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Course Code: qio
In this first lesson, you'll activate your free subscription and then get started with the practice sample company. You'll also learn the various ways to manage and access your QuickBooks company files and how to set up user permissions so that your file remains secure.
Without a doubt, inventory tracking is usually one of the more difficult areas for most businesses to track. In this lesson, you'll learn how QuickBooks Online (QBO) tracks the purchase and sale of inventory items. You'll also dive much deeper into some of the more advanced inventory features, such as using product categories, bundles, and price rules.
Inventory is one of those assets that is frequently mishandled and even stolen. Regardless of what accounting system you use to track inventory, it's imperative that you build in some solid internal controls surrounding the flow of inventory into and out of your business. In this lesson, you'll learn how to record inventory purchases, receipts, credits, payments, and refunds. You'll also learn how to adjust inventory quantities on-hand should your accounting balance get out of sync with your actual inventory count.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to customize your sales forms to give them a more professional look. You'll also learn how to utilize the class and locations feature when entering transactions. These features are optional but can be used to provide an extra layer of detail to your entry tracking and reporting.
In addition to their overall profitability, some companies also like to track the profitability of a particular job, project, or customer. To help make this easier, QuickBooks has a built-in Projects feature to track this information. In this lesson, you'll learn how to create and track the profitability of a project in QuickBooks.
When it comes time to invoice your customers, there's no "one size fits all" approach. Some companies can avoid invoicing entirely, while other situations may warrant a lengthier invoicing procedure. In this lesson, you'll enter the world of progress invoicing. You'll see how progress invoicing is used in conjunction with the project tracking that was introduced in the last lesson. In addition to progress invoicing, this lesson is going to dive into the difficult topic of recording bad debts.
In this lesson, you'll learn what QuickBooks's capabilities are for processing payroll. Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, charges additional subscription fees to fully take advantage of processing payroll using the program. You'll also learn how to record the sale and redemption of gift cards in your business.
In this lesson, you'll practice with recording both new and existing fixed asset balances. Since fixed asset balances are often large in nature, such as the purchase of a building, equipment, or a delivery truck, businesses may acquire a loan to assist in the purchase. You'll learn how to enter these loan balances, any related to down payment amounts, and payments on these loans when the time comes.
In this lesson, you'll learn a bit more about different business entities and how those differences impact the way you'll set up and interact with QuickBooks Online. This lesson will also cover those seemingly frequent situations where the owner of a business mixes business and personal funds or invests or draws funds directly to or from the business.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to create bank rules that will help you streamline the reconciliation process. You'll also learn how you can enter a forecasted budget for your business and how to generate some great reports that will allow you to evaluate your actual business performance against your planned budget information.
In this lesson, you'll explore how QuickBooks handles receipts and payments in a foreign currency. You may or may not end up using this feature on a daily basis, but with the rise of online commerce, even many small businesses are selling their products (and sometimes services) internationally. You'll also learn how to track and record vehicle mileage for your company vehicle or vehicles. For some businesses, mileage tracking can get a little tedious, but it's a necessary task as you can usually convert the cost of these miles and use it as a tax deduction at the end of the year.
In the final lesson, you'll learn how to finalize your numbers at the end of each month (or year) and how best to evaluate your business performance. If you're new to accounting, you'll get an overview of the accounting cycle. You'll learn more about what steps in the cycle you are responsible for and which steps the system will handle for you. Then, you'll learn some tips on how to identify some common problems that may occur in your day-to-day bookkeeping and how best to resolve these problems. You'll also learn what it means to adjust and close the books at month-end and how to create those critical Financial Statements.
Scott Paxton is a Certified Public Accountant and holds master's degrees in business administration and accounting. His background includes experience as a public accountant, a manager in the banking industry, an entrepreneur and a college business instructor. Paxton has also spent much of his career helping small business owners successfully implement and troubleshoot QuickBooks.
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
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The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
Instructor-Led: A new session of each course begins each month. Please refer to the session start dates for scheduling.
Self-Paced: You can start this course at any time your schedule permits.
Instructor-Led: Once a session starts, two lessons will be released each week, for the 6 week duration of your course. You will have access to all previously released lessons until the course ends.
Self-Paced: You have three-month access to the course. After enrolling, you can learn and complete the course at your own pace, within the allotted access period.
Instructor-Led: The interactive discussion area for each lesson automatically closes 2 weeks after each lesson is released, so you're encouraged to complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
Self-Paced: There is no time limit to complete each lesson, other than completing all lessons before your three-month access expires.
Instructor-Led: The Final Exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the Final Exam has been released, you will have 2 weeks plus 10 days to complete the Final and finish any remaining lessons in your course. No further extensions can be provided beyond these 10 days.
Self-Paced: Because this course is self-paced, no extensions will be granted after the start of your enrollment.
QuickBooks is the top selling accounting software for small and medium businesses in the United States. There are nearly 29 million businesses that use QuickBooks today. It is a software that can be used to keep track of the financial documents in companies across any industry, and you can be sure that learning to effectively and efficiently use the QuickBooks software will open up doors to new jobs as a professional bookkeeper or allow you to manage the finances of your own small business. You can also use QuickBooks to keep track of your finances at home.
QuickBooks online allows you to compute in the cloud. This means that software is not directly loaded onto your machine. The advantage of this method is you can access your business files and financial documents anywhere and on any device. It's perfect for busy professionals who need to keep track of their books wherever they are.
Yes, QuickBooks can be used to keep track of your finances and produce reports of your financial documents. You can also use QuickBooks to do payroll, track PTO, calculate tax payments, create budgets, print invoices and receipts, forecast revenue, and report on the overall profitability of your company. Understanding this valuable software will help you save time in completing financial records, and free you to focus on other important areas like product, sales, or customer service.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is a lot of need for bookkeepers, and the job outlook is expected to remain relatively constant through 2026. Understanding how to efficiently use bookkeeping software like QuickBooks will help you as more and more businesses turn to technology to perform basic accounting tasks.
Not exactly. There are five major parts to the accounting process and they include: recording, interpreting, classifying, analyzing, and reporting financial information. Bookkeeping is the first, foundational part of the accounting process — recording financial transactions.
You'll gain the skills you need to create and stick to a budget within this powerful software. You'll learn to record income and expenses including all of your banking transactions. You can even set up reports that will show you where the majority of your money is being spent.
Once you gain access to the course, you will have step-by-step instructions on how to access and activate your free 1-year subscription to QuickBooks Online.
No, there is only one QuickBooks 1-year subscription per student (not per enrollment or per session. Once a student has activated their subscription, they will not be eligible for another one.
We will be launching an Intermediate QuickBooks Online course in late Spring 2020.
