What's good y'all, it's your boy Ross back again with another video. So right now, check out funniest WWE bloopers of 2023. We are at the end of 2023. So we got to check out some of these funny moments from WWE or at least funny bloopers. Bloopers happen every year, things that are not supposed to happen. So it's good to be able to look back on some of the funny moments from WWE, whether it's from production crew, referees, wrestlers, announcers, whatever the case may be, this definitely should be a good one. Video will be brought to us by WrestleMania. So subscribe to wrestling if you haven't already. Looking forward to this. Let's get right into this one, man, a common part of wrestling due to the nature of pro wrestling. Mistakes can happen at any time. But thankfully, some botches are more comedic in nature. And fans and wrestlers alike can laugh at the hilarious blunders. A 2023 has been an incredible year in WWE. Yes, some of the botches that have been seen across TV and premium live events have made for some of the most memorable and funniest botches of all time. Join us now as WrestleMania looks at 10 of the funniest botches in WWE of 2023. Let's do it. Let's do it. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. Also, check out our new website, WrestleMania.com. Number 10, Nia Jax's WWE Return. Nia Jax made her surprise return to WWE at the 2023 Royal Rumble. Jax would return it in the illustrious number 30 spot in the women's rumble. And what should have been an impactful moment was ruined thanks to a rather comedic blunder by WWE's production team before the countdown had even commenced. Jax's theme randomly started to fight, and this led to a moment of sheer panic from everyone and WWE had no choice but to start the countdown, even though Jax's music was already playing, the other confusion on everyone's face in the crowd was hilarious. And it was a rare Royal Rumble botch from the production team. Number nine, it happens, man, it happens. It's part of the business. Sometimes people misspell wrestlers' names. We've seen that this year, just misspelling in their name on the graphic or getting the information wrong. So it happens. The Rumble curse. Speaking of the 2023 Royal Rumble, the Nia Jax botch wasn't the only blunder on the show. When Pat McAfee made his entrance to deliver commentary, he almost fell off his chair. And for a member of the production team holding the chair still, McAfee could have come crashing down through the commentary table. The chairs at the commentary desk would also play a key part in another botch in the show. And this occurred during Kofi Kingston's latest attempt to avoid elimination. Kingston's Rumble saver become one of the most exciting parts of the annual event. Yet in recent years, these once thrilling spots have seemingly gone wrong every single time. Yeah. In the 2023 Rumble, upon being thrown off the apron, it looked like the former WWE champion was hoping the land on the aforementioned chair, but he ended up falling to the ground. It looked like Kingston may have been injured during the botch, but thankfully it was reported that the WWE veteran was completely fine. Yeah, his little Rumble spots, they they haven't been working as of the past few years. Kingston would take to Twitter to make light of the situation by tweeting, Well, the universe has spoken, rest in peace, hashtag Royal Rumble. It's unknown if Kingston's tweet meant he was retiring the celebrated Rumble spots. And if that's the case, fans will be very disappointed when the 2024 Rumble fails to feature another heroic athletic spot from Kingston. If it works, it works. But I think, you know, it's always been cool for him to save himself. Like that's a cool one right there. But I think it's been kind of forced the last few years and they just haven't yet been able to successfully do it. So I think if they plan something really dope and he can actually hit it, maybe, but I don't know. I don't think they should focus on it too, too much going forward. Number eight, the L.A. Slip. L.A. Knight has had a tremendous 2023. L.A. has emerged to be one of the breakout stars of this year. And his meteoric rise has been an utter joy to witness. L.A. Knight has had several feuds over the course of the year, including feuds with the likes of the late great Bray Wyatt. We miss you, Bray. Loma Reigns and even Seamus. During one of his matches with Seamus in the summer of 2023, there was a huge botch that could have resulted in serious injury occurring. The botch occurred when Seamus was sitting prone on the turnbuckle and L.A. leaped onto the ropes. But he missed, yeah, he fell. And they sent the whole plant spot into disarray. It appeared that L.A. Knight was going to throw Seamus off the turnbuckle, but both men would fall to the outside. These types of botches can occur at any time in the WWE match. And it doesn't matter if it's two inexperienced talents or two tenured pros like L.A. Knight and Seamus. Sometimes botches and blenders can't be avoided. I mean, and he was able to rectify that. I believe that as Summer Slam in the Slim Jim Battle Royal, he was able to finally actually hit it in one go. But, you know, it happens when you get to that top rope. It could be very tricky. So it's one of the things that happened, but he was able to rectify it in the Battle Royal, the Slim Jim Battle Royal. And in a positive twist that the 2023 Summer Slam event during the Battle Royal to replicate the plant spot from the match and this time they thankfully nailed it. Yep. Number seven, Roman Reigns' slip. But it wasn't just L.A. Knight who had a notable slip whilst performing a spot in 2023 as undisputed champion Roman Reigns also slipped the ring live on SmackDown. On the July 28th, 2023 edition of the blue brand, Reigns entered the ring and attempted to attack Jey Uso. Reigns' slip within the first few seconds of him being in the ring, yet Reigns immediately popped back up to his feet and delivered the plant spot. Which is really good of his awareness to be up that quick. Like it looked like it was, it was, he was supposed to slip. That's what made it, you know, not noticeable. It looked like he was supposed to actually slip, but that was that was good recovery by Roman Reigns there. His recovery was so incredibly smooth that the botch almost looked planned. Yeah. Number six, Seth Rollins splits his pants.  Yeah. It can lead to great embarrassment. Yet when Seth Rollins split his pants all the way around to the ring on Raw, Rollins decided to embrace the hilarious situation. Rollins would like to address the incident in a backstage interview, and it was great to see Rollins and WWE make the awkward situation into something that everyone could collectively laugh at. Brock Lesnar also had an entire malfunction in 2023 as during his match with Cody Rhodes at the SummerSlam Premium Live event, Lesnar somehow managed to rip his shorts. While it was a weird visual seeing Lesnar with ripped shorts, it did add to the idea that both Lesnar and Rhodes had been through a violent back-and-forth battle. Number five, Sammy Security Guard. The role of an arena security guard should be able to keep fans as well as the wrestlers themselves absolutely safe. Now it goes without saying that if anyone is going to come through the crowd for an interference spot then the security needs to be informed or else things can go horribly wrong. In early 2023, during the match between Bianca Belair and Alexa Bliss on Raw, Bliss would become distracted by a man in an Uncle Howdy mask at ringside. As the distraction spot was about to go down, a security guard tried to pull the individual in the mask back. The security guard evidently hadn't been informed of what was planned, and it was obvious that the mysterious man and the mask had to bring character to inform the security guard that it was actually part of the show. While some offered criticism towards the security guard, at the end of the day, he was simply doing his job. He's doing his job, which is good. You want them, obviously, he didn't know the plan, but you want them to at least be vigilant enough to do their job. So, you know, in case somebody does try some crazy stuff out there. If WWE had correctly informed the man of what was planned, then this situation could have easily been avoided. Number four, representing the Judgment Day. WWE's resident ring announcer for Raw, Samantha Irvin, is incredible in her role, just like her plenty of games that have come before her, such as Howard Finkiel, and Aileen Garcia. Irvin offers a new yet welcome spin on ring announcing. At the Money in the Bank event from London, England, in the summer of 2023, Irvin showed that even someone as gifted as her can have a comedic blunder from time to time. During Bayley's entrance for the Women's Man in the Bank Lantern Match, Irvin, for whatever reason, decided to introduce Bayley as a member of the Judgment Day. Irvin had her stables mixed up as she was meant to say that Bayley was a member of the Damage Control faction. Speaking on the Out of Character podcast, she would discuss the blunder and she would issue an apology if it took anyone out of the moment. Just like, well, first of all, I was like, hey, it is what it is, you know, you got to keep rolling. It's fine. I knew that what the what