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Yr wyf ei sydd yn gwneud yn rhan o'i cyllideithio bethau ddau iарadau fod yn 5, 4, 5, 3, yn y rhan o Clare Adamson, o'r gaffau ysgol y gwynfer 2022 i'r byw sy'r yngrif yn wrth gwrs y gyrfaith. Mae'n symud i gwneud yn gwneud rhoeddoedd, rhaid i gynnyddio bryddoch chi arlineg wrth ygaf chi a fyddwn i yn ddym ni i gydig i'r tyfn o'u gwnfyrdd. Ar hyn, rwyf i'n gydig i'r gweithio bethau ysgol ydw i ddiweddon i gael eu gwrs ffrindwyr I'm delighted to highlight Gas Safety Week 2022, which ran from 12 to 18 September and is co-ordinated by Gas Safety Register. I thank all colleagues who are speaking this evening and all those who signed the motion to allow the debate to take place this evening. I'd also like to thank organisations in the third sector, such as Age Concern Scotland, Rosba and industry organisations such as SGN, who get behind Gas Safety Week to promote safety in all our communities. That would have marked the twelfth year of the campaign. The events and activities around the initiative were cancelled in light of the sad death of Queen Elizabeth, but the messaging around Gas Safety Week remains every bit as important. Gas Safety Week emphasises a danger of poorly maintained gas appliances. That can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning. While I have lodged motions on the initiative and we have held events over a number of years, I believe that this is the first debate on Gas Safety Week in the Scottish Parliament. So, some fundamentals. Who are Gas Safety Register? Gas Safety Register provide a host of support and resources, including an interactive gas map tool, allowing consumers to find out how many unsafe gas jobs have been carried out and identified in their area. Formally known as Corgi, it's the official registration body of gas businesses and engineers in the United Kingdom. Anyone undertaking gas work in a commercial or domestic setting by law must be on the Gas Safety Register. A gas engineer can only be aligned to a registered business and be issued with a licence to undertake gas work if they individually hold a valid and current qualification. The register and all the services associated with it are operated on behalf of the relevant health and safety authority for each region, the health and safety executive in the United Kingdom. Gas Safety Register also provide a host of free resources and advice to help people to stay safe. In the interests of raising awareness, here are 10 simple steps to help to keep you safe and warm in your home. You should only use a Gas Safety Register engineer to fit and fix services, you can find the register online and you can check the credentials of any gas person when presenting as a Gas Safety Register engineer with their organisation. You can check both sides of your engineer's Gas Safety Register as each of the elements that are listed separately on their credentials and you must make sure that the engineer undertaking work is qualified in the particular area of work that they are undertaking in your home. Gas appliances need to be regularly serviced and checked. If you rent a home, you can ask for a copy of your landlord's current Gas Safety Record. Know the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. This is so important. CO poisoning can cause headaches, dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, collapse and lack of consciousness. Unsafe gas appliance can put you at risk of CO poisoning, also your pets at risk of CO poisoning and it can cause leaks, fires and explosions. One of the things about CO poisoning is that you may find that these symptoms alleviate when you leave your home. Indeed, I do not think that I am saying anything out of term when I say that one of my MP colleagues attended a gas safety event in Westminster and from that event realised that he himself could be suffering and it turned out was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and that is why raising awareness is so important. We also need to check gas appliances for warning signs. If there is a yellow flame and not a crisp blue one, that could indicate a problem. Also, black marks, stains around the appliance and too much condensation in your room can indicate a problem. Every home should have an audible carbon monoxide alarm. That alerts you if there is carbon monoxide in your home. However, I would go further and follow some of the other safety advice that suggests that you should pack a CO alarm when you are on holiday. Those are vital and can indicate if there is a problem in a temporary holiday accommodation or a caravan where there may be no working alarm, particularly when travelling abroad. You need to keep vents and chimneys clear so that you do not block up vents that have been put in for gas appliances. Use of gas appliances is also only for their intended purpose. Do not be tempted to use them for something that they were not meant for such as heating a room. The use of camping stoves and disposable barbecues in the context of carbon monoxide poisoning is very important, too. In a domestic setting, if they are used not as intended or used in enclosed space, they can also lead to carbon monoxide poisoning and sadly death. Know your emergency procedure. If you smell gas or suspect immediate danger, then familiarise yourself with emergency contacts at freely available for the relevant gas safety numbers in Scotland. More importantly, as we are doing today, spread the word. Share vital gas safety information with friends, family and neighbours and make sure that your communities stay safe. That is the purpose of gas safety a week, which is raising that awareness. I became interested in gas safety awareness because of a matter of social justice. Accidents disproportionately impact people in the most deprived areas. If you are passionate about equality and social justice, you have to be passionate about accident prevention and safety. Our constituents are facing a cost-of-living crisis, and while budgets are stretched to the limit, safety checks and annual services are something that could be overlooked, but they simply cannot be a discretionary spend. They are vital. I would ask the minister this evening, in his discussions with colleagues on the cost of living crisis, could he push for providers to offer discounted or free services to those who are most stressed from fuel poverty, in much the same way as fuel cards and payments may be accessed, as that may become a very vital issue? Running out of time quickly, as always, in those debates. I thank all my colleagues this evening, and I ask them to use their social media, use their presence in their communities to promote gas safety, not just in gas safety week but throughout the years, to keep our communities safe. Thank you very much, Ms Adamson, and I call Miles Briggs to be followed by Mark Griffin for around four minutes. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I start by thanking Claire Adamson on securing this member's debate this evening and for her campaigning on this issue, which is a very important issue, and I am pleased that this member's debates come to the chamber. It is welcome to have further discussion on the issue today, especially at a time when issues around gas are in the news so often, and it is worth reflecting that gas safety has significantly improved from where we were at 30 years ago. However, too often we do still hear reports around gas explosions in homes and the widespread destruction of property or even fatalities, or a carbon monoxide leak that results in people being poisoned, so raising public awareness is absolutely crucial. We already have and welcome the fact that we have gas safety week, yet that only scratches the surface of much more that needs to be done on this area. To maybe look towards how we can more regularly improve on-going public information campaigns, not just here in Parliament but by energy companies themselves, focusing on the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning. I was trying to remember before this debate whether or not my council tax actually included a piece of information on this, because I think it did, but I think that I might have been to the piece of paper that came with it, but there are ways in which we can make sure that public information is taken forward. Overall, in Scotland and the UK we have a reasonably good record on safety in our gas network. That being said, there are issues that need highlighted. One area that certainly needs to be addressed is the issue around proper maintenance of gas equipment by registered gas safety engineers. Many people will be unaware of the importance of this and are still unable, in many cases, to afford what will be a higher cost for paying for an annual check-up on appliances. With concerns that Claire Adamson rightly raised with the cost of living crisis and energy bills this winter, many people will just not have the income to check their appliances. Organisations and charities are already providing services like that, and I hope that we can promote that through our networks and genuinely maybe see how that can be widely accessed. Equally important is that we support tenants who request a gas safety certificate from landlords as well. Given that this is a legal obligation, I hope that all landlords should be aware of that obligation to make that available to their tenants. The Covid-19 pandemic has impressed upon all of us the real importance of having reliable and safe gas appliances and properties as people have spent more time in their homes as well. According to StayGasSafe.co.uk, one in five homes in Scotland, inspected by gas safety engineers, had unsafe gas appliances.  However, it is not just the duty of consumers to do that. It is also important that we look towards that corporate social responsibility, which Clare Edison touched upon. Helping to protect customers and save lives is vital. Carbon monoxide poisoning should be a concern of the past but regrettably is not. We need to see how—what I was taken with was a point around tourism, when people are going to caravans or visiting properties to take an alarm with them or for those properties to also be fitted with them and people having the confidence of their appliances they will be using while on holiday. That is an important issue to come out of this debate as well. According to a report by Corgi Home Plan in 2015, one in ten Scottish adults had suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in their own home, which is a truly staggering statistic, and one that reinforces the need to be vigilant about unsafe energy appliances. Awareness around carbon monoxide poisoning is still not where it should be, and I hope that this debate helps to demonstrate that. People often are associating it with death, but often, like has been highlighted, it is flu-like symptoms which present and can, in many cases, help to drive potential brain damage, strokes, depression, personality changes. There are other things that we need to highlight changes around. It has also been mentioned, odalis, which only adds to its menace. It is therefore crucial that utmost care is taken to ensure that any leaks and faulty appliances are identified and that we prevent that. To conclude, Deputy Presiding Officer, as we approach Scottish winter months, I would like to see all organisations involved in gas provision to throw their weight behind this campaign and how we extend it beyond gas safety week. I very much welcome the fact that Claire Evans has brought this debate to Parliament and I hope that this is a beginning of what can be a substantial piece of work to try to drive all deaths down during this. I would like to draw members' attention to my register of interests, which shows that I am an honour of rental property in North Lanarkshire. I am grateful to Claire Addinson for bringing this debate to the chamber today. Given the winter that we face with increased cost of heating, housing and food, it is more important than ever that we recognise the risks of unsafe gas appliances. The annual service is obviously key to making sure that we can go through winter without having to potentially face a cold bath or a shower and that the heating does not fail when temperatures get really low. I suspect that, worryingly so, like Claire Addinson and Miles Briggs have already touched on, that the costs of servicing those appliances will probably seem like at an expense that could be saved by many households who are struggling this year in particular. Having taken a look at the gas map tool that Claire Addinson references in our motion, it is really concerning to see the numbers of unsafe gas appliances in every community across Scotland. I had a look around the areas around my home in Cymru that show hundreds of unsafe boilers, unsafe cookers and unsafe fires that are really concerning the number of unsafe appliances that are out there. For tenants in private and social sector housing, those services should be conducted regularly, but we know that some landlords do fail to fulfil their legal duties to maintain a property or sometimes can have problems in getting access to properties to carry out those annual checks. Plenty of tenants as well are ultimately unaware of their rights to have their appliances serviced and even the very existence of the Repairing Standard, a report by rentbetter published in May that found amongst its sample that private tenants were dissatisfied with repairs in the condition of their homes, that they had low awareness of rights, including the Repairing Standard, and they had a lack of confidence or a fear of exercising their rights due to potential repercussions of rent increases or being evicted just for asking for a safe standard to be maintained. I absolutely welcome the Government's plan for a tenants' rights campaign, but perhaps our awareness campaigns need to be broader or at least more integrated when it comes to different strands of tenants' rights. I also wanted to touch on the risks of the dangers of poorly maintained gas appliances that Claire Adamson's motions referred to, which can cause fires and carbon monoxide poisoning. We all know the measures that we can take to make our homes safer, but they can be costly. Sometimes it costs particularly that some people can't afford right now and, like I say, people will be reconsidered whether they should service their gas supplies this year. In February, the new smoke and fire alarm standard was introduced, costing an average of £250 per household at a cost that households have already borne. Complaint households will now have much better protection, but the cost was far from insubstantial. The cost and benefit are a double-edged sword for low-income homeowners. The £1 million that was eventually allocated to help low-income households wasn't quite enough. FYI's, I obtained regarding the first tranche of cash, put installations at £325 each. The total that would probably deliver about 3,000 installations against an estimated £60,000 plus eligible need an upgrade. I wonder what action the Government has been able to take and hope that the Minister can outline in closing when the next housing quality standard survey will be published detailing the progress that has been made to meet that standard and, like Clare Adamson and others, given the costs of those installations, it would make sense to see what work can be done to limit or reduce the cost of an annual service for those struggling most. I know that many people will be avoiding turning on the heating for as long as possible this year, but when we do, having those appliances working in the best order could be a matter of life or death, so it's of utmost importance that those appliances are serviced. Mr Griffin, it's good to see your doorbell in fine working order. I now call Siobhan Brown, who is the last speaker in the opening debate for about four minutes. