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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

Enabling Multicurrency settings

In this section, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Enable Multicurrency
  • Set up customers and suppliers that operate in foreign currencies
  • Set up a bank account in QuickBooks that uses a foreign currency

Within the Advanced section of Account and Settings, you will find the option to enable Multicurrency using a little slider button. With the toggle enabled, the Multicurrency settings will appear, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.1 – Multicurrency settings

Check that your Home Currency is correct before saving the settings – this is the currency your company generally operates in and needs to report against. It cannot be changed later.

Important Note

Multicurrency is a permanent setting that cannot be disabled once the feature has been enabled. If you don't have many foreign currency transactions throughout the year, you may find that manually converting values...