the women were about to come out and do was far more important than that. So I was like, OK, I'm going to just hit up Bayley after and apologize because, you know, I messed up her intro and she was cool that she's like, whatever. And then she just was making fun of me about it. And so once I knew she was fine, I was OK. For the fans, for the reaction that I got, I think it it made me really realize, like, wow, you you did it. And if I was a smarter businesswoman, I would have done it on purpose because it's been the response has been overwhelming, honestly. So I do apologize to everybody that I took out of the moment because that's what I would feel bad about. You know, everyone to take anyone out of the magic of the moment. So if I did that for someone, then I do apologize because it was not intentional. Number three, it happens, man. It happens. It's it's one of those things. It's it's one of those funny blunders. Michael Cole does it all the time on Monday Night Raw. He'll say someone's name is not someone's name. It's funny, you know, we understand, man. It's it's it's part of the business. Sometimes you get mixed up and make mistakes. It's cool. It's if it took someone out of the match that much, then where they like, come on, man, you shouldn't get that taken out of the match because the announcer messed up that normally doesn't mess up. Like, I don't know about that, but that was it's a light heart funny moment and Bailey wasn't chipping. It's all good. Three, tribal combat confusion. The main event at the 2023 Summer Slime Show saw Roman Reigns defend his undisputed title against Jey Uso. The match would be contested under tribal combat, which essentially meant that nobody was permits to interfere. That's what we thought. Ain't no DQ. The distinct stipulation was thrown out of the window when WWE booked Solo Sokoa to interfere in the match. In that WWE completely botched the main event of one of the biggest shows of the year. Fans were utterly confused and it was presented as a big deal that Sokoa was interfering. Yeah, it was apparent that WWE had forgotten that the tribal combat match wasn't supposed to feature any interference whatsoever. Things went bad to worse when Jey Uso also interfered during the final stages of the once anticipated match. The tribal combat match was an utter disaster and it's often labeled as one of the biggest disappointments at 2023. Everything else leading up to the match, feud, all this was great. And then tribal combat, I'm like, all right, cool. So basically it's just a no DQ, but none of the family members can interfere. But then they interfere. That's when I was like, yep, they jumped a shark. They jumped a shark on this state. They completely, I don't know what they were thinking. That was no fun match. But no, we didn't get no answer. No, it would have been cool if we could have seen more of their family members, their elders involved in the match. That would have been cool. Could have had some of the family members saying, no, blocking them. No, you can't go in the match. No, get out of here, something. It's just a no DQ match. That's all it became. But to Damien Priest gets confused. Mr. Money in the Bank Damien Priest has had a career defining year in WWE. Yet Priest was also involved in one of the funniest, yet well recovered botches of the calendar year. Two weeks following the 2023 Royal Rumble, Priest, along with other members of the Judgment Day, would interrupt Edge and Beth Phoenix. And Priest managed to deliver his promo completely wrong. Priest would state that he was gonna enter the Money in the Bank ladder match, as opposed to the schedule elimination chamber. It was an awkward yet comedic moment as Priest would pause and then realize he got the name of the match type incorrect. And he recovered well, as he verbally played after Judgment Day member Finn Balor and the promo segment was quickly able to move forward. And number one, The Miz Breaks character. The Miz has a reputation for being the constant professional in WWE. Yet in early 2023, he had such a funny blunder. The Miz couldn't even help himself in breaking character. The Miz would take part in a promo segment on SmackDown with Austin Theory and The New Day, and in a rare instance, The Miz would butcher his lines. The Miz was supposed to say that there's nothing more dangerous than him having a title on his shoulder, but the words simply couldn't come out. The Miz started to laugh live on air. The botchers made even funnier thanks to Xavier Woods and Kofi King's reaction. I don't think I've seen this segment. As he both found great humor in the situation. I don't think I've actually seen that segment. I may have to go back and watch that. I don't think I've seen that segment of him couldn't, he couldn't get the lines out. So he just started laughing. I may have to watch that. I don't think I've seen that. That's funny, man. It happens. That's why it's a live show. It's a live show. Sometimes they're live shows. Other times they get to record them. But for the most part, it's a live show. So these things happen. These things tend to, you know, be a part of the show. So it's not going to be perfect.  So the fact that The Miz, who rarely messes up on promos or anything like that, messed up so bad he just had to start laughing. Like, you can embrace it, man. You can definitely embrace it. But comment down below, let me know. Some other funny bloopers from 2023, from WWE. There's been a lot from Michael Cole. Like literally a lot from Michael Cole himself. So comment some of those down below if you remember them. But I appreciate all love and support. Got Sean on channel, wrote to 150K. Now I'm still getting speedy YouTube restaurants throughout the world. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all on the next one. Peace.


Ushate, seka ya kutosha. Una manifesto pesa? Una manifesto, una manifesto asas. Alright, so. Udi of young bro kande famous. So, maybe from the top we didn't get introduced yourself. Oh yeah, my name is Osoro. Osoro, Osoro, umbi yamu ono kabisa. Osoro the trend. Osoro, Orba, Bapaminas, Bwana yawinja. Vitu ni nyingi na panya hita ondi oniba e kinyaso. Aha, bro. Nikwaj, Muandishi, Mwegizaji. Milionea? Akta, writer, presenter, sometimes things like that. Alright. Milionea wakati moja inakuja. I do understand we're here for one course. Meku na zatwebia ni ni haswa imewa leta hapa? Actu metu leta hapa, of course ni moja weitu, amekwa through hard time, mugonjuwa, that's a kuku danger.  And of course to show the world maybe weitu pamoja, siniki tu kemoja. Yeah. Solidarity. Solidarity ni kitumuimusana kwa industry. When something happens to one of us, it happens to all of us. So ni o manatu kwa apaleo, kuhaki kisha kumbakwa. First of all we are very grateful that he is okay, that a kuku danger is now going through the process of recovery. That's a good thing. His a kuku danger is out of danger. Yes. Kilii chobaki sasa ni kuhu make sure he is also out of danger economically. Economically. Ndomana tumefika. Mabiko wali amba waju, you guys have been close to a kuku danger. Mabiko nisha one experience you've been with a kuku danger? Yeah, I think surprisingly before kwa admitted hosi, nili kwa tulkot mefanyanae shoya the trend. That's me and Amina. Tulkot mefanyanae competition ni a kukula samaki. Then the next thing unaskia ni a kuku a kua hospitali and then the last memory kona yo ni muki kula samaki. Not something good. I think that's why I'm here. Yes. As in because we've had quite a number of experiences but that was my last experience before now to Amiwe. Jamali kwa tupua na ako hosi kifua o sayako ICU. It was really a traumatizing moment for us and basically we thank God. We thank God for life and that's why we're here. Yeah. I think personally I've known a kuku for the longest time tumefanyanae. Tumefanyanae. Atakwa safari is a Churchill shop. Back then nili kwa ni na fanya as a creative team ya Churchill shop and exactly. Tumefanyanae job in the creative process tu na create pamoja sa zingine tu na enda ina work, sa zingine ina katak work tu na pigiana simu tu na ambiana ina irobit fanyanini one or two times. Also to be fanyanae kwa the trend for the few times that Tame kwa he's been able to appear on the show. Yeah, so we've known each other for quite a while and a kuku is a good guy.  He's just a good guy. Yes. We've seen fans have come through a lot for a kuku. Maybe one word to the fans and then I can let you go. Tuna shikurusana. We are here because of you. Bila ma fans. Sisi what we are doing is nothing. We are the only business that depends on people who watch us. We are dependent on you that took your payaburudani support. All those who've come through for our brother kuku danger please keep being with us. Asante ni sana. Yeah, of course, just to echo what my colleague brother said that we are because of you guys and of course the fact that kumeja huku guys have come out in large numbers. It means a kuku was a good guy ama is a good person. Effortlessly what wame kuja. Effortlessly people have been raising money. People have been giving out whatever little they have. So I think it's a lesson to all of us just be a good person out there. Alright, thank you so much for the time. Have a nice time. SPM donyubani. SPM donyubani. Salimia wa kurugezi wa.