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I start by thanking my colleague Clare Adamson for bringing this very important debate to the chamber this evening and also highlighting some really important points in her speech. It is so important that people understand the importance of gas safety and the dangers of gas that can cause death and serious injury. Worringly, figures from research by Gas Safe Register had gas safety at the bottom of their list of priorities for homeowners. Only 12% of home buyers would fit in a new boiler, whereas 27% would prioritise redecorating the home first. Deputy Presiding Officer, unfortunately, I have a community within my constituency who has been devastated by a gas explosion and know only too well the devastating consequences. Last year, around 7pm on Monday 18 October, a major gas explosion devastated the Kincaidson community in my air constituency. The explosion was heard miles away in neighbouring towns. I remember vividly my windows rattling and hearing a big bang, which I dismissed as my children upstairs maybe just jumping off a bed, to shortly afterwards an image of devastation, panic and chaos appearing on social media. File services, police, ambulance were all redeployed at pace to assist at the scenes, and sometimes one does not appreciate the emergency services until you see them in action in a national emergency like that night. I would like to put my personal thanks and gratitude for all the emergency services who worked relentlessly that night and in the days after that awful event. In the moments after the blast, there was confusion, panic and fear. Hundreds of people were evacuated, four houses were destroyed, windows were shattered, cars were destroyed and there was a community in panic. Scenes that would be comparable to a war scene, not a quiet neighbourhood Monday night in air. For many hours, nobody knew what had happened and how many were injured. The local community centre opened its doors and the community of Kincaidson pulled together to try and make some sense of what had just happened and to support each other. Due to the devastation, it took days to confirm that thankfully there had been no deaths, but unfortunately a family of four were hospitalised that evening. What we saw in the following days was not only the community of Kincaidson coming together, but the whole of air pulled together individuals, donated food, supplies as well as all the local businesses and making sure those affected had essential supplies and a safe place to sleep while they waited for all clear to return to their homes. One year on, the people of Kincaidson are still haunted and recovering from that night. As time went on, the community demanded answers. Why did this happen? What could be done to prevent this happening again in the future? A recent HSE report revealed that the explosion was caused by corroded pipes running through the estate, laid down by the predecessor to SGN. Before that report was published, SGN did prioritise replacing the whole gas pipe work in the area from the old lead pipes, which were laid in the 1970s, to the new safer plastic pipes. I would like to take this moment to ask that lessons can be learnt from this gas explosion in Kincaidson. We need to prioritise replacing of the old lead pipes to the new safer plastic pipes as a matter of urgency throughout our communities. The reason I raise this incident is that it shows that gas is something to be treated with respect and with caution. Fail to do that, then it could result in life-changing consequences. We go on to turn our heating a hot water without thinking about it. The problem is we often don't realise how dangerous gas can be until it's too late. Although the Kincaidson explosion was unrelated to the residents' activities, there are still important lessons that we can take from that night. Let me echo the statements that have already been made.  Please write that down and save it on your phones and share it with family and friends. This is an emergency number we should all remember. We could also take important and easy steps to prevent gas leaks. Have your gas appliances serviced and safety checked every year using the gas safe registered engineer? It's a small thing to do, but it will give you peace of mind and can perhaps save your life. Thank you very much, Ms Brown. I now invite Patrick Harvie to respond to the debate minister for around seven minutes, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, and I of course thank Claire Adamson, as others have done, for bringing the motion for debate and thank the contribution of all members from across the chamber on what is clearly an important, but also a life-saving matter, whether in relation to a sudden traumatic event, such as the one that Siobhan Brown just described, thankfully rare but nonetheless traumatic, or indeed the slower and more invisible danger of issues such as carbon monoxide poisoning, which Claire Adamson and others have mentioned. All of that is a reminder of how important and how potentially life-saving it is to take gas seriously, as Siobhan Brown just mentioned. Gas safety week is an annual safety week that provides a platform for the industry, as well as consumer organisations and individuals across the UK in raising awareness with the whole public of the issues of gas safety and the importance of taking care of gas appliances. It is co-ordinated by the Gas Safe Register, the official list of gas engineers who are legally allowed to work on gas appliances. As Claire Adamson mentioned, and as all members will appreciate, the death of the Queen meant that much of the Gas Safety Week activity was not taken forward by Gas Safe Register as planned. However, despite some scaling back of the planned activity, Gas Safety Week has been active since 2011, has gone from strength to strength in engaging the wider public in innovative ways as the motion rightly sets out, and I commend all of that work and all of those who have been involved in it. They have our thanks for keeping people safe. Claire Adamson is right to ask the Government to consider what more we can do to make sure that support and prevention work is targeted to those who need it most, including those households facing the most severe cost of living impacts. I will certainly take that up and have a discussion with colleagues. It may be that there is a role not only for Government but also for industry and the third sector in helping to make that happen. In my role as Minister for Heat and Buildings and Zero Carbon Buildings, members will be aware that that makes me a Minister for a Post-Gas Future. My job and the Scottish Government's priority, and indeed a shared priority for all of us who supported Scotland's ambitious and essential climate targets, is to support households and businesses to move not only towards more energy-efficient buildings but also away from gas and towards zero carbon sources. However, as things stand right now, gas plays a very significant part in how we heat our homes and buildings and how we cook. It is important that, even as we accelerate that transition towards decarbonised homes, gas safety remains on our agenda all year round, not only during gas safety week. It is not always, though, a priority that is at the front of our minds as individuals and as householders. The importance of having gas appliances safely checked by gas safe engineers at least once a year cannot be underestimated. If left unchecked, poorly-serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning. This year's gas safety week focused on the steps that consumers can take to ensure that they stay safe themselves. That includes some things that we should not do, not attempting DIY work on gas appliances, for example. Being aware of the warning signs as well of unsafe appliances such as dark or city staining and it is worth reiterating the important actions that people can take positively to ensure that they remain safe. A faulty gas appliance can cause injury or death, and it is important to ensure that all those appliances and the associated equipment are safe to use. They should be regularly serviced by qualified, competent gas engineers who are gas safe registered. Only engineers who are gas safe registered can service gas appliances and equipment, including boilers, portable heating or lighting, gas fires and