
This QuickBooks training course will show you how to completely manage every aspect of your personal home finances using QuickBooks. It's better than Quicken, or any other software, for keeping records of home finances.
These step by step QuickBooks tutorials show you how to handle anything individuals and families need to keep records of.
You will learn: QuickBooks basics file set up steps such as setting up the chart of accounts for and individual, not a company, and setting the QuickBooks preferences. Then you will learn how to record and track income from different sources, how to pay bills and track your checks and expenses. You can even see how QuickBooks sets budgets and compares budgets to actual spending for your personal financial decision-making needs. You can see pre-tax reports that can help with estates and trusts calculate the interest amount of mortgage and car payments. With the QuickBooks loan manager tool, you can set debt reduction goals to help pay off credit cards as well as track interest deductible expense. It's so great that anyone who watches will be able to sort checks by payee, search and find anything you need in your records very easily and find and fix any record keeping mistake very easily.
There are 'follow along files” for each lecture so you can follow step by step. This makes learning QuickBooks Easy and fun.
The course is made with QuickBooks desktop for windows. However, the ideas apply to QuickBooks online as well as QuickBooks for Macintosh and Enterprise solutions.
I'm right here for you if you have any questions or need support. I hope you learn well and enjoy the course!
-Mark
This video explains why QuickBooks is better for home personal financial record keeping than Quicken is.
This video will show you the steps to create a QuickBooks file for home finance and personal use
This video will show you the specific features in QuickBooks that will make home use easier and better. You will learn a lot about the QuickBooks Software in this video.
You will learn about managing the "chart of accounts". This is like the "general ledger". It's the foundation of personal record keeping
You will learn what Vendors are and how they relate to expenses. You will put the vendors on the vendor list and the expenses you pay in the chart of accounts. It's very very easy!!
In this lecture, you will put your income sources in to QuickBooks. Income Sources are the different places you get money coming in to you such as: Your weekday job, your weekend job, you stock dividends and so on
You will learn all about using QuickBooks reports for home finance. You will learn how best to utilize the icon bar.
You will learn how to record in to QuickBooks all of the different typse of income you get.
This video will show you how to record paying for expenses and paying for purchases
This video will show you how to record your personal credit card transactions
This video will show you how to find the results of the transactions you entered. It will help you fix mistakes
This is your practice project to see how well you learned!!
This video will show you how to use the special tools in QuickBooks to find anything you are looking for
You will learn how to set up a home budget and compare your spending to your budget
This video will show you how to use QuickBooks "time management" tools like the "reminders" window, the "to do" list and the calendar inside QuickBooks
The loan manager will help you manage your personal loans like your mortgage, car loan or credit card debt.
This video will use what you learn about the loan manager to set goals on how to repay loans or credit card debt
You will lean how to memorize transaction so that QuickBooks can enter them automatically for you OR just remind you when to enter them. It's usually used for recurring transaction.
Record an informal loan to a family member or friend as a current asset loan receivable; track repayments with deposits and reflect changes in the trial balance.
Use QuickBooks to run a finance company, set up chart of accounts, track principal balances and interest on loans, issue invoices, apply finance charges, manage payments, and monitor interest income.
Explore the optional advanced section of QuickBooks for personal finances, estates, and trusts, detailing how to align numbers, use the course file, and review financial statements.
Learn how personal financial statements mirror business reports by examining the profit and loss, balance sheet, and trial balance, capturing income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and net worth.
Learn how to use QuickBooks to compare profit and loss across time periods, distinguish normal operating income from other income such as gifts, and record losses like theft.
Learn to use QuickBooks class tracking to create a profit and loss by class, separating non-exempt income, exempt income, deductible expenses, and nondeductible expenses for estimated taxes.
Learn how to record salary and wages in QuickBooks for home finances, including gross pay, withholdings, and net pay, using the chart of accounts and bank reconciliation.
Record and adjust your income tax expense for refunds by creating a refund receivable, performing a year-end adjustment, and aligning 2016 numbers with 2017 deposits.
Correct net-pay records by December 31 to reflect gross pay on the W-2, using a journal entry that lists federal and state tax, Social Security, Medicare, and health insurance withholdings.
Calculate personal net worth by subtracting liabilities from assets on a personal balance sheet, and rename equity accounts in QuickBooks to reflect original net worth and net worth from income.
Record asset purchases using the asset account instead of expenses, determine asset value by future use, and see cash decrease while net worth stays the same on the balance sheet.
Record the sale of personal non-business assets in QuickBooks, classifying gains as other income and losses as other expenses, noting gains are taxable and losses are not deductible.
Explore how to record unrecorded assets and liabilities with adjusting journal entries in QuickBooks to reflect true net worth on your balance sheet, including historical cost and footnotes.
Learn the mark smolan method for recording retirement fund transactions, applying dual entries to income statement and balance sheet for contributions and withdrawals in retirement accounts.
Complete the home finance practical final project using the Excel file in the resource tab, which includes instructions, transactions, the transaction journal, and the resulting reports.
Advance your home finance skills by learning QuickBooks Desktop Bank Feeds and importing transactions for faster entry, and QuickBooks Desktop Bank Reconciliation and proving correctness to verify your books.
Would you like to go quickly from beginner to expert for everything that anyone could need when using QuickBooks for persona, non-business home finances? This ground-breaking new course will any individual, family estate or trust, anything they could need when using QuickBooks Desktop for financial record keeping.
This ground-breaking QuickBooks training course will show you how to completely manage every aspect of your personal home finances using QuickBooks Desktop. It's better than Quicken, or any other software, for keeping records of home finances.
These easy, step-by-step QuickBooks tutorials show you how to handle anything individuals and families need to keep financial records of. You will have all your finances organized and managed smoothly with the help of QuickBooks. Learning what you need to know from this fun and easy course, will give you the ability to asses your financial position and see how well you are doing over time.
You don’t need any prior knowledge of: accounting, computers or QuickBooks to start studying this video series and before you know it, this course will give you everything you need for you to manage your money and even help manage your time! There are a variety of features in QuickBooks that will make personal financial management skills work perfectly for you.
You will learn how to:
Set Up A QuickBooks File For Personal Home Finances
Manage And Track Personal Home Expenses
Manage And Track Income From Different Jobs And Investments
Record And Manage Credit Card Transactions And Statements
Make Personal Home Budgets
Calculate And Track Interest Paid And Received
Find And Fix Data Entry Mistakes In QuickBooks
Manage And Master The QuickBooks Register Window
Determine Mortgage Payment Components
Set Goals For Debt Reduction
Use The QuickBooks Calendar, Reminders And To Do Lists, To Manage Your Financial Affairs
Record Memorized / Reoccurring Transactions
And.. as a new bonus section to this amazing course, …
Make Personal Financial Statements
Asses Net Worth Of A Person, Estate Or Trust
Record Taxable And Non-Taxable Income
Record Asset Purchases And Sales
Record Salary, Wages, Tax Expenses For Withholdings And W-2 Adjustments
Recording Retirement Fund Transactions
And Many More!!
There are “follow along files” for each lecture so you can follow step by step. This makes learning QuickBooks easy and fun.
The course is made with QuickBooks desktop for windows. However, the ideas apply to QuickBooks online as well as QuickBooks for Macintosh and Enterprise solutions.
I'm right here for you if you have any questions or need support. I hope you learn well and enjoy the course!
-Mark