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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

Running payroll

After setting up your employees, you are ready to run your first payroll. It’s important to run payroll so that your employees are paid on time and to ensure you meet all of your payroll deadlines to the state and local tax authorities.

Running payroll in QBO can be done in six easy steps:

  1. Click on Workers on the left menu bar to navigate to the Payroll Center:

    Figure 15.8: Clicking on Workers to navigate to the Payroll Center

  2. Click the Let’s go button as indicated to create paychecks for employees:

    Figure 15.9: Clicking the Let’s go button to run payroll

  3. On the next screen, you will select employees and enter the payroll hours, as indicated in Figure 15.10:

    Figure 15.10: Selecting employees to run payroll for

    A brief explanation of the payroll processing screen follows:

    • Bank account: From the drop-down menu, select the payroll bank account you created...