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Mastering QuickBooks 2022 - Third Edition

By : Crystalynn Shelton
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Mastering QuickBooks 2022 - Third Edition

By: Crystalynn Shelton

Overview of this book

Whether you have bookkeeping experience or not, handling the financial side of your growing business requires expertise. With Mastering QuickBooks® 2022, Third Edition, you’ll learn how to use QuickBooks® to build the perfect budget, simplify tax return preparation, manage inventory, track job costs, generate income statements and financial reports, and perform all accounting-related tasks with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll be guided by an experienced Certified Public Accountant and Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor – from setup to core features and beyond. This new edition has every chapter revised to cover a range of new features and updates available, including smart invoicing and cash flow projections. You'll learn how to create multilingual invoices, track mileage, work with a cash flow dashboard that helps you with cash forecasting and planning reports, and upload batches of bills and checks. This book will also teach you how to manage sales tax, including how to set up, collect, track, pay, and report sales tax payments. In addition to this, you’ll explore how to export reports to Google Sheets, use the custom chart builder, import budgets, and perform smart reporting. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with QuickBooks and have the confidence to manage all your bookkeeping tasks with ease.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
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
24
Other Books You May Enjoy
25
Index

Using online backup and restore

Similar to QuickBooks Desktop products, you can save a backup copy of your QBO data with your QBO Advanced subscription. This feature gives your accountant or administrative personnel the ability to continuously back up data and then restore it to a point in time as needed. Online backup and restore captures transaction data, list data, and other elements such as attachments, company information, exchange rates, and preferences. However, it does not record things such as custom reports, recurring transactions, and bank feeds.

You can access the backup tool from the gear icon. After clicking on the gear icon, select Backup Company, listed below the TOOLS column.

Here is a brief description of the three types of backups available:

  • Full backup: This type of backup saves everything in the chart of accounts.
  • Incremental backup: This backup only saves changes made since the last backup was made.
  • Complete backup: This backup...