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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

Revaluation of Foreign Currency Balances in QuickBooks

All foreign currency exchange rates are held historically in QuickBooks, and as we have learned already, these rates may change daily. Exchange gains/losses are calculated automatically at the point of payment.

When an invoice has been created for a foreign customer, a rate stored in QuickBooks will be used to calculate the Home Currency Value. If several months have passed, and the balance of that invoice remains unpaid, the value of that invoice in the home currency may have increased or decreased.

In this section, you will learn how to use the tools within QuickBooks to revalue foreign currency balances and how those revaluations impact the financial reports.

Within the drop-down ACTION menu of any currency listed within Currencies, you will find the option to Revalue currency:

Figure 7.24 – The Revalue currency option

Let's take an example where our home currency is GBP, and we...