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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)

Editing banking transactions

When you first start adding banking transactions to QuickBooks, you will need to review each transaction to ensure it has a proper payee (vendor) and account category assigned to it. As you begin to repeat transactions, QuickBooks will remember how a transaction was recorded previously, and it will automatically assign the payee (vendor) and account category for you.

Follow these steps to edit banking transactions in the banking center:

  1.  From the left menu bar, select Banking, as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. Click on the For Review tab, as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. Click anywhere within the transaction you want to edit, as indicated in the following screenshot:

You will find the following information in the edit banking transaction window: 

  • Vendor/Payee: For withdrawals, select the payee (vendor...