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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

Generating a sales by customer report

The sales by customer report will give a business owner an insight into who their best customers are. In addition, you will gain an insight into customers who seldom make purchases, which can help you when creating a marketing campaign to increase customer sales. The sales by customer summary report includes a list of your customers and the total amount sold during the time period specified. We will show you how to customize and generate this report next.

Follow these steps to customize and generate a sales by customer report:

  1. Navigate to Reports in the left menu bar, as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. Scroll down to the sales and customer section, and select the Sales by Customer Summary option, as indicated in the following screenshot:

Similar to the A/R aging report, the sales by customer report also has a sales by customer detail report. The primary difference between the two reports is that the detail report will display...