cooking appliances. No-one must ever use gas appliances that they think might be faulty and ensure that vents, grills and flues are kept free from obstruction. Faulty appliances and restricted ventilation can also, as we have heard, lead to a dangerous build-up of carbon monoxide in the home. Fitting, as Clare Adamson said, fitting and maintaining a carbon monoxide detector can give people a warning of a faulty appliance. That is why the Scottish Government made it a legal requirement to include a carbon monoxide detector in any room with a carbon-fuelled appliance. I would strongly encourage everyone to look into fitting one of those detectors as soon as possible if they have not yet done so. As members will be aware, gas safety legislation is reserved to the UK Government and applies across the UK, covering a wide range of gas safety issues. Regulation 36 of the Gas Safety Installation and Use Regulations 1998 sets out the statutory duty on annual gas safety inspections. As is the case in each UK administration, our building regulations also set out requirements relevant to the initial installation of gas appliances. The person responsible for the building is required to ensure that a new combustion appliance is installed to operate safely. For gas-fired appliances, our supporting guidance cites the UK legislation that is applicable to both installations and to the competence of the installers. As Mark Griffin mentioned, for those who live in rented accommodation, both social and private, landlords are responsible for ensuring that necessary safety checks are carried out. Our new deal for tenants proposals show our determination to continue to strengthen the position for tenants in Scotland. The Scottish Government's prescribed information legislation for private landlords began on 16 September 2019. That means that when a landlord is either applying online for registration for the first time or renewing their registration online, they will be required to complete questions on gas safety certification. Landlords have three main responsibilities to carry out those gas safety checks every year, to provide the tenant with a copy of the annual gas safety certificate and to ensure the continued safety of pipework, appliances and flues by carrying out maintenance work. As a landlord, it is a legal requirement to provide a gas safety certificate for their property for the current year and to check and retain that certificate for the previous two years. That certificate confirms that the gas installation is safe and all gas appliances are safe and free from danger. In winding up, we have heard about the various regulations in place to protect consumers. They play a vital role, but it is also important to recognise the role of supporting consumers to protect themselves. Householders must remember that they should only use engineers who are on the gas safe register. The register is easily accessible online and can either be used to find a local registered business or to check whether a particular business is on the register. Initiatives such as Gas Safety Week have a vital role to play in supporting consumers in making wise choices when they have work done on gas appliances. In closing, I want to put on record once more the Government's sincere thanks to all those who have supported Gas Safety Week, and I hope that people will make use of the available material and ensure that their gas appliances are checked over by gas safe engineers so that they and their family members are safe. Thank you very much indeed minister. That concludes the debate, and I close this meeting appointment.


QuickBooks Online 2022. Jobs, sub-customers, and projects. Get ready because it's go time with QuickBooks Online 2022. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars practice file. We set up with a 30-day free trial holding down control, scrolling up just a bit to get to that 1-2-5% where currently in the home page, otherwise known as the Get Things done page. And the business view as compared to the accounting view. If you wanted to change to the accounting view, it's something you can do by going to the cog up top down to the accounting view. We will be toggling back and forth between the two views either by going here or jumping to the sample company file, which is in the accounting view just so we can take a look at where the different items are located with the two views. Now we want to talk about jobs, sub-customers, and projects, a confusing area for multiple different reasons. One being that this is an area of specialization meaning particular types of industries would need the job costing or to be tracking specific types of projects typically when you have a situation where you have longer term projects that you want to be tracking items costs and expenses related to. So therefore we're not going to get into it in a lot of detail here because it's a specialty type of area, but we want to touch on it. Two, it's also confusing because the terminologies can be similar or we might use different terms for the same thing. So for example, jobs and sub-customers have similarities to it. And three, we have similar type of functionality, but functionalities that are different within the software. In other words, in this software you've got the sub-customers which in essence act like jobs that were in the QuickBooks desktop, and then you've got the new item which is in essence the projects. So the projects has some overlap in terms of what it can do, its functionality of what you might use them for as the sub-customers or what used to be called the jobs. So now the question is when you're in the QuickBooks online system, if you're in a system where you have a job cost type of system or you want to track items for a specific job, then do you want to use the sub-customers or do you want to use the projects? That's the first kind of question that you want to be thinking about. So if you're in a type of industry where you want to be tracking these longer term type of projects or jobs and related to particular customers, then do you want to do that with the projects? Do you want to do that with the sub-customers? Oftentimes in the online system you might be moving over to the projects because that's kind of the newest type of thing that has some different types of functionalities with it. The other confusing components you want to look at is that you could basically also use sub-customers in alignment with the projects, that's why they could still be applicable and useful why you still have those two type of things that could be involved in the same type of software and also if you're moving from another software like QuickBooks desktop it doesn't have the projects features at this time, it has jobs. The jobs if they were converting into the online version would be basically the sub-customers and not the projects. So if you were to be converting from the desktop version into the online version you need to be careful that if you're trying to use the projects system in the online version then you need to be careful in knowing that you might not be able and most likely will not be able to just import all the jobs and convert them over to projects because those are two different things. Okay that said let's go into our get paid and paid center, basically the customer center and the business view. I'm going to go into the customers up top which is in the get paid area. If we were in the accounting view it would be in the sales area basically the customer cycle and we would be going into the customers area here. Alright let's go back on over to the business view and then I'm going to close this back out. So first let's think about the sub-customers because these are basically the similar or similar thing to the jobs. So if you worked with the desktop version, if you've worked with jobs you're basically saying hey I've got a customer I'm going to make a job that's a sub-customer or subordinate to the customer and I'm going to track costs that are related to that particular job. So you might have for example one customer and you might be doing