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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)

Issuing credit memos and refunds to customers

There may be times when a customer will return merchandise, or you will need to refund a customer due to an issue with the services you have provided. When that happens, you can create a credit memo in QuickBooks that can be applied to a future invoice, or you can refund the customer their money instead. 

Follow these steps to create a credit memo in QuickBooks Online:

  1. Click on the Quick Create menu and select Credit Memo below Customers, as indicated in the following screenshot:

2. Complete the key fields indicated here for the credit memo:

The following are brief descriptions of the key fields to complete for a credit memo:

  • Customer: From the drop-down menu, select the customer you need to refund.
  • Email: This field will automatically populate with the email address you have on file. If you don't have an email...