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tsmith41094
Level 1

External bank transfers

I have 2 separate companies in QuickBooks and need to transfer money from one to the other (description below).  What is the proper procedure to move funds from one account over to the other?

 

I tried going the deposit route on the receiving company end but it wants me to record income received from customers first.  I'm not sure if there is a way to show a direct deposit of funds without it being recorded as a sale. 

 

Description: Real estate investment fund.  Parent LLC (fund account) holds the investment dollars.  Separate LLC (investment account) will own the properties (legal purposes).  When we buy a property, we move money from the fund account to the investment account to make the purchase. 

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BigRedConsulting
Community Champion

External bank transfers

If you're transferring money from one company to another, tracked in two different company files in QuickBooks, then it sounds like you're reducing some sort of equity in one company and increasing it in another.  In this case, use an appropriate Equity account in each company to track the money.

tsmith41094
Level 1

External bank transfers

Makes sense.  I am still trying to figure out the correct procedure to input the incoming cash received from the other company.  I looked at the "Received Payments" option but don't know if that's the right approach (since it deals with customer pmts).  Don't know if there is a way to manually input the increase in the bank balance or not.

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