We got pre-rental expenses. You can deduct your ordinary and necessary expenses for managing, conserving, and maintaining rental property from the time you make it available for rent. So now we have a question of, well, what if I'm just holding on to the property, and it's not actually being rented at this point in time, but obviously I have to maintain it because I have an intent to rent it. Now, this gets a little bit messy because oftentimes with rental property, people sometimes hold on to the property primarily. There might have a primarily purpose of the property going up in value and getting value increase and possibly a capital gain when they sell the property as opposed to trying the principal purpose being rental income. So then you have to get into the question of, well, were you actually intending to rent out the property or you're just trying to write off expenses of like investment property or something like that, right? But you would think that if your intention is to rent it, then obviously the payments that you're incurring to maintain the property that's going to be rental property even though someone is not in it at the particular moment would be deductible if no one gets in it and in some time you might have losses on that property and losses are what the IRS is going to be skeptical of with this passive rental property stuff. All right, rental of equipment. So you can deduct rent, you pay for equipment that you use for rental purposes. However, in some cases, lease contracts are actually purchase contracts if so you can't deduct these payments. So if you're renting equipment, you can deduct the payments of the equipment that you're renting, but sometimes for different reasons they structure something to look like a lease, but it's actually a purchase in reality because you're going to in essence pay the full purchase price by the end of the where you're going to have a you're going to purchase it by the end or something like that in which case inform it's a lease, but in actuality it's a purchase. So you can recover the cost of purchase equipment through depreciation. So if it's a purchase, you've got to depreciate it. If it's a lease, you expense the lease payments when they come up. So rental of property, you can deduct the rent you pay for property that you use for rental purposes. If you buy a lease held a leasehold for rental purposes, you can deduct an equal part of the cost each each year over the term of the lease. So travel expenses, you can deduct the ordinary and necessary expenses of traveling away from home if the primary purpose of this trip is to collect rental income or to manage, conserve or maintain your rental property. So similar kind of concept that we had with the Schedule C type of business. Normal traveling is within the local community. If it's overnight, then it's going to be in the category of travel as opposed to just auto possibly. So you must properly allocate your expenses between rental and non-rental activities. You can't deduct the cost of traveling away from home if the primary purpose of the trip is to improve the property. The cost of improvements is recovered by taking depreciation. So we have that same concept again. If you're trying to improve the property, then the cost, from our perspective, we would like to expense it. But the IRS is saying, well, no, that's part of the cost of your improvements, which you would have to put on the books as an asset and not get the benefit of the expense until you depreciate. So for information on travel expenses, you can see chapter one of publication 463 on the IRS website. Uncollected rent. So if you are a cash based taxpayer, don't deduct uncollected rent because you haven't included it in your income. It's not deductible. So if you use an accrual method, report income when you earn it. So if you are unable to collect the rent, you may be able to deduct it as business bad debt. In other words, if you have your system on a cash based system and someone just doesn't pay you the rent, well, you're not going to be able to deduct bad debt expense if you're on a cash based system because you never recorded the income. You just never would have recorded the income. But if you are on the cruel system, you would have recorded the income in the month that they used it. You would have invoiced them. You would have been tracking the accounts receivable.  So then you would get a deduction. So see chapter 10 of publication 535 for more information about business bad debts, vacant rental property. If you hold property for rental purposes, you may be able to deduct your ordinary necessary expenses, including depreciation for managing, conserving and maintaining the property while the property is vacant. However, you can't deduct any loss of rental income for the period the property is vacant. So there is our situation with the properties not being used. You would think that if your intent is to use it for rental property, you would still get the deductions, but the iris is skeptical of the losses because if you get losses, then you might be able to deduct them against other income. And that's where the iris is skeptical of this whole situation. So they get while listed for sale. If you sell property, you held for rental purposes, you can deduct the ordinary and necessary expenses for managing, conserving or maintaining the property until it is sold. If the property isn't held out and available for rent while listed for sale, the expenses aren't deductible rental expenses. Points. So the term points is often used to describe some of the charges paid or treated as paid by a borrower to take out a loan or a mortgage. So now when we have rental property for purchasing the rental property, we take a loan out to finance the purchase of the rental property. We're going to have to pay interest on the loans. And then sometimes you have this weird things where they structure points and points could be different things. They could be payments for part of the borrowing process or they could be like prepayments of interest or something like that, in which case the question is how are we going to treat those? Do we get to deduct them in the current period? Do we get to call them interest? Do we have to put them on the books and amortize them over the cost of the property, which is a very long time frame, or possibly over the life of the loan as points, which might be a little bit less than the life of the property. So these charges are also called loan organization fees, maximum loan charges, or premium charges. Any of these charges, points that are solely for the use of money, are interest. Because points are prepaid interest, you generally can't deduct the full amount and the year paid, but must deduct the interest over the term of the loan. So the general idea is that, well, you're prepaying the interest, so the governments can say, well, they are interest, but you prepaid them. So you're going to have to put them on the books as an asset, not depreciate them necessarily, not depreciate them as a capital asset part of the property. They're not included as part of the cost of the building, in other words, and depreciated over the life of the building, but rather over the life of the loan.


the month so that we can see two payments and see how they are different and recognize the issue that happens because of that when we try to automate this transaction. So let's do this one first, simple transaction. We're gonna go to the first tab. I'm gonna select the plus button and we'll just use a, let's use a check form. We could use an expense or a check form. I'll use a check form. All right, so we're gonna say this is, let's say the loan is with Chase. So I'm gonna put Chase in here just as a bank and this is actually gonna be a vendor. So I'm gonna say Chase Vendor because I have a customer, but I wanna make it a vendor. And I'm gonna say, there it is. I'm gonna say save it. And we're gonna go from the bank account. So we'll pay it out of the bank account. That makes sense. So we're gonna say that this is gonna happen as of the new month. So I'll say the beginning of the month. We're gonna imagine that first payment went out in February. The check number actually should be the 16th or 1016, because I want that to match what's on my bank statements. And I think that's what's on the bank statement that should populate automatically once we're in sync. But I think we made an adjustment to it in a prior presentation, so it's a little off. All right, so this is the first transaction that has two accounts impacted down below. The first thing that might come to mind is the loan payable account because that's what we're paying off. Loan payable. So we're gonna say loan payable amount but it's not gonna go down by the full amount that we're paying. So if I then look at what I'm gonna pay, it's 1-3-5-8-73, but the loan payable is only gonna be going down by the 1-0-5-8-7-3 because interest has to be recorded. So now we have two accounts impacted, which we haven't seen too often. So it's 1-0-5-8-7-3, I think if I remember that. And then the other side is gonna go to interest. So the other side is gonna be interest. And notice I'm gonna look for the account that they have. Do they have an interest account? They have interest paid. I don't really like that term because it kind of indicates that you paid the interest, meaning you're like on a cash-based system. It's possible to have interest that hasn't been incurred that you have not yet paid. So I'd rather just have it called interest expense. But I'm not gonna make another account called interest expense. Instead, I'll possibly change this account. If I made another account, that could cause problems because then I have two accounts that have a similar name. So I'm gonna say I'm gonna use that account and then possibly change the name of it because I don't like that name as much. And then I'm gonna say the other, the interest is $300, so 300 to interest. And that gives me a total of the 1-3-5-8-7-3. So 1-3-5-8-7-3. So what's this transaction going to do? It's a check, it's gonna decrease the checking account by the full amount, 1-3-5-8-7-3. But the other side goes to two accounts, one of them being interest, $300, because that's similar to paying the rent on an office building. We're paying the rent on the use of the loan balance and the rest of it isn't going to rent on the use of the loan balance, but actually giving back part of the office building in that analogy, right? We're giving a room back. We're giving part of the loan back, the reduction of the principal that has not yet, you know, okay, so that's the idea. Let's do it, let's save it and close it and then check it out. And so I'm gonna go to the balance sheet now and we'll scroll up and run it. And then of course if I go into the checking account, by the way, I wanted to get into the practice of me breaking this account out by, I'm in month two, so let's change the range. I'm still on the old range, 0-28-24, sorry about that. Let's go month by month and break it out month by month.  You were in February now. You're living in the past, man. You're living in the past. So if I go in here in February, then there's our check. So that's the full amount of the check, all right?  And then let's go to the profit and loss and change the range again. Go to 0-28-24, I stay in the present. I'm mindful of the present time that's practicing my mindfulness to be in the, I don't know what I'm talking about. So interest paid. There's the interest. So the interest in February now, so we have a loss of course on the income statement. So that's the idea, pretty simple transaction, but it's difficult to save that transaction given the fact that the next balance that we have, let's make it green, will not be exactly the same even though the dollar amount is the same. So the dollar amount is the same, that the accounts impacted will be the same, but the interest and the loan reduction will differ making it difficult to memorize the transaction. So let's record this one. Now I'm gonna record this at the end of the same month so that we have them both in the same month. Normally they would be in different months, but we're gonna imagine it's a month apart but they happen to both payments happen to be made in February just so we can see them in the same month side by side. So let's do that.  So we're jumping forward in time, but we're doing so so we can make a direct comparison of these two items. If I select the category drop down, well actually wait a sec, I don't wanna make an expense form, I wanna make another check form. I'm gonna close that back out. Do you wanna leave it out saving? Yes, we'll make it a check form because I was using checked same form, but I wanna use the check numbers. You're confusing people, I know. I know, I'm sorry. Editor, cut that one out, just kidding. 022824, we'll survive. So we're going 1017 and notice it memorized the last transaction. Great, the account's perfect, but the amounts are different, that's the problem. So now I have to go in here and if it was a bank feed that I waited till it cleared the bank, I have the similar issue. I can't just memorize the transaction because these two amounts will keep on being different. And so I won't be able to just automatically put the bank feeds on and automatically just do this. I always have to go back to the amortization table and then say, well, the interest is, well, let's do the principle 106-314. So this now has to be 106-3.14 and then the interest is now 29559. So 29559, and that still comes out to 135873, same amount that we're paying, but that breakout differs, messing up the whole thing. So you could try to memorize transactions or prerecord the transactions and record them at a future time according to the amortization table or something like that. But like I said, it's not as easy to just automate the transactions that would come through the bank feed as you would with like a telephone bill where you're just saying, if I paid Verizon, just put it to the telephone expense. So what's this gonna do? It's gonna do the same thing. It's a check. It's gonna decrease the checking account by the same amount, 135873 at the end of the month. But the loan balance is now gonna go down by 106-314 and the interest, instead of $300, the rent that we're paying on the bank feed,


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And in Delta State, the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ovea Omoa Gege, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, with a total number of 1,190 votes and one invalid vote. Out of a total of 1,350 delegates and listed to participate in the party's governorship primary, only 1,235 delegates were dilly accredited from the three senatorial districts of the state and voted at the election. Chairman of the APC governorship primary, Oyu Buonwani readdressed newsmen at the Federal College of Education Technical on Ibosa Road, Asaba, the state's capital venue of the election. This election is Senator Ovea Omoa Gege votes. And in his part, Ovea Omoa Gege promised to create more jobs in the states. The creation and expansion of employment and empowerment for our people, we're going to focus on development of the special infrastructure, development for our people, we're going to focus on providing good governance for our people, and we're going to provide enduring peace and security. That is what the people of Delta State crave, and that is what an APC-led government will provide the people of Delta State. As we move forward, there's not going to be a Tea Party by any means. We're going to require all hands to be on deck. The people of Delta State, they have tried the PDP government led by Okowa. There's nothing new to say. They know that the government has failed, and they are going to pick somebody to perpetuate the same failure.


