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Stephen L. Nelson
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December 18, 2018

QuickBooks 2021 All-in-One For Dummies

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Do the numbers in double-quick time with this trusted QuickBooks bestseller!

Running your own business can be cool, but some of the financial side—accounting and payroll, for instance—is not always so cool! That's why millions of small business owners around the world bank on QuickBooks to easily manage accounting and financial tasks and save big-time on shelling out for an expensive professional. QuickBooks 2021 All-in-One For Dummies contains eight information-rich mini-books that account for all your financial line-item asks, showing you step-by-step how to plan your perfect budget, simplify tax returns,

manage inventory, create invoices, track costs, generate reports, and accurately check off every other accounting and financial-management task that comes across your desk!

  • Get the most out of QuickBooks 2021
  • Sharpen up on the basics with an accounting primer
  • Craft a world-class business plan
  • Process taxes and payroll in double-quick time

Written by expert CPA and small business advisor Stephen L. Nelson, QuickBooks All-in-One 2021 For Dummies is the best-selling blue-chip go-to that will save you time and money—and will allow you to enjoy the fruits of your labors!

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About The Author

Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, MS in Taxation, is a CPA in Redmond, Washington, where he provides accounting, business advisory, and tax planning and preparation services to small businesses. He is the bestselling author of 100-plus books about how to use computers to manage personal and business finances.

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To display shortcut menus in QuickBooks 2019, right-click. In a register, select and right-click a specific transaction; in a list, right-click an item; in a form, display a transaction and right-click a blank area of the form.QuickBooks displays a shortcut menu of common commands for each particular transaction, item, or window.
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You can add a bunch of types of items to the QuickBooks Item list. The Item list stores descriptions of anything that you stick in an invoice or purchase order.When you think about this for a minute, you realize that you have different types of items. If you’re a retailer, for example, the inventory that you sell may appear in an invoice.
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A QuickBooks purchase order serves a simple purpose: It tells a vendor that you want to purchase some item. In fact, a purchase order is a contract to purchase.Many small businesses don’t use purchase orders. But when they grow to a certain size, many businesses decide to use them because purchase orders become permanent records of items that they’ve ordered.
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You can change item information on the QuickBooks Item List. To do so, display the Item List window and then double-click the item. When you do this, QuickBooks displays the Edit Item window, which resembles the New Item window. The difference is that the Edit Item window is already filled in with the item information.
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When you're working with QuickBooks, you will encounter command windows. To perform a common accounting or bookkeeping task in QuickBooks, use these commands. When QuickBooks displays the command's window, you just fill in the boxes and press Enter. To Do This Choose This QuickBooks Command Dealing with Custo
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To invoice a customer from QuickBooks 2019, use the Create Invoices window to identify the customer and specify the amount that the customer owes. To display the Create Invoices window, choose the Customers → Create Invoices command. When you do, QuickBooks displays a Create Invoices window like the one shown.
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For the self-employed or small business owner, QuickBooks 2019 provides two do-it-yourself options for paying employees: Basic Payroll (which usually means that your accountant helps you with the payroll tax forms) and Enhanced Payroll (which means that QuickBooks helps you with the payroll tax forms). With the Basic Payroll option, you do most of the work yourself, but you don’t pay very much for your payroll processing.
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You can fine-tune how QuickBooks 2019 works for you by setting QuickBooks preferences. If you indicate that you charge customers sales tax, for example, the EasyStep Interview describes how sales tax should work for your business by using the sales tax preferences. In fact, just so you know, much of what you do when you run QuickBooks Setup via the Detailed Start route (also known as the QuickBooks EasyStep Interview) is provide information that QuickBooks uses to fine-tune.
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When you set up QuickBooks 2019, as a practical matter, you not only create a company file that you’ll use to store financial information about your business, but also set up master file lists, such as the QuickBooks Item List and QuickBooks Class List. These master file lists store information that you can use and reuse.
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The QuickBooks 2019 Chart of Accounts list is a list of accounts that you use to categorize your income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity amounts. If you want to see a particular line item of financial data on a report, you need an account for that line item. If you want to budget by a particular line item, you need an account for that budget amount.
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You can use the following QuickBooks 2019 PC keyboard shortcuts to help make your day-to-day small-business accounting easier and faster. Press This PC Shortcut QuickBooks Does This Alt+S Saves a transaction Alt+N Saves a transaction and goes to a new transaction Ctrl+A Displays the Chart of Accounts window C
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Here is a list of the best QuickBooks troubleshooting techniques for working through any problems you may have. After writing about QuickBooks for more than 20 years, I’ve had a revelation of sorts: People want not only specific, step-by-step information about how to use the program, but also troubleshooting advice.
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You can learn to navigate the QuickBooks 2019 software very quickly if you employ some of the following interface navigation tricks: To move quickly to a specific list-box entry, press the letter. Press the s key to move to the first list entry that begins with the letter s, for example. To select a list-box entry shown within a dialog box and simultaneously choose a suggested command button for the active dialog box (probably the OK button), double-click the entry.
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