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Mastering QuickBooks 2021 - Second Edition

By : Crystalynn Shelton
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Mastering QuickBooks 2021 - Second Edition

By: Crystalynn Shelton

Overview of this book

Intuit QuickBooks is an accounting software package that helps small business owners to manage all their bookkeeping tasks independently. This latest edition of Mastering QuickBooks takes you through the range of new features and updates available in QuickBooks Online (QBO). Creating multilingual invoices, tracking mileage, working with a cash flow dashboard that helps you with cash forecasting and planning reports, and uploading a batch of bills and checks are just a few of the new features covered in this edition. As you progress, you’ll learn how to manage sales tax, including how to set up, collect, track, pay, and report sales tax payments. Dedicated sections will also take you through new content focused on the latest features in the QBO line-up, while also showing you the different types of businesses that can benefit from QBO Advanced. In addition to this, you’ll explore how to export reports to Google Sheets, use the custom chart builder, import budgets, perform smart reporting with Fathom, and much more. By the end of this QuickBooks book, you'll be well-versed with the features of QuickBooks and have the confidence to manage all your bookkeeping tasks with ease.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Your Company File
8
Section 2: Recording Transactions in QuickBooks Online
13
Section 3: Generating Reports in QuickBooks Online
18
Section 4: Managing Employees and Contractors
21
Section 5: Closing the Books and Handling Special Transactions

Setting up customized fields

Custom fields can be used to filter customers, sales, purchasing, expense, and vendor reports. QBO Advanced is the only QBO subscription that includes customized fields. A total of 48 custom fields can be created in QBO Advanced. Custom fields are split between customers, sales, purchase/expense, and vendor fields. A total of 12 custom fields is available for each of these four groups.

Follow the steps given here to add a custom field:

  1. Click on the Gear icon as indicated here:

  1. Select Custom fields as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. The following window displays after clicking on Custom fields:

  1. Click the Add custom field button as indicated in the preceding screenshot.
  1. The following window displays:

Here is a brief description of the fields that need to be completed:

Name (1): Type the name of the custom field here (for instance, Sales Rep).

Data type (2): When it comes to the type of data entered, you have four options to choose...