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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)

Managing vendors in QuickBooks Online

A vendor is an individual or a business that you pay. Vendors can be 1099 contractors, a utility company, or a business you purchase products from. Similar to customers, you can keep track of all vendor information such as company address, telephone number, email address, and federal tax ID number for 1099 reporting. 1099 reporting is required for contractors who you have paid $600 or more to within a calendar year. In this section, we will show you how to add new vendors, edit existing vendors, and inactivate vendors in QuickBooks.

Manually adding vendors in QuickBooks Online

To add new vendors to QBO, you need to have each vendor's contact details. This includes a business telephone...