multiple different jobs for them that are taking longer term status of the job and doing like a job cost type of system and you would be tracking the information for the particular job under the job being the sub of the customer. So we could do that a couple different ways. We could say okay let's go into for example setting up a sub-customer for Jones guitars. So what I'm going to do to do that is I'm going to go up top and I'm going to say I want to have a new customer I'm just going to add it as if it were a new customer but I'm going to click off this little check box saying it's a sub-customer which is kind of similar to a job if you worked with the desktop version and then I'm going to say sub-customer of Jones guitars and there it is and the only other information I'm going to put is going to be the number I'm going to just call it the number is going to be 3005 so I'm going to say there's job number 3005 you might put more of a description on the job number other than the job number but I'm just going to put 3005 is going to be the job and it's going to go for Jones guitars it's going to be a sub-customer of Jones guitars well I can't why won't that pull up Jones guitars there it is and then we have this item down here which is to bill with the parent so when I create basically the payments from the parent could be applied then to this particular job and when I create statements I can then apply the statements will be on the job statements will be on the statements for the parent customer or I can say bill this customer which is going to basically separate those items and this distinction is one of the reasons that you might kind of use the jobs or these sub-customers in alignment with the projects because when you set up a project as we'll see when we get into the project side it's possible for you to assign the project to the customer or you can assign the project to a sub-customer if you wanted to do that and then possibly have the sub-customer kind of separate with regards to the billing of this customer and so that's one way you can use this in alignment but I'm not going to get into that in too much detail here so we're going to go ahead and save this let's just save this and see what it looks like and so now if I was to see my customers let's go back I'm going to hit the little icon or the little hamburger there is our sub-customer here let's go back to our customers just so we see what it looks like here and there is our sub-customer I'm going to create another tab up top right-clicking on the tab up top and duplicate that tab and then if we wanted to basically invoice something to a particular job we can then invoice it to the job as we create our forms so I can say okay if I was going to make an invoice now and invoice it and I wanted to apply it to the job or sub-customer I'm going to say 3005 and then pick it up so notice it picks up the parent Jones guitars and then the number 3005 so I'm going to close that back out do you want to save without yes let's go back on over and let's just do another one and say we were going to do one for Sam the guitar man so I'm just going to say if I wanted to create a sub-customer which is like a job I just say new I'm going to say this is for this is going to be for a sub-customer of Sam the guitar man and I'm going to say the name is just going to be a number for us 4002 and then it will be a sub-customer I'm going to bill it with the parent which is the default so I'm going to save that and so there we have then the sub-customer here as well Jones and Sam the guitar man and then obviously you could track information basically to the sub-customer or in essence basically the job now projects let's take a look at the projects and compare that to the projects I'm going to go to the tab to the right let's go to the tab to the right and the projects are located in the business overview if you were in the accounting view just be simply on the left hand side projects and so we have our projects here and then I'm going to close up the hamburger and it says run your projects with confidence make better decisions by knowing how your jobs are doing profitability in one place organize your project finances with a clear view of profits keep track of your labor costs QuickBooks help you connect the dots between your payroll and projects so it has a little bit more functionality also note that this one is now here I believe with QuickBooks online plus it used to be something that was you had to basically level up for they had you know it was an added feature and so on so now you basically have access to it and with the QuickBooks online plus I believe and so and it's obviously the thing that they're trying to integrate into play and work have been putting some work into so eliminate the guesswork and this payroll item is one of the areas they've been putting some improvements into as well eliminate the guesswork understand which projects make money and where you should focus your efforts and so we can you can look up again what you want to do when you're doing this on the online version is decide okay how am I going to use this am I going to use these sub customers or am I going to use the projects when you start your system out then you want to make sure that you're applying the proper system from the start because that's going to make it a lot it's one of those it's another one of those things where you want to basically measure twice cut once as opposed to tinkering with it until you get it right because it's going to be difficult to change your system from using basically a a sub customer system to a to a job cost system you can also use class tracking and and and location tracking in a similar kind of ways these functionalities have a lot of overlap within them so and that's it's great that you have all these tools but it also causes some confusion because you can do similar types of things with with these different tools which may or may not be beneficial depending on your specific needs so it really gets down to basically your specific needs and what you would like to do is pick the pick the thing that it's going to be of signing you best in your particular needs so that you don't have to switch it later on because converting from a whole different system of tracking your projects will be you know more time consuming than just hopefully getting the right system down and then just tinkering within that system that you are using so let's go ahead and just start a project just to see how it works we'll put the project name I'm just going to call it project one and then the customer so you can see it still applies out to a customer so let's put this one to to Anderson let's what let's put it let's put it also to Jones guitars Jones guitars on the customer and we're going to say the start date let's say just basically at the end at the beginning of the year I'm not going to put an end date and then you have your status ease which are not started so if it's not started you're just planning the project it's in progress that's typically where you need it to be if you're going to be assigning items to it completed would be it would be done and then canceled you no longer have the project if you were to make estimates or something like that to the project you know then you can use the estimates which wouldn't actually report or record a transaction because the estimate does not have any financial transaction and you might you know use the estimates for a project and then cancel the project or something like that but in progress then you've got the notes for the project and then I can save the project and basically the project is just going to be in essence a shell here that it's going to allow us to then post things to a particular project you've got the overview the transactions the time the project reports the income and expense information on down below for and for Jones guitars and in progress here if I was going to go to the first tab and I hit the hamburger and I was to add say an invoice again so I'm going to invoice and now I want to look at a particular project I can