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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
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25
Index

Migrating to QuickBooks Online

QBCU
1.1.3

Whether you are currently using another form of accounting software or spreadsheets to manage the books for your business, you will need to gather a few key documents and information to migrate over to QuickBooks Online (QBO), a list of which we gave you at the start of the previous chapter. In addition, the date on which you decide to start implementing QuickBooks will also determine what information is required for a smooth migration. Providing all of the information required will ensure that QuickBooks is properly set up prior to you using it to track your business income and expenses. Otherwise, you could encounter inaccurate and unreliable financial statements, which will make it hard to know your business’ overall health and make filing taxes difficult.

In this chapter, we will discuss questions you need to be prepared to answer before conversion regarding how you will run your business. Then, we will show you...