Manual Entries / Journal Entries

Just to clarify your question, do you need to import Journal Entries into QB Online or else?

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You can open the Expense transaction and check the Transaction Journal to check the affected accounts. It displays the information for the current transaction you open including the accounts affected by the assembly. The entries displayed on the report determine the posting of the transaction for auditing and report purposes.

You should be able to create a journal entry (JE) in QuickBooks Online. This feature is located under the Other column to create customer, vendor transactions. Here's how: 

1. Select + New.
2. Select Journal entry.
3. On the first line, select an account from the Account field. Depending on if you need to debit or credit the account, enter the amount in the correct column.
4. On the next line, select the other account you're moving money to or from. Depending on if you entered a debit or credit on the first line, enter the same amount in the opposite column.
5. Check the amounts - you should have the same amount in the Credit column on one line and the Debit column on the other. This means the accounts are in balance.
6. Enter information in the memo section so you know why you made the journal entry.
7. Select Save and new or Save and close.

You can also void or delete the expense entries to remove duplicates.

Here are a few articles that may be able to help you in the future for your business: 

• Create a journal entry

• Reverse or delete a journal entry

• Run reports in QuickBooks Online 

• Help articles for QBO

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I'm not sure if I should just pick up the journal entries from this point forward, or if I need the prior entries. I want to have all of the entries in the Journal, if possible. I want to know if I could get all of the existing data to the Journal by some means.

Thanks for helping me out.

This is great, going forward. It is what I found out yesterday. I'm hoping to get the data that I've already entered by the manual expense entries into the Journal. How may I accomplish this? And, is it necessary to do so, or just start Journaling from this point forward.

Thank you.

@PrattJPP 

Bear in mind, you will need an importer tool to import JE in bulk.

https://transactionpro.grsm.io/qbo

I see... 

I think I'm misstating the issue. I have a new business that started in May of this year. I entered all expenses, since then, into QuickBooks. But, I did not enter them in via Journal Entry. I've learned that's not the proper way to enter transactions. So, I am wondering if I need to log all of those transactions in the Journal manually, or will QuickBooks pull that data by some function. Also, whether I need to have journal entries for the previous days, back to May, or should I just go forth and do better.

Thanks again for the help and quick replies. Truly appreciated.

Hi, PrattJPP. 

If you want to keep the previous transactions as expenses, you can go to that one and if you want to keep the previous transactions in Journal entries, you can follow my previous answer. 

You might find this article helpful: How to create a journal entry?

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