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Articles from Montana Farm and Ranch Business Management, LLC

You may have come here looking for our old website, mfrbm.com.  We consolidated operations and have moved the best content here.

What is “From MFRBM.com” Anyway?

Several years ago we ran two separate consulting companies – one for production agricultural clients and one for the rest. We have streamlined into this one company. That made things easier administratively but that company had an established website and we hadn’t gotten around to a site for this company until recently. To fix that […]

October 25, 2016 By Kristin Aus · Filed Under: Computer Tips, From MFRBM.com, QuickBooks Tips

Handling Personal Transactions in the Ranch’s QuickBooks Company File

If your farm or ranch is a sole proprietorship, how do you handle personal transactions, business transactions, and split transactions?  This is a common question so I thought I’d address it. First and foremost, please consider getting a separate business bank account for your farm and ranch transactions.  Keeping a separate personal and business account […]

July 4, 2013 By Kristin Aus · Filed Under: Computer Tips, From MFRBM.com

How to Move Your Thunderbird Address Book

If you use Thunderbird for your email software, this article will describe how to get your address book file saved to a jump drive.  You’ll need to do that either when you move your email to another computer or you want to back up your address book.  Doing that on occasion is a very good […]

March 12, 2013 By Kristin Aus · Filed Under: Computer Tips, From MFRBM.com Tagged With: Email, Thunderbird

How to Record Credit Card Transactions in QuickBooks

“How do I handle payments to credits cards in QuickBooks?  We hear that question frequently, so I thought I’d go ahead and answer it here.  The problem is, like so many computer-related questions, the answer is that it depends. We recommend different approaches to handling credit cards in QuickBooks depending on the a few factors.  […]

March 5, 2013 By Kristin Aus · Filed Under: From MFRBM.com, QuickBooks Tips Tagged With: Accounting, Credit Cards, Liabilities, QuickBooks

How to Print Reports for Your Accountant

Different accountants have different reports they like to see, so this is just a general guideline. It would be best to find out exactly what reports they want. If that doesn’t happen, here’s a fallback position. You can find Reports either by bringing up the Report Center or by using the Report menu at the […]

December 5, 2012 By Kristin Aus · Filed Under: From MFRBM.com, QuickBooks Tips Tagged With: QuickBooks, Reports

Offsite Backups Just Got Easier

This is a fun topic for once!  Normally, when I talk about backing up files, I’m struggling to think of the best of the bad alternatives.  CDs and DVDs are a pain but cheap and easy to store offsite.  External hard drives are easier but not cheap and most of us don’t want to scatter […]

January 16, 2012 By Kristin Aus · Filed Under: Computer Tips, From MFRBM.com Tagged With: Computers

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