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Mastering QuickBooks Online Level 1
Getting Started and Setting Up
- What version of QuickBooks Online is right for you?
- Setting up your company account
- Online banking setup
- Credit card setup
- Importing from QuickBooks desktop editions
- Moving around QuickBooks Online
Getting help
- Differences between QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online
- Work with Lists and Inventory
- Setting up and working with Lists
- Cleaning up Lists: delete, edit, and merge
- Setting up inventory in QuickBooks Online
Everyday Transactions
- Using the Customer and Vendor Lists
- Selling: invoices, sales receipts, invoice payments, credit memos, delayed charges, and customer statements
- Purchasing: bills, bill payments, checks, expenses, credit memos, and tracking accounts payable vs. not tracking accounts payable
- Voiding vs. deleting checks
- Sales Taxes: set up, adjust, and pay
- Banking: bank reconciliation and locating discrepancies
Understand Accounting
- Really understanding your financial statements
- Showing the Profit & Loss Statement by month or as a percentage of income
- Setting up the Chart of Accounts
- Using Cash vs. Accrual accounting
- Entering general journal entries
Payroll
- Setting up employees, deductions and company contributions
- Setting up company payroll preferences
- Tracking and invoicing time
- Processing paychecks
- Making tax deposits
Work with Reports
- Customizing columns: add, reorder, delete, and resize
- Saving report customizations
- Setting up email schedules for reports
Advanced Features
- Setting up users: administrator, normal, reports only and timesheet only
- Assigning access rights and user levels
- Using the Audit Log
- Using classes and locations
- Closing the books
- Exporting to QuickBooks Desktop
- Creating recurring transactions: scheduled and unscheduled
Mastering QuickBooks Online Level 2
Customizing QuickBooks
- Modifying important preferences
- Creating and using custom fields
- Setting up bank rules to make online banking easier
- Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)
Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Lines of credit
- Typical bill payment errors
- Preparing 1099s at year-end
- Employee and owner purchases
- Prepaid expenses
- Vendor deposits
- Petty cash
- Correcting improperly paid bills
- Dealing with bounced checks to vendors
- Voiding prior period checks
Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Finding and fixing typical errors in accounts receivable
- Methods for handling customer deposits
- Writing off bad debts
- Customer under- and over-payments
- Transferring customer credits
- Using QuickBooks Online Payments to accept credit card payments
- Setting up PayPal and using it to receive payments
- Batch printing and emailing of invoices
- Options for sending invoices and sales receipts
- Processing NSF customer payments
- Entering retail sales
Mastering QuickBooks Reporting
- Advanced report customization
- Budgets and forecasts
- Management reports
- Statement of cash flows
- Job costing
Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Issuing employee loans and advances
- Changing payroll preferences
- Deleting paychecks
- Employee and owner reimbursements
Secrets Your Accountant Should Know
- How to work in a bank register
- Voiding prior period checks
- Moving balances between customers and vendors
- What you REALLY need to know to become an advanced user
- Little known power features in all areas of QuickBooks
Advanced Tricks
- Inventory adjustments
- Working with inventory assemblies
- Handling bank reconciliation errors
- Zero-based checks
- Fixing errors in all areas of QuickBooks
Mastering Accounting Basics for QuickBooks Online
Accounting Basics
- Definition of Accounting from a small business perspective
- Explanation of why you need accounting
- Financial statements:what are they?
- What is an account?
- Double entry accounting and how it applies to QuickBooks
- Debits and credits…the essence of accounting
The Accounting Cycle (who does what and when?)
- What is the accounting cycle and why is it important?
- Daily accounting tasks
- Weekly accounting tasks
- Pay period accounting tasks
- Monthly accounting tasks
- Quarterly accounting tasks
- Annual accounting tasks
- Key tasks within each cycle demonstrated in QuickBooks
- Closing the books
- Restricting access to closed periods
Accounting Principles
- Intro to accounting principles…the foundation of accounting
- Reporting principle
- Reliability principle
- Comparability principle
- Cost principle
- Revenue principle
- Matching principle
- Applying the principles
Working with Your Accountant
- Speaking the same language as your accountant!
- Creating a client/accountant agreement
- Methods for getting information to your accountant
- Accountant's Copy Process
- Special reports for your accountant (journal report, general ledger, transaction entry journal, and trial balance)
Accounting Basics in QuickBooks Online
- The balance sheet and profit & loss statement
- Working with account types
- Setting up the chart of accounts
- Management reporting vs. financial reporting
- Working with subaccounts
- Techniques to review account detail
- Understanding debits/credits in common QuickBooks transactions (checks, invoices, payments, deposits, bills, bill payments, and journal entries)
More Accounting
- Using account numbers
- Setting up classes to segment financial statements
- Budgeting and planning in QuickBooks
- Cash vs. accrual accounting
- Understanding and using retained earnings
- Year-end closing entries
- Finding prior year changes
Reviewing Numbers for Accuracy
- Basic review techniques
- Using QuickZoom as an investigative tool
- Reconciling accounts to external documentation
- Verifying numbers on key reports
- Checking balances for accounts receivable, accounts payable, and inventory
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- Basic financial interpretations
- Analyzing business trends
- Interpreting variable expenses
- Understanding and using key financial ratios (current ratio, return on equity, gross profit margin, and net profit margin)
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop Level 1
Getting Started
- Setting up your company
- Moving around QuickBooks efficiently
- Customize your Home Page
- Getting help
Everyday Transactions
- Selling: invoices, sales receipts, payments, deposits, credit memos, statement charges, and customer statements
- Buying: bills, bill payments, checks, bills vs. checks, and credit memos
- Inventory: purchase orders, receiving items, and adjusting inventory
- Sales Taxes: setting up, adjusting, paying, and reporting sales taxes
- Banking: reconciling bank accounts, locating discrepancies, and online banking
Special Transactions
- Giving and receiving refunds
- Voiding vs. deleting a check
- Applying credit memos
Working with Lists
- Special "Window" tricks
- Cleaning up lists (delete, hide, and merge)
- Sorting and customizing lists
- "Collapsing" financial statements
- Showing P&L by month, or as a percent of income
Understanding Accounting
- Really understanding your financial statements
- Setting up the Chart of Accounts
- Changing and fixing the Chart of Accounts
- Cash vs. Accrual accounting
- Using general journal entries
- Creating and using subaccounts
- Using the Company Snapshot feature
Payroll
- Setting up payroll
- Entering year-to-date payroll information
- Setting up employees
- Creating payroll items
- Tracking and invoicing time
- Processing paychecks
- Modifying paychecks
- Making tax deposits
- Preparing tax forms
Working with Reports
- Adding, deleting, resizing, and reordering columns
- Filtering and formatting reports
- Saving reports and creating memorized report groups
Advanced Features
- Using petty cash
- Setting up QuickBooks on a network (multi-user)
- Password protecting QuickBooks
- Updating QuickBooks
- Working with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
- Closing the books
- Finding transactions quickly and other time saving features
- Working with the Accountant's Copy feature
- Protecting your QuickBooks data
Tips & Tricks
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tailoring company preferences
- Creating custom invoices and other forms
- Adding logos and custom fields to forms
Tricky Transactions
- Using online banking
- Handling bounced checks...easily
- Entering customer down payments/deposits
- Creating automatic transactions (memorizing transactions)
- Using credit cards
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop Level 2
Customizing QuickBooks
- Modifying important preferences
- Customizing your home page
- Modifying the Icon Bar
- Creating and using custom fields
- Using account numbers
- Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)
Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Setting up Price Levels
- Sales Orders/backorders
- Batch invoicing
- Invoicing for billable costs
- Complex sales tax situations
- Creating and using estimates
- Progress invoicing
- Finding and fixing typical errors in accounts receivable
- Two methods for handling customer deposits
- Managing collections
- Writing off bad debts
- Customer under- and over-payments
- Transferring customer credits
- Working with multiple accounts receivable accounts
- Entering retail sales
Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Purchasing and accounting for fixed assets
- Entering company loans with the Loan Manager
- Lines of credit
- Typical bill payment errors
- Preparing 1099s at year-end
- Employee and owner purchases
- Prepaid expenses
- Vendor deposits
- Vendor refunds
- Barter transactions
- Voiding prior period checks
- Using the cash flow projection tool
Items & Inventory
- Expenses vs. Items
- Inventory limitations
- Inventory adjustments
- Creating group items
- Working with inventory assemblies
- Units of measure
Advanced Tricks
- When should you start over with a new file?
