
Download, unzip, and organize QuickBooks backup files for business and personal data, then restore qb files to access the appropriate prior dataset for each practice section.
Enter personal deposits from January into a separate QuickBooks file, classifying W-2 income, tax refunds, Amazon book royalties, interest, and miscellaneous income; verify with the profit and loss.
Enter personal cash outflows in quickbooks, including credit card payments, college costs, and phone, from bank statements for accurate reconciliation and tax purposes.
Explore how to perform a January bank reconciliation in QuickBooks Desktop Pro for personal bookkeeping, entering the beginning balance, reconciling deposits and checks, and resolving data-entry differences.
Enter January bank outflows in QuickBooks, recording electronic transfers and checks, set up vendors and expense accounts, and review the balance sheet and profit and loss.
Perform a January bank reconciliation in QuickBooks desktop, verify deposits and checks against the bank statement, adjust the beginning balance, and review the reconciliation reports.
Access QuickBooks backup files on the linked page and download them to support personal bookkeeping and accounting in QuickBooks Desktop Pro.
Enter February cash outflows from bank statements into QuickBooks Desktop Pro bookkeeping file using the check register, electronic transfers, and vendor setup; review balance sheet and profit and loss reports.
Perform a February bank reconciliation for a personal QuickBooks desktop account, verifying beginning and ending balances and matching bank statement transactions in a cash-based system.
Print February balance sheet as of a point in time and February income statement from the business account, compare January–February data, and save the reports for cross-file QuickBooks comparison.
Compare separate business and personal Quick Books files for the second month, examining intercompany transactions and how payments between business and personal accounts are accounted in equal and opposite ways.
Access a page containing QuickBooks backup files and download them to secure your desktop bookkeeping data.
Compare two QuickBooks files for business and personal accounts, generate balance sheet and profit and loss for January through February 2020, and analyze intercompany transfers, equity, and draws.
Record investments at cost and market value in QuickBooks for December, and break mutual funds into subaccounts for cost and unrealized gains/losses to show detailed portfolio value.
Record investments at cost and market value for February in separate investment accounts within QuickBooks, update investment statements, and adjust unrealized gains or losses on the balance sheet.
QuickBooks for personal bookkeeping, finance, and accounting. Enter personal financial data, create and analyze financial statements including personal balance sheet and income statements or profit & loss statement, & track important tax data.
The course will provide backup files that can be used to jump forward or to rework any component of the course. Backup files and the ability to use multiple QuickBooks files, in a similar way we use multiple Microsoft Word documents, is a HUGE benefit to learning QuickBooks and accounting that QuickBooks Desktop offers us. If our goal is to learn accounting concepts, bookkeeping, and or data input, we should take advantage of the use of backup files to improve our skills and gain new ones.
We will set up a new QuickBooks file explicitly designed for personal data entry and tracking, including a personalized chart of accounts.
The course will provide examples and practice problems to enter personal data into QuickBooks using a bank statement. We will provide example bank statements in PDF format that can be used to work the problem step by step along with instructional videos.
We will enter credit card data into QuickBooks from credit card statements. The course will provide PDF files of credit card statements.
The course will also set up a small QuickBooks business file as a comparison to the personal file, and to show how to account for intercompany or inter-QuickBooks file transactions. In other words, we will track transactions between the business and personal checking accounts in both the individual and business QuickBooks files.
We will track and record personal investments into QuickBooks, discussing various options and their pros and cons.
The course will discuss how to record and track home valuation in QuickBooks, as well as the tracking of home loans and the recording of payments that include both interest and principal.
We will cover the entering of W-2 wages into a personal QuickBooks file and the various methods we can use including breaking out the gross pay and the withholding amounts.
The course will discuss various methods for tracking and recording credit card payments and balances.
We will also discuss how to record and track the valuation of an automobile and how to enter and track prepayments like prepaid insurance