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QuickBooks
Advance Accounting & Payroll Training
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Setting up your company file
Step 1: Choose a start date
Step 2: Gather information
Step 3: Create your company file
Step 4: Set up company lists
Step 5: Enter opening balances
Step 6: Set up payroll (optional)
Step 7: Enter optional adjustments
Step 8: Customize preferences
2 Entering historical transactions
Historical transactions overview,
Entering sales and accounts receivable (A/R)
transactions,
Entering accounts payable (A/P) transactions,
Entering payroll transactions,
Entering bank and other transactions,
Changing your start date,
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3 Lists
Types of lists,
Editing and deleting list items,
Speeding up data entry with lists,
Adding customized fields to lists
Keeping your lists organized
Printing, saving, or emailing a list
4 Your chart of accounts
Chart of accounts overview
Adding new accounts
Entering opening balances for accounts in use,
Editing opening balances
Editing account information
Deleting an account
Using account numbers
Keeping your chart of accounts organized
Changing an account’s color
Merging existing accounts
Printing your chart of accounts
5 Items—your products and services
Items overview,
Creating items,
Tips for businesses that invoice for costs,
Using sub items,
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Reports about items,
Editing item information,
Deleting items,
Changing prices,
6 Tracking sales
Types of sales forms,
Entering a sales transaction,
Working with sales transactions,
Customizing your sales form,
Printing, saving, or emailing a sale form,
Charging for actual time and costs,
Creating a daily sales summary,
Assessing finance charges,
Using billing statements,
Using estimates
Questions and answers about sales forms
7 Receiving and depositing payments
Recording an invoice or statement payment,
Overpayments, down payments, and prepayments,
Retainers,
Correcting the application of a payment,
Depositing payments,
Recording a return,
Handling a bounced check from a customer,
Questions and answers about payments,
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8 Inventory
Inventory overview,
Viewing items on order,
Receiving inventory items,
Using the inventory register,
Viewing the average cost of inventory items,
Adjusting value and quantity on hand,
Returning items to a vendor
Reports about inventory,
10 Sales tax—track and pay
Sales tax overview,
Turning on sales tax
Creating tax items for each single tax you apply,
Creating tax groups
Editing sales tax items,
Assigning taxes to customers,
Marking items you sell as taxable
Applying sales tax to an invoice or cash sale,
Non-taxable sales
Unusual tax situations,
Keeping track of how much sales tax you owe
Paying sales tax
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9 Accounts receivable management
Viewing the accounts receivable register,
Viewing the customer register,
Editing a transaction in the A/R register
Changing the opening balance for a customer
Viewing an A/R transaction history,
Viewing a QuickReport about a customer,
Working with A/R reports and graphs,
10 Bills
Bills overview,
Entering a bill
Paying bills,
Viewing a bill payment
Editing bills and payments,
Deleting bills and payments,
Having QuickBooks remind you to pay your bills,
Entering credit from a vendor,
Questions and answers about bills,
11 Accounts payable management
Viewing the accounts payable register,
Editing a transaction in the A/P register,
Viewing an A/P transaction history,
Viewing a Quick Report about a vendor,
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Working with A/P reports and graphs,
12 Managing your checkbook
Checks overview,
Entering a check,
Editing checks,
Voiding checks,
Deleting checks,
Printing, saving, or emailing checks,
Depositing funds into your checking account,
13 Credit card transactions
Credit card overview,
Entering a credit card transaction,
Editing a credit card transaction,
Reconciling/paying your credit card statement,
14 Purchase orders
Purchase order overview,
Turning on the purchase order feature
Customizing purchase orders,
Entering a purchase order,
Viewing purchase orders,
Receiving items against a purchase order,
Editing purchase orders,
Closing a purchase order manually,
Printing purchase orders,
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15 Account registers
Account registers overview,
Opening an account’s register,
Entering transactions in a register,
Editing transactions in a register,
Finding a specific transaction,
Printing, saving, or emailing a register
16 Assets, liabilities, and equity
Assets overview,
Adding fixed asset and depreciation accounts,
Selling fixed assets,
Recording thefts or losses of fixed assets
Purchasing assets,
Liabilities overview,
Borrowing money,
Adding a loan to your chart of accounts
Tracking loan payments
Equity overview,
Distributing yearly profits to partners
Creating equity accounts,
Transferring money out of Opening Bal. Equity,
Recording an owner’s draw
Recording an owner’s capital investment,
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17 Account reconciliation
Reconciling accounts overview,
Balancing your account for the first time
Reconciling your checking account statement
Marking cleared transactions
Completing reconciliation,
Reconciling your credit card statement,
Correcting differences,
Printing a reconciliation report,
18 Time tracking
Time tracking overview,
Time tracking preferences,
Filling in a weekly timesheet,
Entering single activities,
Invoicing customers for time,
Reports about time,
19 Payroll
The differences between the Payroll Services available
from QuickBooks
How to set up Payroll (including employees, Federal
and State taxes and basic Payroll deductions) using the
Payroll Setup Wizard.
How to set up an employee’s earnings and sick or
vacation time
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How to track sick or vacation time (accruing hours and
using “banked” hours)
How and why to setup Payroll Schedules
How to run Payroll
How and why to pay Payroll Liabilities
How to prepare payroll forms (941, W2) in QuickBooks
Track time and use it for payroll or for invoicing
customers
20 – Reports
Setting your report preferences,
Creating a report,
Customizing a report,
Filtering report data,
Using Quick Zoom for report details,
Printing, saving, or emailing a report,
Exporting a report to Microsoft Excel,
Memorizing and recalling reports,
Quick Reports
Questions and answers about reports,
Graphs,
Budgets