hit the dropdown and I've got Jones guitars now I've got the project and I've got the subcustom these are two different things they're not they're not the same thing if I named the project the same number like 3005 then that would be kind of confusing because these are these are two different items so you got to be aware of that I'm going to close this back out so there's our invoicing also note that if you go into your customer area on the get paid and pay area into the customer area and go down say for Jones the the subcustomer shows up in this area but you don't see the project in this area to get to the project you got to go to the project center and then you can track the information in the project center so if you wanted to go back let's go back to all the projects so now we're in all projects and let's basically take take a look at a new project again so let's say I was to say new project and this is going to be project two and then I'll put this one the other one for Sam the guitar man start date and then in progress so we'll keep that one I'll save that once again it goes into the project so now we're into the activity of the pro project we can add the information here instead of going to the tab to the right I can add the invoice for example I can add the invoice the receive payment the expense the estimate right here which will make it a little bit easier or less less likely for me to to basically assign it to the wrong area not the right project for example because if I add an invoice here it will put the project up top automatically instead of me having to locate it when I when I create the invoice closing this back out and then of course we can go back to the all projects and then we've got our two projects on down below that we can we can work with in the overview here so I won't go into the it's a specialty area to look at the to track the projects we won't go into it in a lot of detail here we might take a look at it in a future course or future presentation so we can drill down on it in a lot more detail but just note just realize that when you're setting up something that's going to have projects or something that has class tracking or location tracking or sub customers or jobs that you have all these different tools that have that are all great they have their unique benefits and their and their and their things that they cannot do and of course your goal then is to say OK which of these really neat tools can I use what combination of the tools do I want to use and I want to get that done from the start and if you're converting from a system like QuickBooks desktop on over then the question is you know what's the best system to convert into and how easy is the conversion process going to be how am I going to be able to convert to use and get in alignment with the data I currently have into the system I want to be using from here going forward


Yeah, I was just wondering, like, how did you actually navigate the social world? Because I imagine it's the music industry is a bit different, kind of. Well, abnormal everyday jobs. It's like this. First of all, this goes for anyone who grew up in my area or whatever in my city. Everyone had a code of respect. Sure. So when you're in a room, you shake hands with everybody in the room, even if you don't know them. You introduce yourself. So there's that to consider. I would say you got, it's a bit of also just doing how to navigate a network because the music industry itself is very, it's all about, well, most of it's about who you know. So if you could find somebody and you could strike up a conversation, that's the best way to handle it. I've been like the nightlife for years. So a lot of my music connections in the beginning came from being at bars or clubs. And I would like network around. And also my city was very entrepreneurial. So it's easy to find somebody who probably is trying to start out and do a thing and do their and be on their grind. People would hand out business cards everywhere from bars to clubs. Some of my past business card. So it all was about that. So I'd say there's that I'd say respect. You respect the people at the top and they respect you back. A lot of it had to do with respect with like respect and coming off as someone who gives respect, but at the same time, someone like that should be respected in a way too. Like, I don't know if it's because of my disability, but there's just times I in the back of my head, I'll hear a voice and it's like, mother, prove yourself like right when I get up at that mic. Yeah. And it's like, I feel like I don't know if it's what I've been through or the trauma I faced or what that was. But it just, it's always kind of there, whether I'm doing an open mic or it's performing anywhere. So I would say that. It's kind of like either a positive self-talk. Like, is that the kind of thing that you're going for? Is it like? It's a bit of both. Because then you put a lot of pressure on yourself and you go through a lot. You're not just sleepless.  But at the same time, too, it's what I would say, too, when it comes to everything about the social aspect of the music industry. When I went to Toronto, it was a very kind of similar situation, but now you're around people who are even way more high up. Because when I applied for the places to be in Toronto for training, you know, they have an interview process, you get in, you go in there and you talk to a lot of people. I've been around judo-nominated artists, which are kind of like our top awards for Canada. I've been around people who said they've worked with Drake and all that.  Is that something that you've learned? Did you have to learn that or is it kind of...? It's a little bit of both. I feel like there's times I probably bigged up myself in some situations where I felt like I could have done better. I don't have to be like that. You have to be so ego-intuitive, but at the same time, though, you learn from it and you figure out how to do better next time. You go in there kind of shake hands. So it's like it's a bit of doing yourself without a say, but also learning to keep humble, but also wanting more in a push and being on your grind, your hustle. It seems like you've got kind of like the social landscape quite sussed out. I mean, were there any situations that you had that really kind of... Being autistic, sometimes we struggle to sort of comprehend very complex things that aren't like said to us to our face. Do you find that there's been situations where perhaps you're not really getting things as become an issue? Oh, I got a funny story with you on this one. Okay. Stories are rolling. So at one point, this is where I look back and I say I could have done better. So I knew this other other MC from the same area as I am from and me and him knew each other for years. He's seen me from when I was 19, so trying to take it more seriously and whatever. And it's been ironed out between me and him. He's forgiven me. I apologize for the way I was or whatever. As everyone was getting more opportunities to accept me. And I remember I went to, I think one of the events he was doing, I was like at the end, been kind of complaining or whatever. And he kind of like roasted me a bit too, but after said at the same time, well, we'll go and look for it. And the next thing you know, he sent me a message on... And he showed me that Toronto was looking for more people for a training program. And I put my application. Got it. First opportunity in Toronto. Nice. Nice. So that was like one of my names like, you want opportunity?  Is there any like programs that are for like disabled people to get into the music industry? I would say my area, I'm still looking for them. Yeah. I'm still looking for them. The majority of the places I trained for hip hop and rap were more of like POC places. Some members of the LGBTQ community were there. There are other people with disabilities there too. Other people with ADHD and other situations too. So that is one thing to kind of consider, but at the same time though, you just want to go in there and just show your respectful. Yeah.


