> Quickbooks inventory system has a way to do something like this, but our
> inventory requirements are far more complex than what Quickbooks can do.
> It would be fine for us to simply manually record our cost line by line
> within the invoice, or as a single lump sum across the whole invoice.
>
> Is there a way to do anything like this?
>
> --
> Will
>



Posted by L on May 10, 2007, 10:35 am
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> Nice to see your back with yet another question. This must be 1001 but
> whos counting.
>
Probably the same folks counting sarcastic ng replies.

What happened, Allan? You were always good for a laugh, but used to be you
interspersed your 'wit' with valuable information.

QB take you off the beta test circle or something?



Posted by Allan Martin on May 10, 2007, 11:44 am
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>> Nice to see your back with yet another question. This must be 1001 but
>> whos counting.
>>
> Probably the same folks counting sarcastic ng replies.
>
> What happened, Allan? You were always good for a laugh, but used to be you
> interspersed your 'wit' with valuable information.
>
> QB take you off the beta test circle or something?


Our good friend Will has taken advantage of our good graces all to often.
From the very start it has been obvious that QB is not suited for his
business but he keeps on coming back. One can only imagine the nightmare
condition his files are in from pushing little QB far beyond its limits.

As far as wit, did you hear the one about two drunks having sex with an
aligator in the back of a bus in Florida?





>
>



Posted by HeyBub on May 10, 2007, 12:49 pm
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Allan Martin wrote:
>
> As far as wit, did you hear the one about two drunks having sex with
> an aligator in the back of a bus in Florida?

When arrested, one said "I deny the allegation" and the other said: "I curse
the alligators."



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