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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)

Understanding bank rules

Bank rules are a list of conditions that must be met in order for QuickBooks to automatically assign a payee, account (category), class, and a location to download banking transactions. Bank rules will apply only to bank or credit card transactions in the For Review tab of the banking center. Since most businesses have the same transactions that take place month after month, using bank rules can save you the time you would have spent reviewing transactions in the banking center, before they are recorded in QuickBooks.

Follow these steps to create a bank rule:

  1. Click on the Banking tab, located on the left menu bar, as indicated in the following screenshot:

2. Click on the Rules tab, as indicated in the following screenshot:

3. Click on the New rule button, as indicated in the following screenshot:

4. The following screen will be...