In this presentation, we're going to record a pledge into our not-for-profit organization.  Here we are in our not-for-profit organization dashboard. We're going to go on over to Excel to see what our objective will be so we're on tab three within Excel. Now it's important to remember that a pledge is not going to be a donation really at that point in time because we have not yet received cash and it's also not going to be the same as a business transaction where we would typically record an invoice because there hasn't been any exchange that has happened, but there's going to be a similar kind of transaction as if we were to invoice a client for a for-profit type of organization. So just for the comparison, if we did bookkeeping or landscaping or something like that or if we sold something like a good or service, then typically we would have done the work and you can imagine billing or invoicing the customer for it and then they would owe us money at that point and they would pay us in the future. Now when you're talking about a business type of transaction, there's going to be a requirement to pay us in the future because we did work. We did work and therefore we have some kind of recourse if they do not pay us because there's been basically a transaction has taken place in that case. However, in a pledge type of situation, we're not for-profit organization. Therefore no work has really happened here other than us, you know, it's work to try to get a pledge for sure, but notice that we haven't actually provided anything to the customer. So that means that it's just a promise at this point in time and that's going to be a little bit different. So we want to make sure that we don't indicate it as basically, you know, the same thing as a receivable in the collectability of it and whatnot. So that might affect basically the collectability and definitely could affect the recourse that we might have if we have problems collecting on pledges. So a pledge promise to pay, but we're going to record it in a similar way as an invoice would be, which would be a service type of invoice, which means we're going to increase the receivable account, which we could call contributions receivable here. The other side is going to go to some kind of income account. Now here, we're going to record it as a restricted income for a time restriction. And this will just, this will basically reflect the fact that this isn't really income right now. It's basically restricted until we, until we get it. So we're going to put this into a type of restricted income. First time we've done that so far. So the accounts that would be affected if we were to post this would be a receivable goes up. We want to be able to track those receivables by who owes us money, what would be called customers or in this case, donors or pledgers. And then down below we have the revenue account, but we're going to put it into a different revenue account, still contributions, but with donor restrictions. In other words, we're going to say it's restricted due to a time restriction because we don't yet have the cash yet. So that's going to be our item that's going to be increasing here. And then the income statement in essence is going to go up in total. However, we want to be able to break this information out when we consider the income statement or the statement of activities by restricted items versus not restricted items without restrictions and with restrictions. Now we have a breakout between the two that we want to be breaking out. All right. So let's do that. Let's how could we do that over in zero? What we're going to do is we're going to use our tracking feature to do that. So we're going to go back on over to zero. We're going to hit the plus button up top. We're going to be making an invoice. So it's going to be an invoice. It's still called an invoice within the zero system, but we kind of customized it to make it like a pledge type of form. We could find that in the branding. So if I go to the branding dropdown over here, then I'm going to go to the pledge type of form. So I'm going to go to the pledge type of form. And we're going to say this is going to be going to a pleasure. I'm just going to call pleasure one. That's going to be the pleasure, the people that's the person that's going to be giving us money, the pleasure. And then I'm going to say the date is January for or January, not first. We want. Whoa, whoa, whoa, it went way crazy there may go off of that. Go back on here. We want January 3rd, let's go January 3rd. And then the due date, I'll just make February. So when do we expect it to be to be given to us by, I'm going to say February, let's say 3rd. And then the invoice number, I'll keep that branding is going to be, we want the pledge form. All right. So then we're going to go back down to the item down below. Now I'm going to add another item, which, as you recall last time or in a prior presentation, we had an item that we created for the sales receipt when it was a donation. People giving us money. Now it's a pledge. I'm going to make another item here for a pledge, I'm going to say pledge. And the reason is it can't be the same, the same item because the donation went to a different income account. Hold on a second, I have to hit the drop down and then say new. So we have the donation there. We need a new item and this is going to be a pledge. You'll recall that these items are basically kind of like income. They would be inventory or service items. Hold on, I'm trying to spell this right. I can't spell and think like other stuff at the same time or I can't spell with anyway. Okay. So this would be similar to service items or inventory items. We're going to set up, but we're going to set them up as pledges here. They're acting in a similar way for a for-profit organization. We're not going to have any unit price. You could have a different tiers of pledges if you so choose. If you have a standard set of pledges. You could put different items for those standard sets and then you can have a price that would then populate automatically. Then I'm going to select the drop down. We need a contributions note. We have a contributions here. We need another account. We want contributions that are restricted this time. So I'm going to put contributions restricted. I'm going to select the drop down then and say now we want the contributions. This is going to be a revenue type account which we call sales. I'm going to make it a sales type of account and it's going to be four zero one zero. Let's make it because the other one was four thousand I think. So four zero one zero the short name. We're going to say contributions and this time it's restricted. So these are restricted contributions and then I'm going to say that looks like good. So I'm going to say save here. We'll say save. And then so there we have it going to that account pledge. So we don't need any purchase item. We don't need any track item down here. We're not actually selling it but this is again