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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have provided you with information about four key reports that will help you to control your business expenses and stay on top of payments to your vendors. Our goal was to introduce you to an A/P aging report, an unpaid bills report, an expenses by vendor report, and a bill payments report. We have accomplished this goal by providing step-by-step instructions on how to customize and generate each of these reports. Now, you can stay on top of your vendor expenses by generating an A/P aging report, an unpaid bills report, an expenses by vendor report, and a bill payments report. In the next chapter, we will show you how to set up and manage your employees and contractors.