- The limitations of QuickBooks
- Handling bank reconciliation errors
- Using multiple currencies
- Fixing errors in all areas of QuickBooks
Complete Setup
- Account setup: opening balances, special accounts, and opening balance equity
- Completing setup: completing lists, setting up payroll
- Two methods for entering transaction history
- Checking the setup
Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Correcting the setup of payroll items
- Adding difficult payroll items
- Using payroll effectively for job costing
- Voiding/Reprinting paychecks
- Handling special payroll deductions and payments
- Preparing and adjusting W-2s
- Employee loans
- Setting up and tracking workers' compensation insurance
- Net to Gross paycheck calculations
Mastering QuickBooks Reporting
- Advanced report customization
- Report types in QuickBooks
- Importing and exporting reports
- Using special fields to improve reports
- Troubleshooting reports filters
- Memorizing reports and creating report groups
- Adding reports to the Icon Bar
- Powerful techniques for modifying reports in Excel
- Generating custom summary and transaction reports
- Graphing QuickBooks data in Excel
- Budgets and forecasts
- Combining financial statements
- Extending the QuickBooks database
- Using advanced fields for reports (customer type, custom fields, and more!)
Unlocking the Power of QuickBooks
- Deleting and archiving old transactions in your file
- Remote access (access your company file through the internet)
- Automating backups
- Tricks to make QuickBooks run faster and more efficiently
- Corrupt data files: how & why it happens, and what to do
- Verify and rebuild company files
Importing and Exporting
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks files
- Importing and exporting lists
- Importing and exporting customized forms
- Using reports with multiple company files
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks and other programs
- Working with integrated applications
- Using special Excel import feature
Secrets Your Accountant Should Know
- Common client mistakes and their fixes
- Closing the books
- Getting information to and from your accountant
- Finding changes made to closed periods
- Understanding and using retained earnings
- Discovering the quirks of QuickBooks journal entries
- Using reversing journal entries
- Year-end procedures
- Using the Audit Trail and other reports to find errors
- Cash basis financial statements
- Special reports for your accountant
- What you REALLY need to know to become an advanced user!
- Little known power features in all areas of QuickBooks
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop Payroll
Payroll...Before You Begin
- The top 10 payroll mistakes to avoid
- Know your payroll risks and responsibilities
- Standard forms for new employees
- Contractors vs. employees (when to use each)
Set Up
- Information you need to get started
- Using the Payroll Setup Wizard
- Setting up employees
- Adding compensation types (hourly, salary, bonus, etc.)
- Setting up employee benefits (insurance, reimbursements, etc.)
- Adding retirement benefits like 401(k) plans
- Adding PTO (sick & vacation time)
- Setting up federal taxes (Income tax, FICA, etc.)
- Setting up the right taxes for your state
- Reviewing your payroll set up
- Entering payroll history
- Customizing payroll
- Creating payroll schedules
- Understanding and adding payroll items
- Creating unique and special payroll items
Running Payroll
- Entering employee time
- Running employee productivity reports
- Preparing employee paychecks
- Printing & modifying paychecks
- Printing employee paystubs
- Running payroll reports
- Exporting payroll data to Microsoft Excel
Taxes & Tax Forms
- Making tax deposits
- Paying other payroll liabilities
- Using E-file/E-pay to file forms and make payments electronically
- Correcting & adjusting payroll liabilities
- Preparing & filing your quarterly & annual tax returns (federal and state)
Special Transactions
- Entering "net to gross" paychecks
- Running unscheduled & termination paychecks
- Handling unexpected changes during the year
- Voiding paychecks
- Tracking & paying employee commissions
- Custom liability payments
- Depositing tax refunds
Advanced Transactions
- Handling unique expenses (e.g. employee & employer contributions to insurance)
- Mapping payroll items to get meaningful financial statements
- Job costing payroll
- Tracking employee loans
- Handling wage garnishments
- Paycheck issues
- Tracking payroll by "class"
Mastering Accounting Basics for QuickBooks Desktop
Accounting Basics
- Defining accounting from the small business' perspective
- Why do you need accounting?
- Financial statements: what are they?
- What is an account?
- Double entry accounting and how it applies to QuickBooks
- Debits and Credits: The essence of accounting
Accounting Principles
- Introduction to Accounting Principles
- The Reporting Principle
- The Reliability Principle
- The Comparability Principle
- The Cost Principle
- The Revenue Principle
- The Matching Principle
- Applying the principles
Accounting Basics in QuickBooks
- The Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statement
- Working with account types
- Setting up the Chart of Accounts
- Management reporting vs. financial reporting
- Working with subaccounts
- Techniques to review account detail
- Understanding debits/credits in common QuickBooks transactions
Reviewing Numbers for Accuracy
- Basic review techniques
- Using QuickZoom as an investigative tool
- Reconciling accounts to external documentation
- Verifying numbers on key reports
- Checking Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Inventory balances
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- Basic financial interpretations
- Analyzing business trends
- Interpreting variable expenses
- Understanding and using key financial ratios
The Accounting Cycle
- What is the accounting cycle, and why is it important?
