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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

Summary

All of the objectives for this chapter have been met. Let's recap: we have shown you how to customize and generate four key reports that will give you an insight into your customers and sales. The four reports covered are accounts receivable (A/R) aging reports, which provide you with the number of days for which customer invoices remain unpaid, open invoices reports, which provide you with all unpaid customer invoices, sales by customer summary reports, which provide you with key sales data for each of your customers, and sales by product/service reports, which give you an insight into which products and services are your top sellers. These reports are important in assisting you with staying on top of unpaid customer invoices so that you can get paid faster. It is much easier to maintain a positive cash flow if payments are received on time.

In the next chapter, we will show you how to customize and generate key reports that will give you an insight into your vendors and...