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Mastering QuickBooks 2025

You're reading from   Mastering QuickBooks 2025 Bookkeeping for small businesses with US QuickBooks Online

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836649977
Length
Edition 6th Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Setting Up Your Company File
2. Getting Started with QuickBooks Online FREE CHAPTER 3. Company File Setup 4. Customizing QuickBooks for Your Business 5. Managing Customer, Vendor, and Products and Services Lists 6. Part 2: Recording Transactions in QuickBooks Online
7. Managing Sales Tax 8. Recording Sales Transactions in QuickBooks Online 9. Recording Expenses in QuickBooks Online 10. Part 3: Managing Employees and Contractors
11. Managing Employees and 1099 Contractors in QuickBooks Online 12. Part 4: Closing the Books and Handling Special Transactions
13. Closing the Books in QuickBooks Online 14. Handling Special Transactions in QuickBooks Online 15. Part 5: Integrating E-Commerce Platforms and Advanced Inventory Management
16. Integrating E-Commerce Platforms with QuickBooks Online 17. Advanced Inventory Management 18. Part 6: Online Bonus Content
19. Index

Setting up company preferences in QBO

Before you start entering data into QuickBooks, you should spend some time going through the company preferences, which allow you to activate features that you would like to use and deactivate features that you don’t plan on using. If you are not sure of what to select in this section, you can always update the settings later on. Click on the gear icon and select Account and settings, located below the Your Company column.

The company preferences are made up of eight key areas:

  • Company settings
  • Usage settings
  • Payments settings
  • QuickBooks Checking
  • Sales settings
  • Expenses settings
  • Time settings
  • Advanced settings

Let’s look at each one of these in more detail.

Company settings

In your company preferences, you will provide basic information about your business, such as the contact email and telephone number, where customers can reach you, your company logo, and...

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