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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)

Accounts receivable aging report

The accounts receivable aging report, also referred to as the A/R aging report, categorizes unpaid customer invoices into groups, based on the number of days they are past due. In general, there are five main categories (current, 1-30 days, 31-60 days, 61-90 days, and 91 and over). QuickBooks calculates the number of days they are past due, based on the invoice date. Business owners should review this report on a weekly basis and use it to follow up on invoices that are past due.

Observe the following steps to generate A/R aging report:

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

  1. Scroll down to the Who owes you section, and select Accounts receivable aging summary, as indicated in the following screenshot:

Notice there is an Accounts receivable aging summary and an Accounts receivable aging detail...