- Daily accounting tasks
- Weekly accounting tasks
- Pay period accounting tasks
- Monthly accounting tasks
- Quarterly accounting tasks
- Annual accounting tasks
- Closing the books
- Restricting access to closed periods
Working with Your Accountant
- Speaking the same language as your accountant!
- Creating a client/accountant agreement
- Methods for getting information to your accountant
- Accountant's Copy Process
- Special reports for your accountant
More Accounting
- Using account numbers
- Setting up classes to segment financial statements
- Budgeting and planning in QuickBooks
- Cash vs. Accrual accounting
- Understanding and using Retained Earnings
- Year-end closing entries
- Finding prior year changes
Valuable Resources Included with the Course
- Glossary of Accounting Terms
- QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts List
- Summary of Account Types (and the financial statements they flow to)
- A Debits and Credits "Cheat Sheet"
- Financial Ratios List (and how they're calculated)
- Sample Tax Calendar
- List of Record-Keeping Requirements
- Periodic Activities Checklist (avoid overlooking important tasks!)
- Year-end Closing Checklist
- Step-by-Step Summary of Exchanging Data with your Accountant
- Help Guide for Creating a Client/Accountant Agreement (and assigning responsibilities)
- Backup Log (to schedule and monitor timely backups)
Mastering Word and Excel for QuickBooks Desktop
Excel: The Basics
- What are spreadsheets and workbooks?
- Moving around in Excel
- Understanding the Excel interface
- Getting Help
- Tips for exporting to QuickBooks
Working with Excel & QuickBooks Together
- Sending reports to a new workbook
- Transferring reports to an existing workbook
- Moving and naming worksheets
- Aligning, deleting, and inserting worksheets
- Changing report headings
- Selecting, moving, merging, and editing cells
- Deleting columns and rows
Formatting in Excel
- Creating the look you want
- Adding borders
- Number styles: Accounting vs. Currency
- Using the Format Painter
- Adding tab colors and comments
- Freezing Panes (column and row heading show while scrolling)
- Understanding date formats
Calculations and Formulas in Excel
- Relative vs. absolute references
- Creating and copying formulas
- Array formulas
- 3-D formulas
- Using the formula Error Checking feature
Summarizing and Analyzing Data in Excel
- How to analyze numbers in Excel
- Using the Count, Average, and Mean functions
- Collapsing Excel reports (to hide and show relevant data)
- Using the Auto-Outline feature
- Filtering reports in Excel
- Grouping and sorting data
- Pivot Tables
- Using the What-If Analysis tool
Real World Applications for Excel
- Creating an amortization schedule
- Building an expense reimbursement form
- Speeding up bank reconciliations
- Creating graphs of QuickBooks data (in Excel!)
- Importing lists from Excel into QuickBooks
- Importing IIF files into QuickBooks
Customizing Excel
- Creating personalized toolbars
- Building your own menus
- Changing the screen layout
- Password protecting Excel files
- Setting the default format
Shortcuts and Saving Time in Excel
- Creating macros to automate Excel steps
- Mouse Shortcuts
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Printing tips and tricks
Word: The Basics
- What are files and templates?
- Moving around in Word
- Understanding the Word interface
- Using different layout views
- Getting Help
Working with Word and QuickBooks Together
- Using the QuickBooks to Word link
- Creating a letter from scratch
- Converting an existing Word document
- Modifying Word letter templates
- Creating invoice cover letters
- Fixing “missing information” errors
Word Techniques
- Working with Word documents
- Understanding document compatibility issues
- Setting the Auto Recover options
- Entering, selecting, dragging, dropping, cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting in Word
- Using the built-in spelling and grammar checkers
Formatting in Word
- Understanding and using the Home tab
- Customizing fonts
- Highlighting fonts
- Using the format painter feature
- Creating and using bulleted and numbered lists
- Setting tabs, tab stops, and indents
- Creating and using styles and style sheets
- Adjusting margins
- Setting page breaks
- Printing word documents
Working with Document Objects in Word
- Adding a company logo to letters
- Re-sizing and re-positioning objects
- Creating watermarks
- Using Word symbols
- Using and modifying clip art and other pictures
- Working with tables
- Importing tables from Excel
- Inserting files
- Adding “Hyperlinks” to documents, web pages, and spreadsheets
Customizing Word
- Creating smart tags to use Word information in other programs
- Creating personalized toolbars
- Building your own menus
- Changing the screen layout
- Password protecting files
- Setting the default format
- Tracking changes in Word
Shortcuts and Saving Time
- Using keyboard shortcuts to find information
- Other keyboard shortcuts
- Auto-correcting Word documents
- Using different languages
- Creating and using Word templates
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Level 1
Getting Started
- Setting up your data files
- Moving around QuickBooks...EFFICIENTLY
Everyday Transactions
- Selling: invoices, sales receipts, payments, deposits, credit memos, statement charges, linking to 3rd party software, and customer statements
- Buying: bills, bill payments, checks, bills vs. checks, and credit memos
- Inventory: purchase orders, receiving items, adjusting inventory
- Sales Taxes: setting up, adjusting, paying, and reporting sales taxes
- Banking: reconciling bank accounts and locating discrepancies
Special Transactions
- Giving and receiving refunds
- Voiding vs. deleting a check
- Applying credit memos
Working with Lists
- Special "Window" tricks
- Cleaning up lists (delete, hide and merge)
- Sorting and customizing lists
- "Collapsing" financial statements
- Preparing P&L by month, or as a percent of income
- Financial Statements
- Really understand the QuickBooks financial statements
- Setting up the Chart of Accounts
- Changing and fixing the Chart of Accounts
- Cash vs. Accrual accounting
- Using general journal entries
- Creating and using subaccounts
- Combining financial statements
Payroll
- Setting up payroll
- Entering year-to-date payroll information
- Setting up employees
- Creating payroll items
- Tracking and invoicing time
- Processing paychecks
- Modifying paychecks
- Making tax deposits
- Preparing tax forms
- Summarizing payroll data in Excel
Working with Reports
- Adding, deleting, resizing, and reordering columns
- Filtering and formatting reports
- Saving reports and creating memorized report groups
Advanced Features
- Password protecting QuickBooks
- Updating QuickBooks
- Working with Microsoft Excel
- Closing the books
- Finding transactions quickly and other time saving features
- Working with the Accountant's Copy feature
- Protecting your QuickBooks data
Tips & Tricks
