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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

Importing budgets into QuickBooks Online

You can save time by importing company-wide and generic budgets rather than using actual reporting. This feature is ideal for non-profit organizations that need to manage profit and loss budgets.

Unfortunately, the QBO Advanced test drive does not include the import budgets functionality. Therefore, we were not able to provide you with screenshots or additional details about this feature.

To access the import budgets feature, navigate to the gear icon and select Budgeting. Follow the onscreen prompts to create a budget from scratch or import a budget using existing data. Keep in mind that budgets are only available in QBO Plus and QBO Advanced. 

You can save a ton of time creating recurring invoices in QuickBooks by using the batch-create invoice feature. We will cover this topic next.