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Mastering QuickBooks 2020

By : Crystalynn Shelton
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Mastering QuickBooks 2020

By: Crystalynn Shelton

Overview of this book

Intuit QuickBooks is an accounting software package that helps small business owners to manage all their bookkeeping tasks. Its complete range of accounting capabilities, such as tracking income and expenses, managing payroll, simplifying taxes, and accepting online payments, makes QuickBooks software a must-have for business owners and aspiring bookkeepers. This book is a handy guide to using QuickBooks Online to manage accounting tasks and drawing business insights by generating reports easily. Using a fictitious company, the book demonstrates how to create a QuickBooks Online account; customize key settings for a business; manage customers, vendors, and products and services; generate reports; and close the books at the end of the period. QuickBooks records your debits and credits, so you don't need to learn accounting. However, you will find out what happens under the hood and understand how your financial statements are impacted by what you do in QuickBooks. You'll also discover tips, shortcuts, and best practices that will help you save time and become a QuickBooks pro. By the end of this book, you'll have become well-versed with the features of QuickBooks and be able to set up your business and manage all bookkeeping tasks with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Generating balance sheet reports

A balance sheet report summarizes the assets, liabilities, and owner's equity for a business at any point in time. This report allows you to assess the liquidity of a business, which is important to potential investors and creditors. As with most reports, you can customize the balance sheet report to meet your business needs. We will show you how to generate the report and customize it in this section.

Follow these steps to customize and generate a balance sheet report:

  1. Navigate to Reports in the left menu bar, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Scroll down to the business overview section and select Balance Sheet, as shown in the following screenshot:

As you can see, there are several different types of balance sheet reports you can run in QuickBooks Online. The balance sheet comparison report, balance sheet detail report, and the...