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tailoring company preferences
- Creating custom invoices and other forms
- Adding logos and custom fields to forms
Tricky Transactions
- Using online banking
- Handling bounced checks...easily
- Entering customer down payments/deposits
- Creating automatic transactions (memorizing transactions)
- Using credit cards
Enterprise Solutions Features
- Assigning the administrator
- Creating roles
- Setting user access levels
- Adding new users
- Working in different user “modes”
- Using inventory management features
- Working with special report features
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Level 1
Getting Started
- Setting up your data files
- Moving around QuickBooks...EFFICIENTLY
Everyday Transactions
- Selling: invoices, sales receipts, payments, deposits, credit memos, statement charges, linking to 3rd party software, and customer statements
- Buying: bills, bill payments, checks, bills vs. checks, and credit memos
- Inventory: purchase orders, receiving items, adjusting inventory
- Sales Taxes: setting up, adjusting, paying, and reporting sales taxes
- Banking: reconciling bank accounts and locating discrepancies
Special Transactions
- Giving and receiving refunds
- Voiding vs. deleting a check
- Applying credit memos
Working with Lists
- Special "Window" tricks
- Cleaning up lists (delete, hide and merge)
- Sorting and customizing lists
- "Collapsing" financial statements
- Preparing P&L by month, or as a percent of income
- Financial Statements
- Really understand the QuickBooks financial statements
- Setting up the Chart of Accounts
- Changing and fixing the Chart of Accounts
- Cash vs. Accrual accounting
- Using general journal entries
- Creating and using subaccounts
- Combining financial statements
Payroll
- Setting up payroll
- Entering year-to-date payroll information
- Setting up employees
- Creating payroll items
- Tracking and invoicing time
- Processing paychecks
- Modifying paychecks
- Making tax deposits
- Preparing tax forms
- Summarizing payroll data in Excel
Working with Reports
- Adding, deleting, resizing, and reordering columns
- Filtering and formatting reports
- Saving reports and creating memorized report groups
Advanced Features
- Password protecting QuickBooks
- Updating QuickBooks
- Working with Microsoft Excel
- Closing the books
- Finding transactions quickly and other time saving features
- Working with the Accountant's Copy feature
- Protecting your QuickBooks data
Tips & Tricks
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tailoring company preferences
- Creating custom invoices and other forms
- Adding logos and custom fields to forms
Tricky Transactions
- Using online banking
- Handling bounced checks...easily
- Entering customer down payments/deposits
- Creating automatic transactions (memorizing transactions)
- Using credit cards
Enterprise Solutions Features
- Assigning the administrator
- Creating roles
- Setting user access levels
- Adding new users
- Working in different user “modes”
- Using inventory management features
- Working with special report features
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Level 2
Customizing QuickBooks
- Modifying important preferences
- Customizing your Home Page
- Modifying the Icon Bar
- Creating and using custom fields
- Using account numbers
- Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)
Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Setting up Price Levels
- Sales Orders/backorders
- Batch invoicing
- Invoicing for billable costs
- Complex sales tax situations
- Creating and using estimates
- Progress invoicing
- Finding and fixing common errors in accounts receivable
- Two methods for handling customer deposits
- Managing collections
- Writing off bad debts
- Customer under- and over-payments
- Transferring customer credits
- Working with multiple accounts receivable accounts
- Entering retail sales
Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Purchasing and accounting for fixed assets
- Entering company loans with the Loan Manager
- Lines of credit
- Typical bill payment errors
- Preparing 1099s at year-end
- Employee and owner purchases
- Prepaid expenses
- Vendor deposits
- Vendor refunds
- Barter transactions
- Voiding prior period checks
- Using the Cash Flow Projection Tool
Items & Inventory
- Expenses vs. Items
- Inventory limitations
- Inventory adjustments
- Creating group items
- Working with inventory assemblies
- Units of measure
Advanced Tricks
- When should you start over with a new file?
- The limitations of QuickBooks
- Handling bank reconciliation errors
- Use multiple currencies
- Fixing errors in all areas of QuickBooks
Complete Setup
- Account setup: opening balances, special accounts, and opening balance equity
- Two methods for entering transaction history
- Checking the setup
Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Correcting the setup of payroll items
- Adding difficult payroll items
- Using payroll effectively for job costing
- Voiding/Reprinting paychecks
- Handling special payroll deductions and payments
- Preparing and adjusting W-2s
- Tracking employee loans
- Setting up and tracking workers compensation insurance
- Net to Gross paycheck calculations
Mastering QuickBooks Reporting
- Advanced report customization
- Report types in QuickBooks
- Importing and exporting reports
- Using special fields to improve reports
- Troubleshooting reports filters
- Memorizing reports and creating report groups
- Adding reports to the Icon Bar
- Powerful techniques for modifying reports in Excel
- Generating custom summary and transaction reports
- Graphing QuickBooks data in Excel
- Budgets and forecasts
- Combining financial statements
- Extending the QuickBooks database
- Using advanced fields for reports (customer type, custom fields, and more!)
Unlocking the Power of QuickBooks
- Deleting and archiving old transactions in your file
- Remote access (accessing your company file through the internet)
- Automating backups
- Tricks to make QuickBooks run faster and more efficiently
- Corrupt data files: how & why it happens, and what to do
- Verify and rebuild company files
Importing and Exporting
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks files
- Importing and exporting lists
- Importing and exporting customized forms
- Using reports with multiple company files
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks and other programs
- Working with integrated applications
- Using special Excel import feature
Secrets Your Accountant Should Know
- Common mistakes and their fixes
- Closing the books
- Getting information to and from your accountant
- Finding changes made to closed periods
- Understanding and using retained earnings
- Discovering quirks of QuickBooks journal entries
- Using reversing journal entries
- Understanding year-end procedures
- Using the Audit Trail and other reports to find errors
- Cash basis financial statements
- Special reports for your accountant
- What you really need to know to become an advanced user!
