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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)
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Section 1 – General Tips and Shortcuts
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Section 2 – Adapting QuickBooks Online to Suit Different Business Types
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Section 3 – Reviewing and Reporting Data in QuickBooks Online

Using Management Reports at Year-End

Throughout this book, we've run and customized various reports, and any report that is likely to be used in the future can be saved using the Save customization option. When you do save a report, the Add this report to a group option is available, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.21 – Saving a report to a group

Saving reports to a group is useful if they have been prepared for a specific purpose. Not only will they be grouped neatly within the Custom reports area, but it also makes it much easier when searching for a report, as the following screenshot illustrates:

Figure 11.22 – Searching for year-end reports

While checking and reconciling different account categories, we can save all the necessary reports that provide our supporting documentation: details that correspond with figures being summarized on the balance sheet.

Saved reports in a group will...