We are now dwelling upon the role of the directors and therefore, it is very important to understand the Hempel theory because that has basically elaborated and enumerated on the role of the directors, on the responsibility of the directors and how the directors should basically function and that is why this is considered as a very important theory in corporate governance. Now, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk about the appointment and composition of the board of directors, the committee recommended the following. So, this was basically recommended in the Hempel theory that executive and non-executive directors should continue to have the same duties under the law. Board should appoint only those executives as the executive directors who can take a broad view of the company's overall interest. So, what we see is that in the case of both executive directors and non-executive directors, it is very important that whenever they are appointed, they basically should believe in the philosophy, in the existence, in the objectives, in the vision, in the mission of the organization. That is extremely important. They should be synchronized and harmonized with the company. If they are not, then they would not be able to provide that relevant and that pertinent input which is required at their very senior position. So, for both the executive and non-executive directors, it is very important to assess that how they would be contributing towards the growth and well-being of the organization, which is extremely important and that can only be achieved when there is a synchronization and harmonization of the vision, mission, goals, objectives, philosophy and the existence of the company or otherwise, there would be a conflict which would be detrimental both for the directors and also for the organization. Now, according to the Hempel theory, most of the non-executive directors should be independent and boards should disclose in the annual report which of the non-executive directors are independent. Separation of the roles of the chairman and chief executive officer is also to be preferred. So, like I have been mentioning in so many of my sessions, that the separation of chairman and chief executive officer is critical to the success of an organization and also tends to minimize exploitation and manipulation and the collection of authority and power in one particular individual which would enable that individual to whimsically do whatever he or she wants. And secondly, what we see is that there should be proper disclosure of how non-executive directors and directors are basically selected and then how is it that the non-executive directors are independent, that is a very, very important and critical question. Now, the Hempel theory then further goes ahead that regarding the appointment and composition of the board of directors, the committee recommended the following. Companies should set up a nomination committee which we have talked about earlier to make recommendations to the board on all new board appointments. All the directors should submit themselves for reelection at least every three years. So, these two criteria became very important. One, that the nomination committee should recommend the new board appointments and secondly, they should be re-elected every three years which would ensure that they would be a proper process which would be evaluating and monitoring the performance of non-executive directors and the board of directors and see how they are performing. And through that reelection, it would enable the board of directors to ensure that the different committees were performing in the right way. The names of directors submitted for reelection should be accompanied by biographical details. So, therefore, these details should be available. There should be no fixed rules for the length of service or the age of non-executive directors. So, age should not be a barring criteria and then again, there can be no fixation of tenure. So, they could serve for a long tenure but based upon reelection, they would be an organic evaluation of the performance of the board and then thirdly, ensuring that there is proper disclosure whereby selecting them would become an easier process. The board should set as their objective the reduction of directors' contract periods to one year or less but recognize that this cannot be achieved immediately. So, again, yes, one year would be great but achieving it is very difficult and complex and the board should establish a remuneration committee made up of independent non-executive directors to develop policy and remuneration and devise remuneration packages for individual executive directors. So, the remuneration committee is very important especially since the past 10-12 years because earlier on the chief executive officer and the executive directors would themselves get phenomenal salaries and the rest of the employees would basically be getting very nominal salaries and there would be such a big disparity that this led to a lot of disgruntlement that why are certain people paid obnoxiously phenomenally high salaries while the others were hardly being given subsistence or market-based salaries. The decisions on the remuneration packages of the executive directors should be delegated to the remuneration committee. So, again, it should be a proper process, there should be a proper evaluation and then based upon that evaluation, then they can proceed ahead and move forward. The disclosure of individual remuneration packages should be retained but the committee considers that this has become too complicated. So, again what we see is that this is now a scientific process, it has to basically deal with different comparative studies and then a more market-based approach can emerge whereby there would be rationalization of remuneration and rationalization of salaries which is extremely important. The committee also recommended the requirement to disclose details of individual remuneration which should continue to apply to overseas-based directors of UK companies. The shareholder approval could be sought for the new long-term incentive plans. So, again, all of this is very important. So, we are not only talking about remuneration, we are not only talking about salary but we are also talking about long-term incentive plans and also about benefits. So, how the whole package basically is developed that was focused by the Hempel theory. So, again, ladies and gentlemen, what we see is that the Hempel theory talked about the very fundamentals of remuneration, talked about the fundamentals of appointment and also talked about the fundamentals of how a proper relationship should be developed between the executive and non-executive and then how they should be appointed and when they should be elected and then how is it that they could play a better role in the whole organization. So, that is how the Hempel theory basically further improved corporate governance through their set of recommendations. Thank you so much.


We continue today with Lesson 278. If I am bound, my Father is not free. If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father a prisoner with me. And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys, must I obey the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real and cannot be escaped. If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor myself, and I am lost to all reality. For truth is free, and what is bound is not part of truth. Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to you instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only love is sure. Amen.