- Little known power features in all areas of QuickBooks
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop for Construction
Getting Started with QuickBooks
- Creating a new data file
- Setting up customers and jobs
- Accounts: opening balances, special accounts, and opening balance equity
- Completing setup: completing lists and payroll setup
- Two methods for entering transaction history
- Checking the setup
Job Costing
- Understanding items: the core of job cost tracking
- Guidelines for getting job cost information from QuickBooks
- Setting up items for accurate job costing
- Tracking committed costs
- Job costing payroll: wages, benefits, and taxes
- Allocating owner and partner time to jobs
- Running job profitability reports
- Tracking company's gross margin on jobs
- Using the Job Costing Center
- Running job status reports
- Two methods for tracking Work-in-Progress
Estimating and Invoicing
- Estimating jobs in QuickBooks
- Estimating fixed priced jobs
- Memorizing estimates (how and why)
- Progress invoicing against estimates
- Three methods to enter and automate change orders
- Batch invoicing
- Invoicing construction draws
- Using billing rate levels
Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Entering statement charges
- Working with multiple accounts receivable accounts
- Finding and fixing common errors in accounts receivable
- Two methods for handling customer deposits
- Retainage
- Managing collections
- Writing off bad debts
- Customer under- and over-payments
- Transferring customer credits
- Tracking cost and sales of spec homes
Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Vendor deposits
- Preparing 1099s at year-end
- Tracking liability certificates
- Entering employee and owner purchases
- Prepaid expenses
- Vendor refunds
- Barter transactions
- Voiding prior period checks
- Automating purchase orders for jobs
Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Allocating benefits/taxes to jobs
- Job costing salaried employees
- Using payroll effectively for job costing
- Handling special payroll deductions and payments
- Tracking employee loans
- Setting up and tracking workers' compensation insurance
- Allocating owners' cost to jobs when they don't receive a paycheck
Mastering QuickBooks Reporting
- Advanced report customization
- Report types in QuickBooks
- Importing and exporting reports
- Using special fields to improve reports
- Troubleshooting report filters
- Memorizing reports and creating report groups
- Adding reports to the Icon Bar
- Powerful techniques for modifying reports in Excel
- Generating custom summary and transaction reports
- Graphing QuickBooks data in Excel
- Creating budgets and forecasts
- Combining financial statements
- Extending the QuickBooks database
- Using advanced fields for reports (job type, custom fields, and more!)
Reports for Job Cost
- Gross margin reports for open and closed jobs
- Estimate vs. actual reports
- Running unpaid/paid bills reports for jobs
- Job Cost by Vendor reports
- Time tracking reports
- Even more job cost reports!
Customizing QuickBooks
- Modifying important preferences
- Customizing your home page
- Modifying the Icon Bar
- Creating and using custom fields
- Using account numbers
- Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)
Unlocking the Power of QuickBooks
- Deleting and archiving old transactions in your file
- Remote access (accessing your company file through the internet)
- Automating backups
- Tricks to make QuickBooks run faster and more efficiently
- Corrupt data files: how & why it happens, and what to do
- Verify and rebuild company files
Importing and Exporting
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks files
- Importing and exporting lists
- Importing and exporting customized forms
- Creating reports from multiple company files
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks and other programs
- Working with integrated applications
- Using the special Excel import feature
Secrets Your Accountant Should Know
- Common mistakes and their fixes
- Closing the books
- Getting information to and from your accountant
- Finding changes made to closed periods
- Understanding and using retained earnings
- Discovering the quirks of QuickBooks journal entries
- Using reversing journal entries
- Understanding year-end procedures
- Using the Audit Trail and other reports to find errors
- Cash basis financial statements
- Special reports for your accountant
- What you REALLY need to know to become an advanced user!
- Little-known powerful features in all areas of QuickBooks
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop for Nonprofits
The Basics
- Using the nonprofit menu
- Understanding the financial statements of a nonprofit
- The Unified Chart of Accounts (UCOA)
- Nonprofit forms and letters
- Setting up accounts for different types of nonprofits
- Setting up Classes and Programs
- Entering grants
- What's the Form 990?
Tracking Income
- Setting up members and donors
- Recording individual donations
- Recording lump sum donations
- Tracking and receiving grants
- Receiving general contributions
- Making deposits
Tracking Expenses
- Setting up vendors and employees
- Entering and paying bills
- Writing checks
- Using an outside payroll service
- Paying employees
- Paying payroll taxes
- Tracking volunteer time
- Classifying expenses and payroll by program
- Allocating expenses by percentage to programs
Standard Reports for Nonprofits
- Basic Profit & Loss Statement
- Profit & Loss Statement by month and by program
- Budget vs. actual reports
- Year-end financial statements for auditors, directors and accountant (for 990 tax form)
Customizing QuickBooks
- Adding, deleting, resizing, and reordering columns on reports
- Filtering and formatting reports
- Saving reports and creating memorized report groups
- Customizing forms
- Creating and using custom fields
- Exporting reports to Excel
Advanced Budgeting
- Entering and reviewing budgets
- Copying prior years' budgets
- Modifying budgets using Excel
- Importing an Excel budget
- Tracking budgets by program
- Entering budgets by grant
- Preparing budget reports for a Board of Directors
- Generating budget vs. actual reports
Pledges
- Entering pledges
- Reports of outstanding pledges
- Sending reminder letters for overdue pledges
Membership Organizations
- Invoicing for membership organizations
- Setting up members
- Reports of dues past-due
- Sending renewals
In-Kind Contributions
- Understanding In-kind Contributions
- Accounting for In-kind Contributions
Matching Grants
- Setting up Matching Grants
- Recording donations and pledges for Matching Grants
- Reports for Matching Grants
Capital Campaigns
- Creating a capital campaign
- Setting up accounts, classes, and budgets for a capital campaign
- Entering pledges, individual contributions, and lump-sum contributions
- Recording year-end adjustments
- Reports for capital campaigns
Special Events
- Creating a special event
- Setting up accounts, items, and budgets for a special event
- Accounting for sponsorship activities
- Entering ticket sales
- Tracking in-kind contributions, lump-sum deposits, and expenses
- Reports for special events
Direct Mail Pieces (Fundraising Letters)
- Creating fundraising letters
- Creating accounts and items for letters
- Two methods for entering income from letters
- Accounting for expenses
- Reports for fundraising letters
Fiscal Sponsorships
- Creating accounts, items, and customers
- Two methods for entering income
- Accounting for payments
- Reports for fiscal sponsorships
Tracking Donors/Volunteers
- Entering information for donors and volunteers
- Sending letters to donors
- Year-end reports for donors
- Tracking time for volunteers
Houses of Worship
- Running the Profit & Loss Statement by committee
- Creating special accounts and budgets
- Reports for Houses of Worship
Tracking Funds
- Creating classes and accounts for funds
- Entering transactions
- Recording beginning fund balances
- Reviewing fund balances
Advanced Features
