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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

Creating a Project

Using a project for a customer provides a distinct separation between different jobs you could be working on for a single customer. We'll take an example of an advertising and marketing agency.

The agency has a customer that supplies health food supplements, and they have a new protein shake that they are trying to promote. There will be design work involved to produce leaflets and website advertising banners (time costs), and the agency will use suppliers for printing and other advertising costs (bills and expenses).

The agency will produce an estimate for the work to be done. When the initial concept has been put together, 50% of the work will be invoiced, and the remainder will be charged when the job has been completed.

Before we can do any of the preceding, we need to create our project, and this is very easy to do. From the Left Navigation panel, select Projects. If this is the first project, there will be a guide to help you get started. If any...