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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)

Generating a sales by customer report

The sales by customer report will give a business owner an insight into who their best customers are. In addition, you will gain an insight into customers who seldom make purchases, which can help you when creating a marketing campaign to increase customer sales. The sales by customer summary report includes a list of your customers and the total amount sold during the time period specified. We will show you how to customize and generate this report next.

Follow these steps to customize and generate a sales by customer report:

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

  1. Scroll down to the sales and customer section, and select the Sales by Customer Summary report as indicated in the following screenshot:

Similar to the A/R aging report, the sales by customer report also has a sales by...