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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

In this chapter, we have provided you with a detailed look at the features that are only available in the top-tier QBO plan, QBO Advanced. The topics we covered included accessing the QBO test drive, using customized fields on forms, setting custom user permissions to control what areas of QuickBooks you give other users access to, how to use workflow automation to streamline deadline-driven tasks, importing invoices and budgets to save time, utilizing batch-entry transactions to create invoices, what's included in Priority Circle membership, the options for backing up your QBO data, how the performance center and custom charts work, and an overview of the Fathom reporting app. Now that you have a better understanding of what's included in QBO Advanced, it will help you to determine whether it is the right subscription for your business.

In the next chapter, we will show you how to create your company file. This will include creating a QBO account, navigating in QBO...