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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

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at anybody that would like to get the most out of their QuickBooks Online subscription.

For a business owner using QuickBooks reading this book, not every chapter will be relevant. If you are a bookkeeper or accountant, the book should become a great reference tool. As and when you need to help different business types that are getting started with QuickBooks Online, simply jump to the appropriate chapter.

When businesses grow, they may need to implement different apps. This book looks at how QuickBooks Online can be adapted to suit most business models by only using the tools that are available in QuickBooks Online. This is perfect when getting started and working to a budget.

The book does not cover the very basics and general use of the software. The book is designed for readers already familiar with QuickBooks Online. If you need assistance with the basics, please check out other titles from Packt, and the free webinar tutorials provided by Intuit that help when getting started.