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Professional Tips and Workarounds for QuickBooks Online

By : Ashley Beetson
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Professional Tips and Workarounds for QuickBooks Online

By: Ashley Beetson

Overview of this book

Accountants and bookkeepers can sometimes face challenges while coming up with solutions to help their clients. QuickBooks Online, a popular cloud accounting software, comes with a wide range of tools that can take time to learn. This book will show you how to properly combine the tools available in QuickBooks to get the most out of this software. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, the book will begin by helping you understand how to create opening balances for a new company. You'll then discover essential bookkeeping and accountancy tips and tricks, and find guidance to help make QuickBooks as easy to use as possible. As you advance, you'll explore different scenarios in which QuickBooks Online can be used for various business types. This will help you understand that not every business is the same, but using the wide range of functionalities QuickBooks Online offers, you can customize solutions to really make it work for you. By the end of this QuickBooks book, you'll have gained deep insights into how you can use QuickBooks Online to work for different business types, and you'll have a complete checklist of the different things you should be doing when you start reviewing accounts ahead of tax season.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1 – General Tips and Shortcuts
4
Section 2 – Adapting QuickBooks Online to Suit Different Business Types
10
Section 3 – Reviewing and Reporting Data in QuickBooks Online

Chapter 9: Enhancing the Consistency of Your Financial Statements

In Chapter 8, Best Practices when Reviewing Financial Records, we started by looking at some best practices for reviewing financial records, uncovering some common errors, and making corrections and adjustments where necessary.

Continuing with our theme of reviewing our accounting entries, we may need to make some enhancements. At this stage, we've just covered the basics, and that means making sure that the bank accounts have been fully reconciled and that the customer and supplier balances have been checked and are up to date.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Common errors associated with chart of accounts
  • Common errors associated with products and services
  • Using journals to adjust for accruals and prepayments
  • Using other options – Classes, Locations, and Tags

Now that we have some understanding of accounting principles and concepts, we can check our...