Professional Tips and Workarounds for QuickBooks Online: Improve your QuickBooks Online and bookkeeping skills using advanced techniques and best practices

Ashley Beetson

Dec 2021 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Save hours of guesswork and Internet browsing by enhancing your QuickBooks Online skills and leveraging Ash Beetson's extensive QuickBooks knowledgeKey FeaturesBroaden your knowledge of QuickBooks Online and accounting conceptsUnderstand how QuickBooks can be adapted to suit different business types using professional techniquesLearn best practices for preparing annual accounts before closing the books for the yearBook Description

Accountants and bookkeepers can sometimes face challenges while coming up with solutions to help their clients. QuickBooks Online, a popular cloud accounting software, comes with a wide range of tools that can take time to learn. This book will show you how to properly combine the tools available in QuickBooks to get the most out of this software.

Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, the book will begin by helping you understand how to create opening balances for a new company. You'll then discover essential bookkeeping and accountancy tips and tricks, and find guidance to help make QuickBooks as easy to use as possible. As you advance, you'll explore different scenarios in which QuickBooks Online can be used for various business types. This will help you understand that not every business is the same, but using the wide range of functionalities QuickBooks Online offers, you can customize solutions to really make it work for you.

By the end of this QuickBooks book, you'll have gained deep insights into how you can use QuickBooks Online to work for different business types, and you'll have a complete checklist of the different things you should be doing when you start reviewing accounts ahead of tax season.

What you will learnDiscover how to correctly set up QuickBooks Online with opening balancesAdapt QuickBooks Online to meet specific industry needs, from manufacturing and retail using inventory to helping lawyers and property agents handle client fundsGet the most out of features such as Projects and MulticurrencyReview reports within QuickBooks Online, understand why errors occur, and learn how to resolve themGet to grips with key accounting principles and concepts tailored for bookkeeping and accounting beginnersFind out how the audit trail works and explore all of the information it holdsWho this book is for

Business owners, company directors, accountants, bookkeepers, certified public accountants (CPAs), and anyone studying accounting and bookkeeping will find this book useful. The book contains general bookkeeping and accountancy tips and is designed to help you get the most out of the tools available in QuickBooks Online. Prior QuickBooks knowledge is necessary.

About the author

Ashley Beetson has worked in various bookkeeping and accounting roles over a career spanning 30 years. This has included working in law firms, manufacturing, and an accounting practice, as well as operating his own bookkeeping business for 10 years. In 2014, Ash was invited to join the UK Trainer Writer Network, assisting Intuit in creating training materials for QuickBooks ProAdvisors. In 2021, Ash was included in the Top 100 list of ProAdvisors as compiled by The Insightful Accountant. In 2019, Ash co-created nettTracker, a third-party software application that integrates with QuickBooks Online.