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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

Converting from another accounting software or Excel to QBO

There are four primary steps for converting from another accounting software or an Excel spreadsheet into QBO:

  1. Complete the initial company file setup.
  2. Import all of your list information for customers, vendors, and products and services. Refer to the Importing Data into QuickBooks Online section below for detailed instructions.
  3. Import your chart of accounts list, or update the default listing in QuickBooks to match your current list.
  4. Verify the accuracy of the data that has been converted.

In Chapter 3, Company File Setup, we covered in detail how to complete the initial company file setup.

In this chapter, we will cover the other two options you have for entering data into QuickBooks: recording details of historical data, and recording a summary journal entry of historical data. We will look at the correct order in which to enter historical transactions, and how to verify the accuracy...