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Mastering QuickBooks 2022 - Third Edition

By : Crystalynn Shelton
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Mastering QuickBooks 2022 - Third Edition

By: Crystalynn Shelton

Overview of this book

Whether you have bookkeeping experience or not, handling the financial side of your growing business requires expertise. With Mastering QuickBooks® 2022, Third Edition, you’ll learn how to use QuickBooks® to build the perfect budget, simplify tax return preparation, manage inventory, track job costs, generate income statements and financial reports, and perform all accounting-related tasks with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll be guided by an experienced Certified Public Accountant and Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor – from setup to core features and beyond. This new edition has every chapter revised to cover a range of new features and updates available, including smart invoicing and cash flow projections. You'll learn how to create multilingual invoices, track mileage, work with a cash flow dashboard that helps you with cash forecasting and planning reports, and upload batches of bills and checks. This book will also teach you how to manage sales tax, including how to set up, collect, track, pay, and report sales tax payments. In addition to this, you’ll explore how to export reports to Google Sheets, use the custom chart builder, import budgets, and perform smart reporting. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with QuickBooks and have the confidence to manage all your bookkeeping tasks with ease.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Setting Up Your Company File
8
Section 2: Recording Transactions in QuickBooks Online
13
Section 3: Generating Reports in QuickBooks Online
18
Section 4: Managing Employees and Contractors
21
Section 5: Closing the Books and Handling Special Transactions
24
Other Books You May Enjoy
25
Index

Generating the Audit Log report

QBCU
5.3.1

The Audit Log report shows you everything that has happened in your company file so you can keep track of who has been in QuickBooks and what they have been doing. It shows you the date a change was made, the user who made the change, what the change (event) was, and the history if there is more than one change that was made.

Follow the steps below to generate the Audit Log report:

  1. Navigate to Reports in the left menu bar, as shown in Figure 12.20:

    Figure 12.20: Navigating to the Report Center from the left navigation bar

  2. Scroll down to the Business overview section and select Audit Log, as shown in Figure 12.21:

    Figure 12.21: Clicking on Audit Log in the Business overview group

  3. The Audit Log report will appear:

    Figure 12.22: Sample Audit Log report

    At the top of the report, there are three fields you can use to filter the report by User, Date changed...