When commodity prices go down, it’s important to keep financial books on the ranch for more than just tax time. Three workshops on Quicken for Farm and Ranch Record Keeping will be held in the Panhandle in April.
Nebraska Extension educators will teach how to use Quicken, a popular commercial record-keeping package that is user friendly, inexpensive, and easy to find. Quicken is flexible for ag and non-ag business enterprises and separates out family living expenses.
Quicken’s checkbook register makes for a familiar environment to begin computerized record-keeping. Quicken comes with home and general business income and expense categories, but Educators will show how to easily import farm categories to match the tax Schedule F.
Quicken allows organization of finances by category and subclasses, but also a tag feature that is useful for splitting enterprises, by partnership share, or by ranch. Quicken allows users to split transactions, so one check written at a local gas station can be divided among several expenses: fast food, oil for the tractor, and farm fuel for the feed pickup.
Reports such as transactions, cash flow, account balances, balance sheet, comparison, and tax summary, can easily generated, information filtered and layout modified. Quicken files can also be exported to QuickBooks®, used by many tax accountants.
The hands-on training will include computer time with Quicken. Educators will also show how to run reports helpful for financial decisions.
Space at each workshop is limited to 10 participants. Cost is $20 per participant.
Schedule & Registration
- April 11, Bridgeport: 2-4:30 p.m. at the Morrill County Extension Office. To register call Jessica Groskopf at 308-632-1247.
- April 13, Rushville: 1-3:30 p.m. at the Sheridan County Extension Office. To register call 308-327-2312.
- April 13, Chadron: 6-8:30 p.m. at the Dawes County Extension Office. To register call 308-327-2312.
