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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

Editing reports to display Foreign Currency values

When it's time to review reports that include entries that have been recorded in a foreign currency, balances report in the home currency by default. Imagine that you have suppliers in different currencies. Customizing reports can make life so much easier when checking the foreign amounts that are due to be paid.

It's not possible to customize all reports, and reports that display a summary will often only be reported in the home currency. If we run an Accounts Payable Ageing Summary report, we are limited regarding the customizations we can make.

However, if we run an Accounts Payable Ageing Detail or Unpaid Bills report, a lot more options become available when it comes to customization.

Let's take the Unpaid Bills report as an example. Using the Customize option, we can make some simple changes, as follows:

  • Filter: Select the supplier/vendor you wish to generate a report against.
  • Rows/Columns...