Paying the bills

In the right-hand large desk drawer, the first three folders contain bills to pay and taxes to pay.  Once a week (Thursday), just go through the file piece by piece.  Match receiving reports and packing slips with invoices, and staple them together with the invoice on the front.   

To decide exactly which bills to pay, I normally balance the money we have in the bank against the ease of paying several bills at once.  For instance, I pay all of the Dayton bills at once, whether they're due or not, because they're not very big.  With Ingram, I normally don't pay much ahead because they're often large.  Try to pay any bill at least 3 days before it's due, to allow for mailing time.  What I do is figure out the next time I'll pay bills, and pay everything that will be due before three working days before that.  We have an excellent Dun & Bradstreet rating, and it's due mostly to our promptness in bill paying.

The Avista bill should be charged against the "cyb" business.  We do this in lieu of rent.

When you're through paying, run the "payable" report and glance through it for discrepancies - old bills that haven't been paid but are not in the folder, etc.  In the Cactus menu, A/P, "To Pay Report".

If the printer has been turned off, or the computer re-booted, the printer will go back to its default paper size, which doesn't fit the checks.  Frank has made an easy way to re-set the printer.  Go to a DOS prompt, and type "copy  canon7.raw   lpt1" at the C: prompt.  This resets the page length on the BJ-300.

When you get to the last section, taxes, there's another page to read.  Sorry!