Instructor
Tommy Stephens, Jr
Instructor
The QuickBooks platform is robust with features and capabilities that many users are unaware of or do not know how to utilize effectively. This course helps you get more out of QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online and resolve the issues that even experienced QuickBooks users struggle with, such as locking down prior periods. This program starts fast with a chapter covering the top issues accountants face with QuickBooks. Then, the day continues with practical guidance and solutions designed to help accountants get the most out of QuickBooks for themselves or their clients. You will learn about issues, such as setting up a new company, configuring and customizing QuickBooks preferences, and enabling system security and password protection features. Also, you will learn how to lock down transactions in prior periods, the audit trail, customizing reports, exporting reports to Excel, and extending QuickBooks’ usefulness with tools such as the Fixed Asset Manager and Loan Manager. Despite the product’s user-friendly design, the most common QuickBooks problems involve recording transactions incorrectly. Adequate training is necessary to prevent these and other issues. Help your client put the power of QuickBooks to work the right way. Register for this professional educational seminar today!
• Identify appropriate responses to common QuickBooks user issues, such as closing accounting periods, eliminating payables and receivables from cash-basis financial statements, purging old transactions from QuickBooks, voiding checks in prior periods, viewing underlying debit and credit entries, and recommended end-of-period procedures
• List new features added to recent versions of QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online and apply these features; additionally, differentiate between the different products in the QuickBooks family
• Define appropriate procedures for setting up client data files in QuickBooks, including converting data from other accounting applications, creating data files, using templates, entering beginning balances, establishing user access and security rights and privileges, and establishing preferences
• Identify techniques for making reports and analyzing data in QuickBooks, including creating and customizing reports and exporting reports to Excel
• Identify situations where QuickBooks Online may be an appropriate solution for a business currently using or considering using QuickBooks
• QuickBooks user issues
• New features of QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online
• Client data files in QuickBooks
• Reports and analyzing data
Fundamental understanding of basic QuickBooks operations
Accounting and financial professionals who use or support clients who use QuickBooks