Hello and welcome everyone. My name is Ryan Minook. I'm a Solutions Consultant here at FileMaker and I'm really excited to be your host for today's webinar where we'll continue our examination of the FileMaker platform and QuickBooks integration and specifically for today, QuickBooks Online. And if you haven't already be sure to check out part one of our QuickBooks webinar series located on FileMaker.com forward slash learning forward slash webinars. But today we're joined by Todd Geist, founder of Geist Interactive, who will guide us through the benefits of FileMaker and QuickBooks Online integration. But before we get started, I have some brief housekeeping notes. So for the best experience, we strongly recommend that you participate in this webinar with at least a broadband connection. So if you have any problems, require online assistance at any time, please contact Citrix Technical Support at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now during today's presentation, you're gonna have the opportunity to type in and ask questions. So let's talk briefly about how to do that. Just go to the control panel, click on the question section, enter a question and click on send. So we'll try to cover as many questions as time allows at the end of our presentation. But remember, you don't have to wait until then to submit a question. And with that, I'd like to introduce you to Todd Geist. Well, hello everybody. My name is Todd Geist and I am the founder of Geist Interactive. I just want to go through a couple of little intro slides to just cover who I am and what Geist Interactive does and then we'll dive into the topic of the day. So I've been doing FileMaker since about 1992. And I've been presenting at FileMaker DevCon since around 2001. I'm not sure exactly, but it's 2001 or 2002. And I'm also a member of the FBA Partner Council, which is a new advisory board that FileMaker started up this year, that has two main jobs. The first one is to advise FileMaker on future direction of the platform. And the second is to provide a communication channel between the management of FileMaker and the worldwide developer community.  We're headquartered in Southern California. We have offices outside of LA and down in San Diego. We build custom FileMaker software. So what that means is we do custom software for businesses and organizations and we use FileMaker almost exclusively. We do use a couple of other technologies, but it's almost always with FileMaker at the core of everything that we do. We also produce a number of developer tools, one of which we'll be talking about a little bit later in this webinar, FMQBO. But we've got a bunch of others and there's a couple of them down there, barcode creator, which is a tool to create barcodes. FM perception, which is a great analysis tool. And then we do a lot of work with custom web publishing with FileMaker in the back end using Node and React.js. All right, so we're pretty well known for a couple of popular community contributions. The first one is just all the way back about 10 years and talking about database transactions. And we won't get into all the details here, but database transactions are a way of ensuring that the complex scripting logic that you do and your FileMaker systems can survive all kinds of weird errors and disasters or things like your network connection dropping. And I've been speaking about that for a number of years. It's a pretty popular topic. A couple of years back, we launched ModularFileMaker.org, which is a website for encouraging people to write FileMaker code in a modular way in a way that makes it a little more portable than sort of the older patterns of doing it. So at that site, you'll find some guidelines for how to do that. And you'll also find a couple dozen modules, free modules that you can download and use in your system to extend FileMaker's functionality. And then most recently, we got an award a couple of years ago for evangelizing a new relationship graph pattern called a selector connector. That has become very popular in the last couple of years. And that was a result of a collaboration between us and the good folks at seedcode.com. All right, so we're here to talk about FileMaker and QuickBooks. So I'm going to assume out there in the audience that there are a number of you who may be new to FileMaker who don't have FileMaker. And so I'm going to tell you a little bit about why we use FileMaker, what makes it special to us and why it's such a great tool. And then I also imagine that there's a number of you that maybe don't have QuickBooks or QuickBooks online, so I'm going to tell you a little bit about that. And then I'm going to tell you how we can make those two work together and some of the benefits that you can realize when you do that. So first of all, I'm going to back up just a bit and talk about what is our core mission statement. And this is it summarized in five little words. Custom software is a right. And that may seem like a funny way of saying it, but we see a lot with a lot of our clients that they get held hostage by manual processes that work just well enough to allow them to get their jobs done, but not well enough for them to achieve any economies of scale or to expand or to grow. And the same sort of thing can happen with off-the-shelf software products that you might be using to run your business or in the current era of the internet, we have these software service products that, again, weren't designed for you, but allow you to get your job done well enough that you can keep going, but they don't actually let you customize or do anything to make that piece of software specific to your use case. And if they're working just well enough, it's almost like you're held hostage, like you can't quite break free. And so we really want to make the point that you have the right to do that, and it is possible to do that. Another reason that you want to consider custom software is it's a competitive advantage. If you and all of your competitors are using the same shovel, the same tools, you are all going to dig approximately the same size ditches, and there's not going to be a lot of difference between what you do, at least in terms of how your systems work. Whereas if you have a system that is designed specifically for you, you can dig much bigger ditches or bigger ditches faster, and so you get a competitive advantage. So all of that adds up to the following statement. We really believe that your system can meet your specific requirements, can give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and this is another one that I like to talk about a lot. Enshrine your best practices and business rules into the system so that your employees are helped along doing, making the right decisions whenever they are executing the tasks that make up whatever it is that you do as a business or as an organization. Remove a lot of the ambiguity about how they're supposed to do things, and just make it part of how the custom software system works. All right, so we talked about custom software and why we think it's really important, and to do that you really need to have a good platform. You don't want to reinvent the wheel, you don't want to do things that everybody else has done when it comes to a certain level of the application, and I think FileMaker provides that level really, really well. So if you take a look at the FileMaker platform, we really believe that it's a perfect platform for data-driven custom applications. So we're not building video games here, we're not building maybe like simple websites. We are building applications that manage data and maybe a lot of data, and to do that you need a program or a platform that understands that and has a lot of that built into its DNA, and FileMaker does that. It's also this really interesting combination, and I think a nice way to say it is that it exists somewhere between programming and a program. So as a program out of the box, it handles a lot of the things that a database application would need to handle, and you don't have to do much to get started, but it is also programmable. So you can program it and customize it and add features on top of it. What that means is you get something that's easy to start. So you can get started with FileMaker really, really easy, really, really fast. You can be producing simple applications really within just an hour or two. You can start to get the feel for how things can work. But although it's very simple, it also grows with you. So we work on systems that may have hundreds of tables of data, and maybe even some that have millions of records. Very, very complex scripting and logic that's handling all that stuff, and maybe with up to 100 users or more simultaneously logged into that system. And FileMaker can handle that. So it can start simple, and it can grow all the way up with you. Finally, and maybe most importantly for this webinar in particular, is that it plays really well with others. 25 years ago when I started with FileMaker, there wasn't a big huge internet full of services and other types of data sources that you might want to integrate with. But today there is, and it's really important that your platform be able to integrate and talk to and exchange data with all those other systems. And FileMaker can do that, as we'll see a little bit later. All right, so custom software, maybe a simple way to think about what you can do with FileMaker is starting with the very easy things. The manual workflows that you have, where perhaps you are taking data from one system and hand keying it into another system or you're processing paper forms. You can rebuild those in FileMaker, and the result will be that they'll be faster, they'll be less errors, because you are enshrining those business rules and best practices into that automation so that they don't get munged over time. So we talked now about custom software being awesome and being a right, and we talked about FileMaker being the perfect platform to build custom software with. But I do think we do need to answer this question, do we customize everything? Do we have to make a custom system for everything that we do in our business? And the answer is no. An example we'll be looking at a lot today is accounting, and so here's a very detailed example, a profit and loss statement, a custom profit and loss statement is probably not very helpful, does not have a big return on investment for your business, because it's pretty standard across the entire really country for that matter. So it doesn't make much sense to customize things that don't add up to a way in which you can differentiate yourself to your customers. So we tell our clients, customize what matters and integrate with the rest. So we're going to be looking at accounting as the example for that, and just to kind of finish the thought on that, it again is standard across most industries, and it's also really difficult to do. It's very, it's hard to do accounting well. It's a lot of complex logic, a lot of checks and balances have to be put in place. That's very difficult, and if it doesn't work, you could have extreme consequences. You have, it could impact tax filings, which if they're done incorrectly could lead to penalties and fines. So it's one of those things that's just best left to applications that do it really, really well. So we talked about custom software, we talked about FileMaker, and now we're going to talk about why we chose into its QuickBooks Online platform as the accounting platform that we use for all of our work. First thing to say is it's the leading on online accounting system around. They have millions of users and it's an undergoing explosive growth. So we now have, we now have one and a half million subscribers, and they're adding... I'm hearing some talk. Are we good? I'm going to assume that we're still good. All right, so we're adding 100,000 new accounts per quarter, so it's really experiencing explosive growth, and it's completely cross-platform, which is really the main reason that we looked at it in the beginning. We do Mac and Windows work here, but we do most of our work on the Mac, so we really wanted a solution that ran on the Mac, and QuickBooks Online does that. It's a completely cross-platform. In fact, they have Mac and Windows browsers supported, and native mobile apps as well, both Android and iOS. And sort of strangely, they have a Mac desktop app as well, but it's not the QuickBooks for Mac app that we've been around for a long, long time. It's the QuickBooks Online desktop app, which is a little confusing, but it's really the same thing. QuickBooks Online just wrapped up in a native app that runs in its own browser. So it also has some nice features, which we really like that I think are a little bit different and a little bit of an advantage over the desktop system. One is super easy account access, so accountants can quickly and easily get into their client's systems. They have their own version of the software, and when they log in, they see links to all of their customer's accounts, and they can click on it and go right into the system and make any changes or review any reports or financial data that they need to. So it's super easy for your accountants to get access to the solution. You don't