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Built-in Accounting Tools and Controls
The write-up, reporting, and payroll tools in Accountant Edition will help you complete accurate, custom-formatted financial statements in minutes.
Prepare and customize financial statements
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Save time preparing and customizing financial statements with the built-in Financial Statement Designer. An easy-to-use tool that works like a spreadsheet.
- Group accounts any way you want and add blank rows for spacing.
- Customize any of the 20-plus financial statements layouts including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and financial ratios reports
- Alerts let you know if there's a new or deleted account missing from existing statements.
- Customize title pages, notes to financial statements, and compilation letters using the integrated document editor.
- Re-use customized financial statements for clients with the same Chart of Accounts.
Financial Statement Designer
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Review and adjust account balances
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Use the Working Trial Balance tool to easily review and adjust account balances all in one place.
- View beginning balances, current period transactions, current period adjustments, and ending balances for any time frame.
- Enter workpaper references.
- Make adjusting entries and print an adjusted trial balance.
- QuickZoom to source transactions to easily investigate errors.
Working Trial Balance
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Calculate depreciation on fixed assets
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Automatically calculate depreciation on fixed assets with the integrated Fixed Asset
Manager.
- Enter Fixed Assets
- Record asset purchases and sales or import your clients' Fixed Asset List.
- Calculate Depreciation
- Compute depreciation for up to six asset bases, including federal, state, book, and AMT.
- Compute Section 179 expense and luxury auto limitations.
- Project depreciation for the life of each of the assets.
- Automatically create journal entries.
- Receive IRS tax updates throughout the year.
- Print Reports
- Print 20 reports including asset schedules and property tax listings.
Fixed Asset Manager
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Integrated accounting modules
Accountant Edition contains General Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable modules.
- Quickly reconcile client bank statements.
- Customize the layout of the reconciliation screen for quicker data entry.
- Produce summary and detailed aging reports.
- Track sales tax liabilities and complete sales tax forms.
- Easily pay bills, print checks, and track expense.
Prepare for tax returns
Export account balances to Lacerte® or ProSeries® tax software, and reduce double-data entry errors. (sold separately)
NEW! Lacertes' SmartMap makes data transfer from QB fast and easy. Import your trial balance data directly from QuickBooks Accountant Edition into Lacerte.- Automatically assigns tax fields to your trial balance accounts.
- Balances are imported into a "safe place" in Lacerte so corrections can be made prior to posting balances to the return
- Any new assignments you make are saved so you're building your own custom database.
- Complete one client and almost all your other clients are done
Enter client source data quickly and easily
Make short work of entering your clients' source data with registers and journals designed for rapid data entry.
- Enter checks and deposits "heads-down" with the Registers entry window.
- Automatically repeat transaction dates, increment check numbers, and "save-and-advance" with the Enter or Return key.
- Start typing the first few characters of a name or account—the rest fills in automatically.
- Add accounts, vendors, or employees on the fly.
- Set up recurring journal entries. Reverse entries with one click.
- Search for specific transactions by date, dollar amount, and more. You can even search by multiple fields to find exactly the entry you want.
Complete and professional payroll for accountants
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(sold separately)
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Enhanced Payroll for Accountants helps you provide a more complete, professional and profitable payroll service to clients, so they can confidently focus on running their business.
- Perform live or after-the-fact client payroll.
- Automatically download the latest federal and state tax tables and forms, and track worker's compensation.
- Give clients professional looking payroll reports that print with just a few keystrokes.
- Runs right from your existing QuickBooks software, so there's nothing new to learn and less data to re-key.
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