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Mastering QuickBooks 2021 - Second Edition

By : Crystalynn Shelton
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Mastering QuickBooks 2021 - Second Edition

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 independently. This latest edition of Mastering QuickBooks takes you through the range of new features and updates available in QuickBooks Online (QBO). Creating multilingual invoices, tracking mileage, working with a cash flow dashboard that helps you with cash forecasting and planning reports, and uploading a batch of bills and checks are just a few of the new features covered in this edition. As you progress, you’ll learn how to manage sales tax, including how to set up, collect, track, pay, and report sales tax payments. Dedicated sections will also take you through new content focused on the latest features in the QBO line-up, while also showing you the different types of businesses that can benefit from QBO Advanced. In addition to this, you’ll explore how to export reports to Google Sheets, use the custom chart builder, import budgets, perform smart reporting with Fathom, and much more. By the end of this QuickBooks book, you'll be well-versed with the features of QuickBooks and have the confidence to manage all your bookkeeping tasks with ease.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Your Company File
8
Section 2: Recording Transactions in QuickBooks Online
13
Section 3: Generating Reports in QuickBooks Online
18
Section 4: Managing Employees and Contractors
21
Section 5: Closing the Books and Handling Special Transactions

Exporting reports to PDF

If you need to share reports with your accountant, members of your board of directors, or a financial institution, exporting the reports to a PDF file is a great option. The first five steps in exporting reports to PDF are identical to the first five steps covered in exporting reports to Excel (in the previous section). Once you have completed the first five steps, perform the following steps to export reports to PDF.

Follow these steps to export reports in PDF format:

  1. Click on Export to PDF as indicated here:

  1. The PDF report will be displayed on your screen, as indicated here:

You can save the report to your computer by clicking on the arrow pointing down in the upper-right corner or you can print a hard copy of the report by clicking on the print button next to the arrow, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

That wraps up three of the four primary ways you can export your data out of QuickBooks so that you can share it with your business stakeholders...