- Using QuickBooks on a network (multi-user)
- Password protecting QuickBooks
- Updating QuickBooks
- Protecting your QuickBooks data
Payroll
- Setting up payroll
- Entering employees
- Setting up payroll items
- Tracking and invoicing time
- Processing paychecks
- Modifying paychecks
- Making tax deposits
- Preparing tax forms
Tricky Transactions
- Using online banking
- Handling bounced checks...easily
- Entering customer down payments/deposits
- Setting up automatic transactions (memorizing transactions)
- Using credit cards
Inventory
- Entering purchase orders
- Receiving inventory
- Adjusting inventory quantities
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop for Accountants Level 1
Getting Started
- Setting up your client's data files
- Moving around QuickBooks...EFFICIENTLY
Everyday Client Transactions
- Selling: invoices, sales receipts, payments, deposits, credit memos, statement charges, linking to 3rd party software, and customer statements
- Buying: bills, bill payments, checks, bills vs. checks, and credit memos
- Inventory: purchase orders, receiving items, adjusting inventory
- Sales Taxes: setting up, adjusting, paying, and reporting sales taxes
- Banking: reconciling bank accounts and locating discrepancies
Special Transactions
- Giving and receiving refunds
- Voiding vs. deleting a check
- Applying credit memos
Working with Lists
- Special "Window" tricks
- Cleaning up lists (delete, hide and merge)
- Sorting and customizing lists
- "Collapsing" financial statements
- Preparing P&L by month, or as a percent of income
- Financial Statements
- Understanding QuickBooks financial statements
- Setting up the Chart of Accounts
- Changing and fixing the Chart of Accounts
- Applying Cash vs. Accrual accounting in QuickBooks
- Using general journal entries
- Entering reversing journal entries
- Creating and using subaccounts
- Using the Company Snapshot
Special Features for Accountants & Bookkeepers
- Supporting and understanding the different versions of QuickBooks
- Introduction to the Accountant version of QuickBooks
- Using the toggle feature to simulate your clients' QuickBooks
- QuickBooks journal entries: understand the unique quirks
- Modifying your clients' Chart of Accounts
- Creating customized financial statements using the Intuit Statement Writer
- Combining financial statements
- Using the working trial balance feature
Payroll
- Setting up your client's payroll
- Entering year-to-date payroll information
- Setting up employees
- Creating payroll items
- Tracking and invoicing time
- Processing paychecks
- Modifying paychecks
- Making tax deposits
- Preparing tax forms
- Summarizing payroll data in Excel
Working with Reports
- Adding, deleting, resizing, and reordering columns
- Filtering and formatting reports
- Saving reports and creating memorized report groups
Advanced Features
- Using petty cash
- Setting up your client's multi-user QuickBooks
- Password protecting QuickBooks
- Updating your client's QuickBooks
- Working with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
- Closing the client's books
- Finding transactions quickly and other time saving features
- Working with the Accountant's Copy feature
- Protecting your client's QuickBooks data
Tips & Tricks
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tailoring company preferences
- Creating custom invoices and other forms
- Adding logos and custom fields to forms
Tricky Transactions
- Using online banking
- Handling bounced checks...easily
- Entering customer down payments/deposits
- Setting up automatic transactions (memorizing transactions)
- Using credit cards
Special Features for Accountants & Bookkeepers
- Finding (and stopping) changes to client financial statements
- Using the Employee Organizer
- Running reports from the Employee Organizer
- Using the employee regulations guide
- Multi-user QuickBooks in Enterprise Solutions: Assigning the administrator, creating roles, setting access levels, and adding new users
- Working with the audit trail in Enterprise Solutions
Mastering QuickBooks Desktop for Accountants Level 2
Customizing QuickBooks for Your Client
- Modifying important preferences
- Customizing your client's home page
- Modifying the Icon Bar
- Creating and using custom fields
- Using account numbers
- Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)
Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Setting up Price Levels
- Sales Orders/backorders
- Batch invoicing
- Invoicing for billable costs
- Complex sales tax situations
- Creating and using estimates
- Progress invoicing
- Finding and fixing typical errors in accounts receivable
- Two methods for handling customer deposits
- Managing collections
- Writing off bad debts
- Customer under- and over-payments
- Transferring customer credits
- Working with multiple accounts receivable accounts
- Entering retail sales
Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Purchasing and accounting for fixed assets
- Entering company loans with the Loan Manager
- Lines of credit
- Typical bill payment errors
- Preparing 1099s at year-end
- Employee and owner purchases
- Prepaid expenses
- Vendor deposits
- Vendor refunds
- Barter transactions
- Voiding prior period checks
- Using the cash flow projection tool
Items & Inventory
- Expenses vs. Items
- Inventory limitations
- Inventory adjustments
- Creating group items
- Working with inventory assemblies
- Units of measure
Advanced Tricks
- When should you start over with a new file?
- The limitations of QuickBooks
- Handling bank reconciliation errors
- Use multiple currencies
- Fixing errors in all areas of QuickBooks
Complete Setup
- Account setup: opening balances, special accounts, and opening balance equity
- Completing setup: completing lists, setting up payroll
- Two methods for entering transaction history
- Checking the setup
Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Correcting the setup of payroll items
- Adding difficult payroll items
- Using payroll effectively for job costing
- Voiding/Reprinting paychecks
- Special payroll deductions and payments
- Preparing and adjusting W-2s
- Employee loans
- Setting up and tracking workers compensation insurance
- Net to Gross paycheck calculations
Mastering QuickBooks Reporting
- Advanced report customization
- Report types in QuickBooks
- Importing and exporting reports
- Using special fields to improve reports
- Troubleshooting reports filters
- Memorizing reports and creating report groups
- Adding reports to the Icon Bar
- Powerful techniques for modifying reports in Excel
- Custom summary and transaction reports
- Graphing QuickBooks data in Excel
- Budgets and forecasts
- Combining financial statements
- Extending the QuickBooks database
- Using advanced fields for reports (customer type, custom fields, and more)
Unlocking the Power of QuickBooks
- Deleting and archiving old transactions in your client's file
- Remote access (accessing a company file through the internet)
- Automating backups
- Tricks to make QuickBooks run faster and more efficiently
- Corrupt data files: how, why, and what to do
- Verifying and rebuilding company files
Importing and Exporting
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks files
- Importing and exporting lists
- Importing and exporting customized forms
- Using reports with multiple company files
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks and other programs
- Working with integrated applications
- Using special Excel import feature
Working with Clients
- Common client mistakes and their fixes
- Closing the books
- Getting information to and from your client
- Finding changes made to closed periods
- Understanding and using retained earnings
- Discovering quirks of QuickBooks journal entries
- Using reversing journal entries
- Understanding year-end procedures
- Using the Audit Trail and other reports to find errors
- Cash basis financial statements
- Special reports you'll need as the accountant
- What you REALLY need to know to become an advanced user!
