QuickBooks Desktop
Comprehensive QuickBooks course that starts at the basics and moves forward in a well planned and understandable way
1005 QuickBooks Desktop vs QuickBooks Online
Documents to Download
1009 QuickBooks Desktop
1010 How To Download the Software
1012 30 Day Free Trial or Purchase Process
1015 Install QuickBooks Desktop
1017 Increase Display Size
1020 Download & Open Sample File
1080 Home Page Overview
1100 Bank Feeds
1120 Preferences
1140 Vendors Section
1160 Vendor
1180 Bill Form
1200 Pay Bills Form Check
1220 Purchase Order Form P.O
1222 Bill With Inventory Connected to P.O.
1227 Inventory Adjustment
1240 Manage Sales Tax
1260 Check Form
1280 Void Check Prior Period
1300 Customer Section Customer Cycle98df20c.autosave
1320 Customer Center
1340 Invoice Form
1360 Receive Payment Form
1380 Deposit Form
1400 Sales Receipts Form
1405 Barter Sale Transaction
1420 Credit Memo Refund Form & Bad Debt Expense
1423 Statement Charges
1426 Finance Charges
1440 Banking Section, Company Section Shortcuts
1460 Customize Shortcuts & Home Page Icons
1480 Employee Section Payroll Process
1500 Employee Center
1540 Pay Payroll Liabilities Form
1545 Process Payroll Forms
1548 Enter Time Form
Our course starts at the basics, such as how to access the QuickBooks software, possibly for free, and then moves through an in-depth analysis of the software.
The course is designed so learners can go from start to finish but also have the option of jumping to the most relevant parts of the course, using the course as a reference guide to fall back on as needed.
This course will include backup files, a great tool to jump ahead or rework a portion of a problem. The backup files allow learners to have the exact same data as the example problem, so they can follow the presentation and perform the task in an easy, step-by-step process.
The first part of the course will demonstrate how to access the QuickBooks software, possibly for free, download it, and install it.
We will then use the sample file provided by QuickBooks to learn how to navigate the accounting software, locate the most commonly used areas, and understand the relationship between data input and the final product of financial statements and related reports.
The sample file is an excellent tool for learning how to navigate the software because it already has data in it, allowing us to deconstruct the process of data input by going to the end result of financial statements and drilling back to the source documents used to enter the data.
We will analyze transactions by accounting cycle: vendor cycle, customer cycle, and employee cycle. The vendor cycle may also be called the payment cycle, purchases cycle, account payable cycle, or expenses cycle. The customer cycle may also be called the revenue cycle, sales cycle, or accounts receivable cycle.
The course will break down the flow of data input forms in each cycle and the impact of each form on the financial statements and related reports.
In the next major section of the course, we will start a new company file, an essential process for learning how to set up the foundational accounting system components like the chart of accounts, service items, revenue items, and beginning balances.
Learners will enter two months of data input along with instructional videos, entering a wide variety of common transactions and analyzing the impact of each on the financial statements and related reports.
After entering two months of data input, learners will prepare bank reconciliations using demonstration bank statements, learning how to perform a bank reconciliation, why we reconcile, and what outstanding items are.
The course also has an extensive section on how to use bank feeds. Learners will learn how to connect to the bank, download bank feeds into QuickBooks, and add the necessary data to include the bank data into the accounting system to create financial transactions or verify transactions that have already been created. We will also cover how to use bank rules to make data input much faster and more efficient. The course will demonstrate data input using bank feeds for checking, credit card, and PayPal accounts.
Next, we will enter adjusting entries; entries used to adjust financial statement reports more closely to their accounting basis as of the end of the month or year. Common accounting basis includes accrual basis, cash basis, or tax basis.
Learners will also understand how budgets fit into the accounting process, what some best practices are to construct a budget, how to enter a budget into QuickBooks, and how to run budget reports.
The course also has information on more specialized topics like using account numbers, customizing forms, using class tracking, memorizing transactions, fixed asset tracking, tax mapping, and multiple currencies.