Setting Up Your QuickBooks Pro Company | p. 1 |
Getting Started | p. 1 |
Using the Preformatted Company File | p. 2 |
How to Modify Your Existing QuickBooks Pro File | p. 7 |
Converting from Quicken to QuickBooks Pro | p. 9 |
How to Create a New QuickBooks Pro Data File | p. 14 |
Preferences | |
Selecting Preferences | p. 21 |
General Preferences | p. 21 |
Accounting Preferences | p. 22 |
Checking Preferences | p. 23 |
Finance Charge Preferences | p. 24 |
Iconbar Preferences | p. 25 |
Jobs and Estimates Preferences | p. 26 |
Menu Preferences | p. 27 |
Payroll and Employees Preferences | p. 28 |
Purchase and Vendors Preferences | p. 30 |
Reminders Preferences | p. 31 |
Reports and Graphs Preferences | p. 32 |
Sales and Customers Preferences | p. 34 |
Sales Tax Preferences | p. 36 |
Tax: 1099 Preferences | p. 37 |
Time Tracking Preferences | p. 38 |
Chart of Accounts | |
Chart of Accounts | p. 41 |
Using the Sample Chart of Accounts | p. 43 |
Modifying Your Chart of Accounts | p. 43 |
Sample Chart of Accounts | p. 46 |
Items | |
Designing Your List of Items | p. 49 |
Subitems | p. 49 |
Hourly Rate Billing Items | p. 51 |
How to Set Up Your Items List | p. 52 |
How to Enter Subitems | p. 54 |
Entering Non-Project Related Items | p. 56 |
Payroll Items | |
Setting Up New Payroll Items | p. 59 |
Setting up a New Hourly Rate Payroll Item | p. 60 |
Setting up a New Salary Payroll Item | p. 63 |
Changing Existing Payroll Items | p. 65 |
Including Sole Proprietor and Partners' Time in Project Reports | p. 67 |
Classes | |
Profitability by Partner | p. 75 |
Departmental Reporting | p. 76 |
Division Level Accounting | p. 79 |
Customers and Jobs | |
How to Set up a Customer | p. 81 |
Entering a New Customer | p. 82 |
The Additional Info Tab | p. 83 |
Creating a Custom Field | p. 84 |
Adding A Job | p. 85 |
Job Info Tab | p. 86 |
Exporting or Printing Your Customer List | p. 87 |
Vendors and Subcontractors | |
How to Set up 1099 Vendors | p. 89 |
Creating a Custom Field | p. 92 |
Modifying an Existing Vendor | p. 93 |
How to Set up Non-1099 Vendors | p. 94 |
Employees | |
How to Set up a New Employee | p. 95 |
Creating a Custom Field | p. 98 |
Opening Balances | |
General Ledger Opening Balances | p. 101 |
Accounts Receivable Opening Balances | p. 101 |
Accounts Payable Opening Balances | p. 103 |
Procedures/Workflow | |
Procedures/ Workflow | p. 105 |
Office Procedures | p. 105 |
Customers and Job Files | p. 105 |
Vendor Files | p. 106 |
Employee Files | p. 106 |
Payroll Procedures | p. 106 |
Current Paperwork | p. 107 |
Office Procedures | p. 107 |
Work Flow | p. 108 |
Job Transaction Procedures | p. 109 |
Vendor Transaction Procedures | p. 110 |
Customer Transaction Procedures | p. 111 |
Timecard Categories | p. 113 |
Example of Timecard | p. 115 |
Estimating | |
Entering Estimates in QuickBooks Pro | p. 117 |
Customizing the Estimate Form | p. 119 |
Memorizing an Estimate | p. 120 |
Payroll | |
Entering a Timesheet | p. 123 |
Processing Payroll for Employees | p. 127 |
Printing Employee Paychecks | p. 130 |
Sole Proprietor/Partners' Time to Projects | p. 131 |
Payables | |
Entering Bills for Project Related Expenses | p. 135 |
Entering Bills for Normal Operating Expenses | p. 137 |
Paying Your Bills | p. 138 |
Printing Checks | p. 140 |
Memorized Transactions | p. 141 |
Receivables | |
Invoicing Customers | p. 143 |
Creating a Fixed Price Invoice | p. 143 |
Creating an Invoice Based on Time and Expenses | p. 145 |
Creating a Fixed Price Progress Invoice from an Existing QBPro Estimate | p. 149 |
Recording a Payment from a Customer | p. 152 |
Record a Deposit Taken to the Bank | p. 153 |
How to Handle Project Deposits | p. 155 |
Using QuickBooks Pro on a Cash Basis | |
What is Cash Basis Accounting? | p. 159 |
Recording a Check | p. 160 |
Entering Deposits | p. 162 |
Using the QuickBooks Pro Register to View Transactions | p. 163 |
Reports | |
Memorized Reports | p. 165 |
Customizing Reports | p. 166 |
Budget vs Actual by Class Report | p. 170 |
Chart of Accounts | p. 171 |
Employee Phone List | p. 173 |
Estimate vs Actuals Cost Report | p. 175 |
Items List | p. 177 |
Job Profitability Detail | p. 179 |
Transaction Detail by Account | p. 181 |
Standard Project Reports | p. 183 |
Job Profitability Summary Report | p. 183 |
Job Profitability Detail Report | p. 184 |
Job Estimate vs Actuals Detail Report | p. 186 |
Time by Name Report | p. 187 |
Time Activity Detail Report | p. 189 |
End of Month/End of Year Procedures | |
End of Month Procedures | p. 191 |
Reconcile the Checking Account | p. 191 |
Run Reports to Verify Accuracy of Data Entry | p. 192 |
Print Monthly Reports | p. 197 |
Reading and Understanding Your Financial Reports | p. 198 |
End of Year Procedures | p. 200 |
How to Write Off Bad Debt | p. 202 |
Print Annual Reports | p. 205 |
Online Accounting Services | |
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