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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

Importing invoices and budgets into QuickBooks Online

In Chapter 6, Managing Customers, Vendors, Products, and Services, we covered importing customers, vendors, and products and services into QuickBooks. In this section, we will show you how to import invoices into QuickBooks. Importing your data into QuickBooks can save you a lot of time that would have been spent manually entering this information into QuickBooks. In addition to saving time, importing data will ensure more accuracy and consistency than manual data entry. If you use budgets in your business, you may want to consider importing your budget data into QuickBooks. Importing budgets is only available in QBO Advanced. 

Follow these steps to import invoices into QuickBooks:

  1. From the gear icon, select Import data as indicated in the following screenshot:

  1. The Import Data screen will display; select Invoices:

  1. The following window displays:

There are three steps that must be completed to import invoices...