- Little known power features in all areas of QuickBooks
More Features for Accountants
- Correcting common mistakes with undeposited funds
- Changing account types to correct client financial statements
- Using the Client Data Review feature to review a client's file
- Converting your clients from Quicken
- Using the Fixed Asset Manager: Setting up for a new client, adding assets, and calculating depreciation
Mastering QuickBooks Online Payroll
Payroll Setup
- Payroll signup
- Employee setup, including W4, schedule, pay, deductions, payment method, YTD payroll, and company information
- Company setup - taxes
- Payroll settings
Payroll Cycle
- Running payroll
- Payroll reports
- Paying taxes
- Filing tax forms
- Paying non-tax liabilities
- Editing employee information
Advanced Payroll Topics
- Employee loans and advances
- Employee reimbursements
- Deleting paychecks
Mastering QuickBooks Online Advanced Features
Customer User Permissions
- User types
- Setting up new users
Accelerated Invoicing
- Entering multiple invoices
- Editing multiple invoices
- Import invoice setup
- Importing invoices
Smart Reporting (Fathom)
- Sign up and navigation
- Key performance indicators
- Cash flow and profitability
- Creating reports
Mastering QuickBooks Online Advanced Level 1
Get Started and Set Up
- Set up your company account
- Import your company data from Desktop or Excel
- Set up accounts and beginning balances
- Enter historical transactions
- How to get around QuickBooks Online Advanced
- What to look for on transactions
Organize your info
- Set up lists of customers, vendors and accounts
- Discover how to add, edit, merge and delete list entries
- Learn how to read a Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss statement
- Understand which types of accounts appear on each statement
- Organize your Chart of Accounts with subaccounts
- Learn the basics of journal entries
- Set up and use products and services
Everyday Money-In Transactions
- Learn how to get the most from the Customers List
- Understand when to use an invoice versus a sales receipt
- Use undeposited funds to combine multiple customer payments into a single deposit
- Generate statements for customers
- Run sales reports to understand what you've sold and who you’ve sold it to
- Track sales information unique to your business with custom fields
- Customize sales forms so that you always put your best foot forward with customers
- Send estimates to customers and generate invoices from approved estimates
Time-Saving Techniques
- Find transactions quickly with multiple search options
- Set up recurring transactions
- Discover the benefits of QuickBooks Payments
- Use QuickMath and date shortcuts to quickly record transactions and run reports
Sales Tax
- Set up sales tax tracking from scratch
- Understand sales tax options for products/services and customers
- Record a taxable and a non-taxable sale
- Run sales tax reports
- Review and pay sales tax
Everyday Money-Out Transactions
- Learn how to get the most from the Vendor List
- Understand when to use a bill versus a check or expense
- Discover how to record and print checks
- Set up and use credit cards
- Turn on and record customer/project costs
- Enter and use credits from vendors
- Understand when and how to void or delete a transaction
Get the Most from Online Banking
- Download transactions directly from your bank and credit cards
- Explore the online banking center
- Understand when to Add or Match a transaction
- Enter details on downloaded transactions
- Discover when you should exclude a transaction
- Enter personal expenses
- Record transfers
- Learn the best practices to record a credit card payment
Reconcile Bank Accounts
- Discover what a reconciliation really is
- Perform and complete a reconciliation
- Understand what to do if something goes wrong
- Learn how to use account registers
Get the Most from the Mobile App
- Download and install the QuickBooks Online mobile app
- Look up information about customers and vendors from your phone
- Perform online banking tasks from your mobile device
- Record invoices and expenses from your phone or tablet
Work with Reports
- Understand the types of reports: List, Summary and Detail
- Customize columns: add, reorder, delete, and resize
- Save report customizations
- Set up email schedules for reports
- Get the most from Smart Reporting powered by Fathom
Uncover Hidden Benefits
- Set up users and roles
- Assign access rights and user levels or roles
- Use the Audit Log
- Close the books
- Invite your Accountant
Set up and Run Payroll
- Sign up for payroll services
- Set up employees, deductions and company contributions
- Tracking time
- Process paychecks
- Check tax deposits and forms
Set up and Use Inventory
- Understand the accounts and account for inventory
- Set up and track inventory
- Discover how to record inventory purchases and sales
- Correct inventory levels when something goes wrong
Mastering QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Diamond Level 2
Customizing QuickBooks
- Modifying important preferences
- Customizing your Home Page
- Modifying the Icon Bar
- Creating and using custom fields
- Using account numbers
- Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)
Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Setting up Price Levels
- Sales Orders/backorders
- Batch invoicing
- Invoicing for billable costs
- Complex sales tax situations
- Creating and using estimates
- Progress invoicing
- Finding and fixing common errors in accounts receivable
- Two methods for handling customer deposits
- Managing collections
- Writing off bad debts
- Customer under- and over-payments
- Transferring customer credits
- Working with multiple accounts receivable accounts
- Entering retail sales
Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Purchasing and accounting for fixed assets
- Entering company loans with the Loan Manager
- Lines of credit
- Typical bill payment errors
- Preparing 1099s at year-end
- Employee and owner purchases
- Prepaid expenses
- Vendor deposits
- Vendor refunds
- Barter transactions
- Voiding prior period checks
- Using the Cash Flow Projection Tool
Items & Inventory
- Expenses vs. Items
- Inventory limitations
- Inventory adjustments
- Creating group items
- Working with inventory assemblies
- Units of measure
Advanced Tricks
- When should you start over with a new file?
- The limitations of QuickBooks
- Handling bank reconciliation errors
- Use multiple currencies
- Fixing errors in all areas of QuickBooks
Complete Setup
- Account setup: opening balances, special accounts, and opening balance equity
- Two methods for entering transaction history
- Checking the setup
Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds
- Correcting the setup of payroll items
- Adding difficult payroll items
- Using payroll effectively for job costing
- Voiding/Reprinting paychecks
- Handling special payroll deductions and payments
- Preparing and adjusting W-2s
- Tracking employee loans
- Setting up and tracking workers compensation insurance
- Net to Gross paycheck calculations
Mastering QuickBooks Reporting
- Advanced report customization
- Report types in QuickBooks
- Importing and exporting reports
- Using special fields to improve reports
- Troubleshooting reports filters
- Memorizing reports and creating report groups
- Adding reports to the Icon Bar
- Powerful techniques for modifying reports in Excel
- Generating custom summary and transaction reports
- Graphing QuickBooks data in Excel
- Budgets and forecasts
- Combining financial statements
- Extending the QuickBooks database
- Using advanced fields for reports (customer type, custom fields, and more!)
