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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 Downloaded Bank and Credit Card Transactions

In Chapter 4, Customizing QuickBooks for your Business, we showed you how to connect bank and credit card accounts to QuickBooks Online (QBO), to reduce the amount of time you spend manually entering data. In this chapter, we will show you how to manage bank and credit card transactions that have been downloaded to QuickBooks. When bank and credit card transactions are downloaded, they are organized in the banking center. Before these transactions can be recorded in QuickBooks, you must review them, with respect to matching them with transactions that have already been entered into QuickBooks, adding payee or category information, and providing any additional details, to help identify each transaction. We will also show you how bank rules can help to reduce the number of transactions requiring manual review. Last, but not least...