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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)

Giving your accountant access to your data

If you have an accountant or tax preparer to whom you need to give access to your data, you can create a secure user ID and password for them. All you need to do is request their email address so that you can send them an invitation to access your data. 

Follow these steps to invite an accountant to access your QuickBooks data:

  1. Click on the gear icon and select Manage Users, in the Your Company info column, as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. On the Manage users page, click on Accounting firms, as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. Click on the Invite button, as indicated in the following screenshot, to invite your accountant to access your QuickBooks data:

  1. Enter the name and email address of your accountant, as indicated in the following screenshot:

Once you have entered your accountant...