Unlocking the Power of QuickBooks
- Deleting and archiving old transactions in your file
- Remote access (accessing your company file through the internet)
- Automating backups
- Tricks to make QuickBooks run faster and more efficiently
- Corrupt data files: how & why it happens, and what to do
- Verify and rebuild company files
Importing and Exporting
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks files
- Importing and exporting lists
- Importing and exporting customized forms
- Using reports with multiple company files
- Exchanging data between QuickBooks and other programs
- Working with integrated applications
- Using special Excel import feature
Secrets Your Accountant Should Know
- Common mistakes and their fixes
- Closing the books
- Getting information to and from your accountant
- Finding changes made to closed periods
- Understanding and using retained earnings
- Discovering quirks of QuickBooks journal entries
- Using reversing journal entries
- Understanding year-end procedures
- Using the Audit Trail and other reports to find errors
- Cash basis financial statements
- Special reports for your accountant
- What you really need to know to become an advanced user!
- Little known power features in all areas of QuickBooks
Mastering QuickBooks Online Advanced Level 2
Setup Tips
- Start a new company or start over with an existing account
- Import accounts, customers, vendors and products & services
- Enter opening balances for customers, vendors and accounts
- Set up online banking and record your transaction history
Customize QuickBooks
- Modify important account settings
- Use classes and locations to divide your company's info
- Create and use custom fields
Items & Inventory
- Set up and use bundles
- Track and build assembled inventory
- Record the purchase of non-inventory products and services
Sales Transactions, Tricks and Workarounds
- Set up Price Rules
- Invoice for billable costs
- Find and fix typical errors in accounts receivable
- Handle customer deposits
- Write off bad debts
- Deal with Customer under- and over-payments
- Transfer customer credits
- Enter retail sales
- Record a bounced check from a customer
Purchase Transactions, Tricks and Workarounds
- Purchase and account for fixed assets
- Enter loans and loan payments
- Set up and maintain lines of credit
- Correct typical bill payment errors
- Prepare 1099s
- Record employee and owner purchases
- Enter and distribute prepaid expenses
- Record and use deposits given to vendors
- Set up and maintain a petty cash account
- Record refunds from vendors
- Void checks from prior years
Project and Job Costing
- Set up and use projects
- Account for business owner's time
- Track estimated vs. actual costs
- Create budgets for projects
QuickBooks Online Accountant Features
- Journal entry rules
- Reverse journal entries
- Set up Closing entries
- Undo reconciliations
- Use the client dashboard to check up on your clients
- Discover how to quickly reclassify transactions
Other Tips & Tricks
- Set up and use multicurrency
- Remove all billable time and costs
- Purge a company's data
- Export data to Excel or Google Sheets
Mastering QuickBooks Online Advanced for Construction
Setup Tips
- Start a new company or start over with an existing account
- Import accounts, customers, vendors and products & services
- Enter opening balances for customers, vendors and accounts
- Set up online banking and record your transaction history
Customize QuickBooks
- Modify important account settings
- Use classes and locations to divide your company's info
- Create and use custom fields
Project and Job Costing
- Set up and use projects
- Account for business owner’s time
- Track estimated vs. actual costs
- Use work in progress to track work over time
- Discover methods to record committed costs
Estimates
- Record and send estimates for fixed price jobs
- Use estimates to create invoices
- Track how much of an estimate has been invoiced
- Set up recurring estimates for common quotes
- Record change orders for a job
- Discover how to set up estimates for draws
Sales Transactions, Tricks and Workarounds
- Use bundles to group common services and products
- Handle customer deposits
- Invoice for billable costs
- Write off bad debts
- Record a bounced check from a customer
- Find and fix typical errors in accounts receivable
- Track retainage withheld and then charge for retainage
- Deal with Customer under- and over-payments
- Transfer customer credits
- Find and fix common problems with undeposited funds
Purchase Transactions, Tricks and Workarounds
- Purchase and account for fixed assets
- Enter loans and loan payments
- Set up and maintain lines of credit
- Correct typical bill payment errors
- Prepare 1099s
- Record employee and owner purchases
- Enter and distribute prepaid expenses
- Record and use deposits given to vendors
- Set up and maintain a petty cash account
- Record refunds from vendors
- Void checks from prior years
QuickBooks Online Accountant Features
- Journal entry rules
- Reverse journal entries
- Set up Closing entries
- Undo reconciliations
- Use the client dashboard to check up on your clients
- Discover how to quickly reclassify transactions
Spec Homes and Office Procedures
- Establish roles and responsibilities for an office
- Design systems for the work your office does
- Set up and record work in progress on a spec home
- Record the sale of a spec home
- Enter closing costs and loan information on a spec home
Other Tips & Tricks
- Set up and use multicurrency
- Remove all billable time and costs
- Purge a company's data
- Export data to Excel or Google Sheets
Mastering QuickBooks Online Payroll
Payroll Setup
- Discover the difference between the payroll subscriptions
- Learn what to have on hand when setting up payroll
- Set up employees, pay rates, deductions and year-to-date payroll
- Enter company information and set up taxes
Payroll Tasks
- Track time with weekly timesheets
- Discover how to track time for customers and projects
- Learn how to run time reports
- Pay employees and print checks or paystubs
- Run liability reports and pay liabilities
- Set up and record employee loans/advances
Mastering QuickBooks Online Advanced Exclusive Features
Users & Roles
- Learn about the different types of users and roles
- Set up a new role and apply it to a user
- Discover how to edit and delete a role or user
Workflows & Tasks
- Understand how workflows and tasks automates your operations
- Set up an approval process for invoices
- Add a reminder to record your bank deposits
- Get paid faster and avoid penalties with automated reminders
- Ensure every invoice is sent with reminders or automated emails
- Automatically notify customers anytime you receive their payment
- Discover how to make QuickBooks add notes to overdue invoices
- Learn how to change or delete workflows
- Delegate tasks to your team with tasks
Custom Fields
- Understand how custom fields can help you track your data
- Set up a custom field for information about your customers
- Add a custom field for vendor-related information
- Track data on transactions with custom fields
- Run reports to get the information from your custom fields
Batch Transactions
- Learn how to save time with batch transactions
- Record and send multiple invoices from a single window
- Discover how to delete multiple invoices at the same time
- Enter multiple deposits from a single window
- Paste information from a spreadsheet directly into QuickBooks
Reports
- Gain insight into your business with smart reporting by Fathom
- Use the KPI Dashboard to gather information into a single location
- Track the profitability of your business with the profitability graph
- Monitor your cash flow with the cash flow graph
- Use Fathom to automate your reporting
Company Backups and Importing
- Backup your company and restore it to a previous point in history
- Discover how to import budgets from a csv file
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