have to trade around files like you have to do in the old days with QuickBooks desktop. Also some really nice credit card processing features, which we're not going to have time to get into, but I do want to make that point here. All right, so we talked about FileMaker being an awesome platform for building custom software and custom software being an awesome thing to do, and integrating it with QuickBooks. Now I want to talk a little bit about the benefits, for doing all of that. We're going to look at a case study. What we're going to talk about here is a company named Fibank. Fibank, they make custom trade show booths. So they print graphics, high resolution graphics on huge pieces of fabric, and they bend aluminum frames, and they stretch the fabric over frames, and then they ship that stuff out all over the country often overnight, because the way that the industry works is that people are usually finishing up their booth designs and getting everything done the week before the trade show. So sometimes it's being shipped straight to the trade show. So it's a very fast-paced environment where orders are coming in, and things are being shipped, and turned around really, really fastly, really, really fast. And so they built a FileMaker system that does all of their customer relationship management, including quoting and order processing. It also does manufacturing, inventory, and shipping. So this was all a custom FileMaker solution, and it manages every aspect of that process, even integrating with manufacturing hardware. So they have these really cool laser projectors that project the cut designs onto these huge cutting tables so that they can cut the fabric to exactly the size and shape they need to stretch over those aluminum frames. And FileMaker integrates with those laser projectors so that the people who are on the shop floor, when they are working on a big cutting job, they have an iPad app. On that iPad app, they pull up the job, they click a button that says project the design and boom, there's the design for that job is projected onto the table. It's really cool. So that's all done in FileMaker. The problem was that the problem was that they were having to spend a lot of time re-entering customers and invoices and items that were being generated in FileMaker all had to be re-entered in the QuickBooks along with a time-consuming inventory process that was so time-consuming they couldn't do it more than once a month. And so this was all manual processes. So they hired us to come in and integrate QuickBooks online with their CRM and manufacturing system so now that data flows straight from their custom system up into QuickBooks online where the accounting department can send out invoices and track accounts receivable and all that information about AR in particular an inventory flows back into the FileMaker system so that the people that are using the FileMaker system get the benefits of having access to all that accounting data without having to log into QuickBooks online. So John Nichols is the owner of FiveInk and I think John is a really interesting guy. He's been a client of mine for a long, long time and he told me something many years ago that I think is quite profound. He says, I manage my business by managing my system. And so what he means by that is he takes all of his best practices and business rules and encodes that into the system so that his people can just do their work by just doing what the system tells them to do. And I think the results are obvious. The business is very successful. It's growing and now they're able to do things much, much faster than they used to do. Inventory, which was done once a month, is now done every week, for example, which is a really big help for them in terms of keeping their inventory in line with their needs. Okay, so that was a look at the feature, some of the benefits you can get when you integrate FileMaker and QuickBooks online. So the question now is sort of how do you do that? What's the technique for doing that? And what we're going to talk about now is a product that we have called FMQBO, which is sort of obvious in its acronym. It's FileMaker, QuickBooks Online. And it really is all about keeping FileMaker and QuickBooks online in sync and getting rid of any kind of manual processes you have to do to keep those two things together. So what is it? Let's just talk briefly about what the components of FMQBO are. And there's really just two. There's a service that connects FileMaker scripts to QuickBooks online. So that means that you use FileMaker scripts to talk to QuickBooks online and exchange data in two directions, all just using FileMaker scripting. So that's the first component. The second component is a simple starter solution that we're going to look at in a minute. And that is a perfect thing if you don't have a FileMaker system yet and you just want to get started right away, you can use that. And it doesn't do everything. QuickBooks does a few things, the most common things. And it can serve as a really good template for customizing and building out your own system on top of it. It does support the entire FileMaker platform, Macs, PCs, iOS, native mobile browsers, server-side scripting. Pretty much anywhere that FileMaker runs, FMQBO will work. So let's take a look at the simple starter solution. It does customers, invoices and items, which is based on our experience with the first version of this product, is about 70% of what most people do, or at least what most people start with. They're selling things, so they have invoices and customers, and they want to have some control over how those invoices are handled. And so they want a FileMaker system that they can do that with. So that's what our simple starter does. You can connect and exchange data in minutes with QuickBooks online. It's really, really simple. And then from there, you can customize it to your own requirements and do whatever you like on top of it. All right, so let's take a look at the demo. I'm going to drop out of the slides. So here is that simple solution. It has nothing in it. We're starting with an empty file. There are no invoices. There's no customers. There's no items. It's just a simple empty file. So it's a three-step process to get connected. You will need to have a QuickBooks online account. You'll need to have a full access password to a QuickBooks online account. It can be a trial version, or it can still be in trial mode, but it needs to be a full version of QuickBooks online. So once you have that, you can simply click on that Big Connect button there. And what we're going to do here is first log into our QuickBooks online account. So we're going to do that. I'm going to use this demo file that we used just so we don't wreck anybody's real accounting data during these demos. And we're logging in, and now we're checking for connections to QuickBooks online because maybe we've already authorized some. We haven't. So what this is saying here, we're now at Intuit site, and we're basically asking Intuit to grant us the access to your QuickBooks online account. We're saying, authorize this account to be able to use, or authorize FMQBO to be able to use this Geist Interactive demo account we have set up here. So I click that button. We authorize that. And at the end of this process, we're going to end up with an API key. And really, that's just a connection string that basically uniquely identifies this connection to your file maker file. We're going to use that in just a second. The thing to know is that we never have any of your passwords into its stuff. We don't keep QuickBooks online accounts. We have some tokens, and those tokens can be rejected by you at any time. And you can change your API key at any time as well. So once we have that, we copy it to the clipboard. We're pretty much done with the browser right now. We come back here and we paste that in, and now we are ready to sync. So we're syncing. Depending on the amount of data that's in your system, this could take a few seconds to a few minutes, and for very, very large accounts, maybe many minutes to pull down all of the data the first time. Once the data is pulled down the first time, the syncs that occur after that are only looking at the changes. So the initial sync can take a little bit of time. So that's it. We're done syncing. We now have a bunch of invoices here. We have a bunch of customers. We have a bunch of items. All that was synced down into QuickBooks. And we're able to do that really, really fast. So let's actually, let's see. We're going to take a look at, we'll look at this customer here. Actually, let's go look at customers. We'll pick James here. I'm going to launch the QuickBooks online site so that we can start playing with that a little bit. And so let's go and find, let's go to customers and find that same account so we can start to see some things happening between the two. So there we go. Okay, so there's no invoices in QuickBooks online yet for this customer. So let's go and create an invoice. And we'll just add a couple of products. We'll add a couple of t-shirts. We'll add a logo cap or two, maybe 12. All right, so there is our invoice. And we're going to sync that to QuickBooks online. Now every time you sync is looking for changes on both sides. And it's taking care of bringing those two different sides together and it's sent up our invoice up to QuickBooks online. So let's refresh that page there and we should see an invoice for that customer. There we do. Let's open that up, make sure it's the same invoice. And you can see that it is. So that's kind of cool. So let's receive a payment on this invoice. So now the accounting department is able to actually receive payments. We don't have to handle payments in FileMaker. We can let the accounting department handle that in QuickBooks online, which is really nice. And let's just do a partial payment. Let's say we only get $150. So let's save that. That is going to leave $115 as a balance due on this invoice. So let's sync that and just make sure that that comes back down the way that we wanted it to. And so there we have it. You see $115 is down. It's our balance due. And so as the accounting department updates the invoices with payments, that data can flow back into FileMaker and can be available to do things with. So I do want to show this running on an iPad just to show that that works.  There we go. And let's go pick invoices and let's go down to that last invoice way down the bottom here. Click on that. So there's that invoice. So let's add a message. Let's see. How about please pay the balance. So we've got that in there. Now we can sync actually right here on the iPad, right here from the iPad. It's going to sync that. And of course it already showed up in the FileMaker version. But once the sync is done, it's going to show up in our QuickBooks online version as well. So we will refresh that page. And there's that invoice. And there is please pay the balance is now up there. So we have we've demonstrated a full sync between FileMaker and QuickBooks running on the desktop and running on the iPad, which opens up a lot of really interesting possibilities. But just to make the case of why this gets really neat is that once you have your accounting data in FileMaker, you can do all kinds of things that you can't do easily in QuickBooks or at all. I'm going to show a really simple charting example here where we are just this is a native FileMaker chart really, really simple to make that shows the sales per month. And this so this data is synced from QuickBooks online comes down into FileMaker and now I can use all of the great custom reporting features that FileMaker has built into it to do really whatever I want. So we get to manage our workflow. We can put rules on when invoices can get sent, etc. How inventory gets processed. And we can customize the interface and design custom reports based on data that's in FileMaker and data that might originate in QuickBooks online. So that is it for the demo. Let's drop back into the slides here and let's just talk wrap up a little bit about F and QBO. So just a couple of things to know about it. It's simple but it's also extremely powerful. We looked at the really simple starter solution and you can use that to get going right away but it does use the entire QuickBooks online API, which means that anything that into it makes available to do, you can do with F and QBO. You can do all the accounting stuff and you can even do payments. I mentioned credit card processing earlier. I'm not going to be able to show you that today but you can do that as well. The other nice thing about it is that when QuickBooks releases new features which they do or they add new functionality to the API, you automatically get the ability to interact with that API. Like for example about four months ago, QuickBooks API was updated to include deposits. Prior to that, you couldn't send deposits up through the API but now you can. So when that kind of thing happens, when they add new features and functionality, you won't need to wait. You'll be able just to use that functionality with F and QBO. Let's talk about the scenarios that you might want to use this in. So we talked about using simple starter solution. If you do not have a