QuickBooks Training DVD

1. Introduction

• Welcome
• Understanding QuickBooks Pro
• Learning how this title works
• A word of warning
• Using the exercise files

2. Basic Accounting Principles

• Understanding the big picture
• Creating an income statement
• Understanding the cost of goods sold
• Using a balance sheet
• Using double-entry accounting
• Differentiating accrual from cash-based accounting

3. The Easy Step Interview

• Preparing for the Easy Step Interview
• Upgrading from a previous version of QuickBooks
• Converting data from other programs
• Starting the Easy Step Interview
• Customizing QuickBooks for your business

4. Understanding the QuickBooks Environment

• Using the home page
• Using the Navigation and Icon bars
• Setting up QuickBooks Essential Preferences

5. Chart of Accounts

• Understanding the Charts of Account list
• Creating an account
• Creating a sub-account
• Editing an account
• Making accounts inactive and deleting accounts

6. Setting Up Items

• Understanding the Items list
• Adding an inventory item
• Adding a non-inventory item
• Adding service items
• Adding other charges
• Adding sub-items

7. Sales Tax

• Learning if it's necessary to collect and pay sales tax
• Setting up sales tax items
• Setting up sales tax codes

8. Customer Information

• Using the Customer Center
• Adding a new customer
• Adding a new job
• Merging customers
• Making customers inactive and deleting accounts

9. Invoicing Customers

• Creating an invoice
• Using invoice templates
• Modifying the Customer Message
• Printing invoices
• Emailing invoices
• Voiding invoices
• Editing and deleting invoices
• Using Credit Memos
• Creating client statements
• Assessing finance charge

10. Customer Payments

• Making client sales receipts
• Receiving payments
• Making a deposit
• Applying discounts and credits
• Refunding clients

11. Vendor Information

• Using the Vendor Center
• Adding a new vendor
• Opening balance
• Setting a vendor account number
• Categorizing vendors and defaults
• Making vendors inactive and deleting accounts

12. Entering Vendor Bills

• Entering bills
• Crediting a bill
• Editing, deleting, or voiding a bill
• Merging vendors

13. Paying Vendor Bills

• Using bill payments vs. writing a check
• Paying a bill
• Assigning check numbers
• Printing checks in batches
• Applying vendor credits and discounts
• Using the Write Checks window

14. Using Purchase Orders

• Understanding the reason for purchase orders
• Creating a purchase order
• Receiving items and entering bills at the same time
• Receiving items
• Entering a bill for received items
• Learning to close a purchase order

15. Understanding Preset Reports

• Understanding preset reports
• Understanding Sales by Item Summary reports
• Understanding Accounts Receivable Aging reports
• Understanding Unpaid Bills reports
• Understanding Inventory reports
• Understanding Open Purchase Orders reports

16. Working with Reports

• Modifying a report
• Memorizing a report
• Exporting reports to Excel
• Printing reports

17. Additional Information

• Paying sales tax
• Performing a manual inventory adjustment

18. Pitfalls

• Understanding memorized transactions
• Understanding closing periods

Conclusion

• Using additional resources
• Goodbye