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Introducing Xero Business Essentials - Banking Video Quickly Corrected

I was very glad to see the new Introducing Xero Business Essentials videos. An initial Banking video error showed that this video was not made with the actual Xero program, but Xero fixed that very quickly.

The video expertly used a generic word (parking) in a Rule (Bank Rule), with an "any text field" contains condition. However, it then assigned the Payee to Viaduct Parking. As the initial video showed, this generic rule affected many different parking locations. Therefore, the Payee should have been Parking or simply Payee. However, the initial video made the payee Viaduct Parking. It then showed a screen that ignored the Viaduct Parking payee designation (at 2:39), in favor of three different filled in payees.

Rules are very important, because every condition in every Rules makes it so you never again have to manually post entries. Xero progessionals can easily create more than 75 Rules, with an average of 10 conditions each. Some of these Rules can make all deposits post to sales, so thousands of items post automatically. In accounts that do not write manual checks, we often see 98% of entries accounted for automatically.

Equally important, the Cash Coding screen (available to Financial Advisors from the Bank Reconciliation screen) is far faster and more effective that the old Bank Reconciliation screen. Xero already had an amazing video on properly using Cash Coding - really fast. It shows that Cash Coding is far better than many users think, which is why I will mention many more Xero issues in my next post, The Fastest and Easiest Xero Entries.

Before doing that, however, I must let Joshua Farmer, an Online Learning Specialist at Xero, make an amazing comment. Joshua is responsible for creating video training and self paced online learning content at Xero. I published the initial version of this post at 3:52 PM Eastern U.S. time, on 4/17/13. Joshua actually fixed the video and posted his comment less than 9 hours later (my approval delayed the posting of his response).

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Fastest and Easiest Accounting Video: Xero

Please watch this outstanding video on Xero, the fastest and easiest accounting software. Then consider that you need not learn ANYTHING about Xero or QuickBooks Online. Closely supervised CPA and bookeeping experts can use either program to do ALL your accounting and reports for as little as $39 a month, INCLUDING the cost of either program. We can add automatic payroll and 1099s for as little as $17 a month and $1 a month. A $25 basic setup is FREE with an annual agreement, We even offer a FREE three month trial with no credit card.

Unless you like working for nothing, you cannot come close to this.

Xero - Beautiful accounting software for small business

We have been QuickBooks and Quicken experts since inception and Xero experts for 18 months. We had more U.S. Xero clients than anyone, but much larger firms now use Xero.

QuickBooks Online and Xero are among the very few full-featured programs that now automatically import all bank and credit card entries nightly. This is incredibly faster, easier, more accurate and safer than using QuickBooks desktop. That is why more than 50 million of us use some type of program that does this. It also is why I wrote 15 Reasons Why QuickBooks Desktop is the Worst Place for Your Data, though I was a real QuickBooks insider for 11 years. 

After all, there have to be some very good reasons why QuickBooks Desktop has lost about 10% of its users in recent years, while Xero is growing by more than 100% a year. 

 

 

China in 2030, Video

We all should see this vision of China in 2030, over and over:

 

China in 2030 shows a professor lecturing a classroom, full of smug students, about the fall of empires like the Greeks, Romans, British and the United States. As he says:

They all make the same mistakes. Turning their backs on the principles that made them great. America tried to spend and tax itself out of a great recession. Enormous so-called "stimulus" spending, massive changes to health care, government takeover of private industries and crushing debt.

Of course, the professor says, because the Chinese owned that debt, they are now masters of the Americans.

The students laugh.

"You can change the future. You have to," says an urgent voice, concluding China in 2030.

 

Alaskan Hummingbirds Video

I hope you enjoy this Alaskan hummingbirds video. 

I never saw hummingbirds hand fed, as shown in this Taming the Alaskan Hummingbirds video. The quality of this Alaskan hummingbirds video is outstanding. However, the related YouTube comments suggest that this quality will soon be common.

This Alaskan hummingbirds video comment also mentions these amazing birds in south Florida, so they must come almost everywhere:

My mothers friend made a vest with clear plastic pockets.
She inserts test tubes full of red nectar and then takes her
flock for slow walks around the neighborhood. She visits the
elderly folks, giving them a daily smile. This is in south
 Florida. On a good day, up to 55 birds follow her.

The friend who sent this said they are due here about the second week in May. Our many Butterfly World hummingbirds cannot spoil us for the wild hummingbirds.

 

Of course, it is really hard to work when visitors like these are within five feet.

Dropbox Video, Dropbox Videos

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Here is a Dropbox video (Dropbox Videos):

If the Dropbox video does not appear in your copy of this Dropbox Video then click this Get Dropbox here! link or paste this into your browser: 
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These links will let you see the Dropbox video or a text version of the Dropbox video. They also will let you download the Dropbox program in a way that gives me an extra 250m of free storage, on top of my free 2g. You can get this extra storage by inviting your friends as well.

By the way, here are 24,000+ web links to Dropbox videos.