FileMaker file already, this is a great little simple thing to start with and you can get that, comes along with the service at no extra charge. If you have an existing solution, you can use the starter solution scripts and we have some documentation about how to basically repoint the logic of that sync engine that's built into the simple starter solution at your own solution. So you can basically just make some changes to the scripts and it will work with your file instead or your database tables instead of its own internal tables. And then finally again, the advanced options are if you want to do things that are well pretty much anything. Again, we expose the entire QuickBooks API so if there's anything that you want to do that's possible with the API, you can do using F and QBO. So a big announcement. So for those of you out there who may have done F and QBO version 1, this is version 2 which you just saw and it ships today in fact. We time this to go with this webinar so you guys are the first ones seeing this announcement. We won't announce it publicly for another couple of days but you guys get to see it before anybody else. Talk about pricing. We have a free 14-day trial. It is unlimited in terms of it's the same functionality as the full version. It just stops working after 14 days. The pricing is either $500 a year per QuickBooks account or $60 a month your choice. You save $220 a year if you choose the $500 option. So this is unlimited users. So unlimited file maker machines connecting to a single QuickBooks online account. We no longer track users like we used to in the original version. That just was obviously silly. We decided and so we got rid of that in the new version. So that's it for F and QBO. It's the simplest the most powerful way to sync file maker to QuickBooks online. That's the link to get to it. You can also find it just on our webpage under the product section. It's pretty easy to find and so that's that. So let's just wrap up a little bit about file maker in QuickBooks. So again, custom software is a right. Build your system and use file maker to do it. It's a great platform for building custom software. If you integrate with QuickBooks online, you get all the great benefits of QuickBooks online, which we didn't. There's a ton of other ones. It does a great job of ingesting bank feeds so that reconciliation is super simple. It has the ability to send invoices and get payments. It's got a ton of really great features. And then keep them in sync with F and QBO. And when you do that, you get some benefits. You get to automate error pro and manual processes.  You can share accounting data with a wider audience so your people using file maker can get access to the accounting data like Account Receivable without having to log into QuickBooks. And most importantly, you get to have it your way. It's your system. It's your workflow. It should be your software. So that is pretty much it. Here's some contact information. Again, that's how to get a hold of me or anybody at Geist Interactive. We can of course help you with any additional needs you might have around QuickBooks online, doing advanced features, adding other entities like purchase orders or vendors or what have you. We can help you with all that kind of stuff. And so please feel free to reach out and ask us any questions at all. And I think that's the last slide. I think we're into Q&A. So I'll just leave this last slide up while we go into Q&A. Does that sound good, guys? All right, sounds great. Thanks, Todd. Fantastic demo. A lot of great information there. Again, if you haven't already asked a question, go to the webinar control panel, click on the questions section, enter question and click on send. All right, let's go ahead and jump in. We actually had quite a few people asking whether they're going to get a recording of this webinar. You will. We'll send you a link once the webinar concludes. All right, the first question, Todd. Are you creating your invoice items in QuickBooks or in FileMaker? And is there a best practice you would recommend or where should we start from? So I think they are the inventory items. Some customers only create items in QuickBooks. If that is a process that is not, doesn't change often or needs to be set up by somebody maybe in accounting, then I'd recommend that the invoice, the items get created in QuickBooks online and then they can just be synced into FileMaker so that you can use them when you create your invoice items. But you can just simply not allow new records to be created in the FileMaker version of that items table so that you can control that. And that brings up a good point. It's a good idea to choose sort of which of the sources of data is the source of truth. So which one should always win? Items is one that can go both ways. Customers usually get done in FileMaker and invoices usually get done in FileMaker, but you may have some process where a customer has to get entered into QuickBooks first for some reason and that's totally fine as well. But the important thing is for you as an organization or as a company to decide which side should always be the ultimate source of truth. Perfect. The next question, can you create multiple invoices then sync or do you need to sync after each creation? Yeah, so I was just syncing just so we could see the refresh. The way it works actually is every time you sync it's going to find all of the changes and all of the tables that you have set up to sync and send them up. So you could do it in batches. You could run this process automatically every 15 minutes. You could run it once a day. It doesn't really, it's really up to you what's best for your organization. If you want sort of real-time AR, close to real-time AR and inventory, you might need to be doing syncing on a regular basis. The good news is we built into that sync engine the ability to basically it only allows one sync to be happening at a time. So if somebody else tries to sync one one is when another one is already running it'll just stop and won't let you go. So syncing is something that you can do as often as you like to do and it will gather up all the changes on both sides and sync them. Excellent. All right the next question, a quick question about the starter solutions. Is the start solution fully customizable? Can the customers put in their own logos on the layouts for example? That file is completely unlocked. It doesn't even have admin, it doesn't even have an admin access password. So it's totally open for you to do whatever you like with it. And that means that you can go to town. When you do that, you know when we ship new versions, we will have a way to upgrade that stuff. So you can really feel like you should be able to go to town and just do whatever you like to it. That's the point really is that this is your system. So do whatever you want to do to it. All right the next question, are there any filemaker inventory apps that you recommend that will interface with the sales and accounts payable data of QuickBooks or do you have to build the inventory solution yourself? So we have some stuff in-house that we are building out. The problem with inventory is that it depends a lot on what kind of business it is. If it is simply buying and selling, that's one thing. But if it's buying and selling with multiple warehouses, that's another thing. If it's buying and selling through multiple channels, which a lot of companies do through like Amazon and eBay and stuff, that's yet another thing. If it's a manufacturing process, that's yet another thing. So inventory is a pretty custom thing, but we definitely have some stuff that we can share with anybody who's interested in doing inventory. And the good news is that all the tools you need, everything you need to do is available through the QuickBooks API so that you can build a custom solution and filemaker that keeps your inventory up to date. All right the next question, what are the differences between the desktop and QuickBooks online? Yeah, so there are a few and frankly the online version is probably still has less features than the desktop version. That is changing all the time, they're adding more and more stuff. If you go to, if you do a search for compare QuickBooks online to desktop, you're going to land on this page, which Intuit has titled move to QuickBooks online. So they pretty clearly want you to move in that direction.  And by the way you can move from the desktop version to the QuickBooks online version. If you have questions about that just send us a line. You have to be careful with a couple things when you do that data migration but that's totally doable. All right so yeah. Okay the next question, can you set invoices to be paid and have filemaker QuickBooks update as soon as the invoice is paid? So the answer is technically yes. It's sort of a lot, it's a lot more work to do that but and we don't have anything out of the box but if it's a if it's a desperately needed feature then we can have QuickBooks online signal your filemaker server and say hey do a sync whenever something like an invoice is updated. I think that frankly if you are running the sync process on a fairly regular basis every 10 to 15 minutes or as needed, I'm not sure that's a big need but if it is, if you really do need something that's close to real time, again contact us and we can figure that out. All right perfect. A few questions about your product side. One version to filemaker will work with QuickBooks. So we are officially supporting 13 through 15 right now although we haven't explicitly done anything well as see. So the starter solution is 13 through 15. The service that does the connection will work all the way back to filemaker 12. So we're only officially supporting 13 through 15 right now. Okay next question. Will your product also work with WebDirect? Yes it will. Yes it will. You can even sync from the WebDirect side. Okay and you demoed with the StarSolution and potentially working and also talking about potentially working with an existing solution. Can you just comment on how seamless integration would be with a custom built solution? So the way it works we have this document and we'll have some videos on this going up in the next couple days but how it works basically is we have separated out the scripts that do the connection to your system in a very sort of ordered and nice way. What it basically amounts to is changing set field steps to basically all you do is make a field map essentially between the QuickBooks online stuff and your filemaker table. So you have to say well this is where my customer name is this is where the customer street address is and that's just set fields in scripts that are already written for you. So you just have to go in and change those to point at your system. All of the logic around doing it like checking for changes on the QuickBooks side and on the filemaker side and managing the syncs and only one person can do it and only one sync process can run at a time. All that is separate and in another part of the scripting and you don't have to mess with that at all. You really only have to mess with the parts that are specific to connecting up basically making a map between the QuickBooks fields and the filemaker fields. All right back to usage. Can you sync time information between filemaker and QuickBooks? Yeah so time activities is a very common one. We'll probably be doing a sample file on that just because it's something that a lot of people ask for is just basically have time sheets that are better than what you get in QuickBooks. In QuickBooks you can enter time but then every employee has to have access to QuickBooks and you can manage that okay but there's nothing around like managing the time. There's no way to say okay somebody's time for this week is in and they're submitting it and they're approving and none of that process is this in filemaker. I'm sorry in QuickBooks. So you can totally do that in filemaker and you can totally have your own time sheet system that is pushing time into into QuickBooks online. All right last question for today. What parts of QuickBooks online are not accessible via filemaker?  There are some edge cases that have like specific fields on specific entities that are read-only or can't be changed through the API but I'm not aware of any major like anything that you know deposits, expenses, purchase orders, vendors, accounts, journal entries, invoicing, payments, deposits, customers all those are available. So if there's anything there it's likely it's likely being worked on and it'll be released in the future. The only thing I see I wish they would improve right away is doing inventory adjustments. There's a manual process not a manual process there's a workaround that we have right now. I would like to see them have inventory adjustments as they exist in the in the API in the QuickBooks online version exist through the API. We can still do inventory adjustments through the API but it's just not as nice as the way as if it was able to use their same their same their same UI. All right well thank you everyone on behalf of Titan on behalf of FileMaker it was our absolute pleasure chatting with you guys we definitely hope to see you on another webinar soon. Have a great day. Thank you!