equivalent to what we would be doing for like an invoice that we sold good as their services. This would be like the service that we would have. So we're going to say save then save. There's our pledge. There it is unit price. So the unit price how much was it for here. Let's go back to our journal entry because that's where the numbers are at. And we have the 108 the 108 now remember you could think of this as multiple pledges happening that would add up to the 108. We're just going to put one like a large pledge but all of them would be doing the same thing. So there's the pledge. We don't have a discount contributions restricted that looks good. And then we're going to say this is on the restricted side in terms of our categories. So let's put this in the category of restricted select the drop down and we're going to say it's a time restriction. So I'm going to say time restriction tab. Okay. So what's this going to do is a little bit complex as an invoice but it's an invoice that's going to be in the format of a pledge document. That means that accounts receivable of receivable accounts going to go up balance sheet accounts showing that people owe us money. Other side on the income statements going to be revenue but now it's going to go to a new revenue driven by the pledge item which is going to be the contributions restricted revenue account. So it's going to go into the restricted column if we were to break this out by category restricted column in more detail restricted by time. All right. Let's do it. Let's check it out. We're going to say approve. And then we're going to go to our reports and see if that is indeed what happens. Let's first make sure it records. Okay. Okay. Green thing up here. That's green is usually meaning we're good. I'm not even going to read it says it's good says invoice approved. So I read it. But that's still good. We're going to go into the accounting. We're going to go down to the balance sheet. Let's open up the old balance sheet here. And then let's change the date going to hit the date drop down bring this on out to January 31st January 3 1 2020 update. I'm going to hold down control and see if I could scroll in a little bit make it a little bit larger. I'm at the 1 2 5 1 2 5 on the zoom feature. And there's our checking accounts. So there's the checking account now there's the new thing. There's the receivable. That's the new thing that's happening. Other side's going to be in the equity because it's in the it's in the income section. So the accounts receivable if we were to select the accounts receivable then go into that AR that accounts receivable account. We will see the detail. There's our accounts transactions and then we could go into of course our invoice so the transaction is an invoice because that's what we made but it's really a pledge form someone promising to pay us money. So there it is. Now is to open it up. I could like print this as a PDF. Let's go ahead and print it as a PDF and see what it looks like. So would you like to mark this invoice as sent I'll say yeah we sent it and then open it up and so you can see here we could send this out and we're still basically saying hey it's an invoice give us money but it's work it's a pledge. We renamed it as a pledge that's what we did when we customized the form. So it's a pledge form. Would you give us money down here we have a little payment stub thingy and of course it looks a lot like an invoice to give us to give us the money. OK so then we're going to close this back up.  So let's right click on this tab let's duplicate this tab so I'm going to duplicate the tab then we're going to go back to the tab the left we're going to open up the income statement now by going to the accounting drop down and scrolling on down to that income statement. So let's open up the old income statement and then if I scroll down note I have it broken out in this format we have the contributions restricted and unrestricted so it's broken out by two separate accounts but you'll also note that we would like to have it broken out by the two categories which we can do so we did a little bit in a redundant type of way. Let's go over to Excel. I'm in Excel now and I'm going to go down to our statement of activities here so we have it we want it broken out this way as well. Because here I didn't I don't have two accounts on this on this statement of activities I just called it contributions and broke it out by column so by adding another account in other words we're being a little bit redundant but I like that because it's kind of a double check for us so if I was to go back over then we can sort this report using our report settings up top and we have our our categories of unrestricted and restricted I'm going to get into this in a little bit more detail in a future presentation because I want to spend a little bit more time on it than we have here at this point but we will take a look at that in a second in a future presentation so we can break these out not just by a one column report but start to think of how we can format this report with added columns now the other report I want to take a look at if I go back up top let's duplicate this tab right click on the income statement tab duplicate it then if we go back to the balance sheet note that we have this accounts receivable of the 108 now so if we go back to the first tab first tab and we go to the accounting drop down take a look at our reports we'd also want to be tracking who owes us the money so for that we could take a look at the age receivable detail let's say let's go into the aged receivable detail report open that one up and that'll help us track who owes us the money so there's the 108 thousand in the name it's just Pledger one because we recall the Pledger one and that of course should tie out the total of this report will tie out to what's on the balance sheet in the accounts receivable also note that we could rename the receivables if we so choose we had over here that it was what did we call it Pledger receivable or contributions receivable and over here of course it's called accounts receivable so we could change accounts receivable we could simply go to the chart of accounts and change it the key point here being that it's still an accounts receivable type of account so I won't do that now but we could just go and adjust the account name as we've seen in the past so I'm going to go back to the first tab again we can also track the contacts now notice these are we could think of them as customers if it was a for-profit they're pledgers for us here really so we're going to say contacts we can look at all the contacts so if I go to contacts on the left and then all contacts now contacts generally include the customers people that are going to give us money like the donors and the pledgers and then the vendors people that we pay so then if we go into our customer tab within our contacts there's our pleasure once again of the 108,000 so that's going to be it for now let's get out of here