Course curriculum

    1. 1005 QuickBooks Desktop vs QuickBooks Online

    2. Documents to Download

    3. 1009 QuickBooks Desktop

    4. 1010 How To Download the Software

    5. 1012 30 Day Free Trial or Purchase Process

    6. 1015 Install QuickBooks Desktop

    7. 1017 Increase Display Size

    1. 1020 Download & Open Sample File

    2. 1080 Home Page Overview

    3. 1100 Bank Feeds

    4. 1120 Preferences

    1. 1140 Vendors Section

    2. 1160 Vendor

    3. 1180 Bill Form

    4. 1200 Pay Bills Form Check

    5. 1220 Purchase Order Form P.O

    6. 1222 Bill With Inventory Connected to P.O.

    7. 1227 Inventory Adjustment

    8. 1240 Manage Sales Tax

    9. 1260 Check Form

    10. 1280 Void Check Prior Period

    1. 1300 Customer Section Customer Cycle98df20c.autosave

    2. 1320 Customer Center

    3. 1340 Invoice Form

    4. 1360 Receive Payment Form

    5. 1380 Deposit Form

    6. 1400 Sales Receipts Form

    7. 1405 Barter Sale Transaction

    8. 1420 Credit Memo Refund Form & Bad Debt Expense

    9. 1423 Statement Charges

    10. 1426 Finance Charges

    1. 1440 Banking Section, Company Section Shortcuts

    2. 1460 Customize Shortcuts & Home Page Icons

    1. 1480 Employee Section Payroll Process

    2. 1500 Employee Center

    3. 1540 Pay Payroll Liabilities Form

    4. 1545 Process Payroll Forms

    5. 1548 Enter Time Form

About this course

  • $100.00
  • 201 lessons
  • 56 hours of video content

Description

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.