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of Wilmington, Delaware. Makers of better things for better living through chemistry presents the Cavalcade of America. Tonight's play, The Secret Road, the story of the culpers of Long Island, the six spies who changed the course of American history. Our star, Lee Bowman. 1780, late in the War of the Revolution. New York City's in the hands of the British, but the French fleet, bearing a well-equipped army, has sailed for Newport and Rhode Island. With the French fleet rides General Washington's last meager hope of victory, harvest-reaching into York Harbour. It is in nights, and on the third evening reached a hurricane peak of howling wind. We, who were trapped in the British prison ships out beyond Governor's Island, rolled and wallowed in the filth around us. While the gale drove in from the southwest, yanked and tugged at the holiday along prison road with a mad giant's muscle. Third day, I was sent stumbling up to the deck with a pail of slops to ent the oversight. I did what I had to do, and it swelled to the lured. And then I saw the loggers that made us fast to the next ship in line. I thought, quay and tremble, and then the quake broke. Well, the sound believed me just as the books describe it, like a rifle shot. What we saw, one of the men in here. I see his pleasure in his majesty's stinking prison hawks out yonder in the bay. Oh, that's holy, man, man! Tim Free, Talmud can use him. The great storm, but who are you? Well, to our mutual friend, I'm known as. Below our general, Sir Henry Clinton, I am known as Robert Townsend. The youthful bootlicker in gossip, a merchant of sorts, and an officer in the home guard. He doesn't know it yet, but he's made to Talmud his new courier. Captain, this is Austin Rowe, who also rides for us. Howdy, courier. Oh, you've been clamming, son? No, I've been for a swim. You couldn't have picked a better day for it, mighty nice weather out in the bay. It saved my sitting for later. Now, look here, Tony. I've been riding since dawn yesterday with mustern sheets in almost shocking condition. Every army supply contract the Britishers gives out. And every cent of it, he uses to buy food for yarn poor devils in the prison ships. Unbeknownst to the red coats, of course. I wondered where the fresh food came from. Or not. He's a reporter for the papers. In a nice way that, it is strictly social. A journalist, too. He writes for Jim Rubington's high-toned Tory Gazette. The gossip, mostly. So every red coat officer in town butters them up to get his name in the paper.  The end of the road are all mold in Connecticut. They take the stuff to Washington, personal property. And you know where they're stapled? By order of Robbie Townsend. Of course I don't wear. In general, Clinton's own private courtesy of black petticoat. The French in the process of did messages out with instructions to let themselves be capped patches say that the America sound. Yes, sir. Near my quarters. Outside Fairfield in Connecticut. And opposite Port Jeffersonford Sunrise. We hadn't known the perp the Culper Junior. He said that the Britishers had made plans to return to Whitestone if New York is threatened. I know. That is why I sent out the false writers. Their signal to turn about was to be a hilltop fire and a cannon shot on Eaton's neck in Huntington or Crane's neck in the Pocsteins or the Sips of Paris. Major, on the headland opposite. On Crane's neck. Still of handwriting experts. On earth the identity of those unsung heroes by deciphering the Culper code. Let them have now the laurels they so richly deserved. Abraham Woodhull, the organizer and leader. Robert Townsend, the source of information. Austin Rowe, the writer. Anna Strong, whose clothesline carried signals. Caleb Brewster, master of the longboat ferret. The last link were Arnold Moss, Carl Lilly Lodge, and Robert Dryton. And Mrs. Cy Harris, reminding you to be with us while Kate will present. Here's the better things for better living.


This programme contains strong language and sexual references throughout. Someone just shoot me in a ditch. Cut, and it's my ex George.  There you go. George, nice to meet you. What's that name, mate? Wow. All I first see is those gorgeous, gorgeous eyes. I'm gorgeous, George, and I'm a tubular technician. And in case you don't know what that is, it's a scavholder. I'm definitely a gentleman, but sometimes I can be a bit cheeky. I'll open the door for you, but I'm definitely smacking your arse on the way out. I met Bailey on a night out, Volcker started flowing, music started pumping, she started grinding. The next thing I know is we're in the cab, we're on the way home.  When Bailey sees me, I'm pretty sure it's game on. I just want to get in this filler, get to work, and do the business. What's happening? How are you? All right?  You know, I'll back myself against him any day. You know why I'm here? Got a bit of chemistry. I thought I'd come out here and just see what happens. Can I just ask, like, what's between me and you? Oh, it's between each other for a few years, and last year we just had fun for about two months, so, yeah. It's good to see George again, we've known each other for years. But I look at Bobby's face and he looks like he's absolutely shitting himself. The alpha male's here and I'm ready to take over. Where are you trying to get back? See how it goes, mate. I'm seeing the word. Whatever. Yeah, mate. My experience here is obviously sort of hooked up in here, and now I'm here. Are they your ears? I trust Bailey down to the grand.   Oh, my God. I don't want that anymore. Welcome to the beach, George. As the ex, you have the extra power to choose. You can either take Rianne or Bailey on a date. I'm obviously going to take Bailey. I want to see where her red's at, see if she wants to take things further with this little squirm. If not, I'm steaming in. Oh, God, what's happened? If I crack on, you're going to fall out. I don't want to talk to you, so that's the situation. It's Aaron. Of course, it's Aaron. Everything's about Aaron, big dog Aaron.  I've got nothing to be jealous of if you've seen yourself. I'm not interested in you. I'll move on and stop trying to cop block me then, because I know that Dominica wants to crack on to me, but she won't because I'm crazy daisy. What happened between us? Didn't work out. That's fine. I'll happily be friends if you want, if not fine. That's fine, but you don't need to go to every single girl. I try and speak to her and go, if she speaks right, and we're not going to be friends. I think, firstly, that's really shady that you've walked in here and said that. I've seen you've broken our trust already. I said I'm going to distance myself because of your benefit, actually, because I think that it's uncomfortable for us to carry on. Where did I choose up? For one second. The remark I made about your manners, you just proved me right. No, do you know how rude it is for interruptions?  Shut up, that's a really, really good manners on it.  There's your silver spoon.    Yeah, it was alright. Are you kidding? It's about minor body situation. So have you backed Bobby? Of course. Told you. Told you. She's been exactly how I wanted to be. So this is the release. So there was no flirting? No. No.  Oh, wow. Was there any flirting or not? No, tell me. A man to man, like, just be honest. Well, like, obviously, like, there's still, like, a little thing, like, we're attracted to each other. Ooh. Oh. Look at Bobby's face. I can't pretend no more.  What way? You'll see. You'll see what? I'll just lay it out there, shall we? Whatever. To be honest with you, we had a kiss.  No, I'm sorry.   No, I'm sorry.    After the conversations we've had, and, you know, just to explain that we care about each other and want to progress with each other, I, I thought Bailey would never do that to me in a million years. He's got no loyalties. The only one you should have had loyalties.