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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)

Migrating to QuickBooks Online

Whether you are currently using another form of accounting software or spreadsheets to manage the books for your business, you will need to gather a few key documents and information to migrate over to QuickBooks Online (QBO). In addition, the date on which you decide to implement QuickBooks will also determine what information is required for a smooth migration. Providing all of the information required will ensure that QuickBooks is properly set up prior to you using it to track your business income and expenses. Otherwise, you could encounter inaccurate and unreliable financial statements, which will make it difficult to know your business' overall health and make filing taxes difficult.

In this chapter, we will show you how to convert from another form of accounting software or Excel to QuickBooks Online. If you are currently using QuickBooks...