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Article / Updated 03-26-2021
Most of the time, line items that appear in QuickBooks invoices are items that you describe in the Item list and then quantify directly in the invoice. In some service businesses, however, you may actually sell many units of the same item. A lawyer may sell hours or partial hours of legal advice, and that time may be all that she sells.
Article / Updated 03-26-2021
You aren’t limited to using one password to control access to your QuickBooks 2021 data file. You can set up several passwords for the QuickBooks data file. What’s really neat about this practice is that you can tell QuickBooks to allow certain users and passwords to do only certain things.This sounds complicated, but it’s really not.
Article / Updated 03-26-2021
After you install the QuickBooks 2021 program, the installation program may start QuickBooks automatically and then start QuickBooks Setup. You can also start QuickBooks Setup by starting the QuickBooks program the same way that you start any program and then choosing File→New Company.
Getting the big welcome
The Let’s Set Up Your Business!
Article / Updated 03-26-2021
The My Preferences tab of the Accounting Preferences dialog box provides a single option: You can tell QuickBooks 2021 that you want it to autofill information when recording a general journal entry.Don’t get irritated with the lack of personalization, however. This almost total lack of individually personalized preferences makes sense, if you think about it.
Article / Updated 03-26-2021
If you’ve already been using QuickBooks, all you do to implement a simple activity-based costing (ABC) system in QuickBooks 2021 is what you’re doing right now. In other words, just keep on tracking your operating expenses by using a good, decent chart of accounts. That’s 90 percent of the battle.You also need to take care of one or two minor additional items:
You turn on the QuickBooks Class Tracking feature.
Article / Updated 03-17-2021
You can use QuickBooks to track your business credit cards in much the same way that you use it to keep a checkbook. The process is almost the same, with a few wrinkles.By the way, although this article is really about you charging money on your credit cards, we also talk about how to handle the tricky problem of your customers paying with credit cards.
Article / Updated 03-17-2021
You can write checks in QuickBooks 2021 in two ways: from the Write Checks window and from the register. In case you were asleep in the back row of the class, here’s the short version of the instructions for writing checks.
You can record debit card and ATM transactions the same way that you record checks that you write.
Article / Updated 03-17-2021
All you need to do to sign up for online banking services is choose Banking→Bank Feeds→Set Up Account for Online Services. QuickBooks starts an online application wizard that walks you through the steps to apply for the online banking services. Just follow the onscreen instructions, and voilà! That’s it.
To actually begin transmitting online payments or making account inquiries, you need to complete the application and have that application processed.