Chamber Seeks to Innovate Businesses Through QuickBooks™

The Los Fresnos Area Chamber of Commerce general meeting was held on Tuesday, August 26 at the Los Fresnos Inn & Suites meeting room.

While the focus of the meeting was the addition of the QuickBooks™, Executive Director, Val Champion started things off with an introduced the new members. The new members included State Farm Agency Intern David Armendariz and Plains Capital Bank representative Arnie Gonzalez.

Both new inductees addressed those in attendance and thanked the Los Fresnos community for the opportunity to serve them.

Armendariz will begin serving the Los Fresnos community from a local office in early September and Gonzalez welcomed the community to visit the Olmito location, which he will be working out of, and reminded all that he is available to serve them.

Val Champion then introduced the guest speaker, Mr. Frank B. Klinger who is a QuickBooks™ Certified Pro-Advisor.

During his introduction, Mr. Klinger discussed a brief history of the origins and summary of the double entry accounting system and why it is still in use to this day. He also touched on the vital importance for businesses, especially small businesses, to take advantage of the technological advances and benefits of the QuickBooks™ software.

“The double entry accounting system was created in the 1440’s and is still currently use worldwide” said Klinger.

After setup of the QuickBooks™ software and instructional training a business owner can begin to understand the process. Klinger introduced to attendees a training schedule which outlined the major categories of QuickBooks™.

The software, which was designed and developed to save time and have accurate reporting for all sorts of companies, allows the user to manage files or modules to keep track of customers, vendors, employees, payroll and even sales taxes. The software is flexible enough to allow users to set individual company preferences and even user preferences.

The archive system in the software also makes it easier for a business to find older information at a client’s request.

Klinger shared that as current year’s version of the software are soon to be replaced by the upcoming version the older versions are available online and updates can be made to older versions.

Klinger explained that small businesses are served well with the Premier version and larger firms with the Enterprise version, in either case it is an innovative approach to conducting business in 2014 and ahead.