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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
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25
Index

Managing customer lists in QuickBooks Online

A customer is anyone that you sell products or services to. A customer can be an individual or a business.

Some of the information QuickBooks Online allows you to keep track of in relation to customers includes contact information, such as their telephone number and email address, payment terms, invoicing, and payment history. You can enter customer information manually or import it from an Excel spreadsheet. If you need to make changes to the contact information for a customer, you can do so easily. If you stop doing business with a customer, you can make customers inactive so that they no longer appear in the customer listing. You can also merge customers if you have duplicates. In this section, we will show you how each of these works, beginning with manually adding customers.

Manually adding customers in QuickBooks Online

In order to add new customers to QuickBooks Online (QBO), you need to have the basic contact details...