QuickBooks Pro-Business & Personal-One QuickBooks File
What you'll learn
- How to track both business and personal financial, bookkeeping, and tax informaiton in one QuickBooks file using class tracking
- How to use the QuickBooks Pro Desktop 2019 feature of class tracking
- How to set up a QuickBooks files designed for both business and personal use
- How to create a chart of accounts for both business and personal use
- How to enter both business and personal financial data to QuickBooks from a bank statements separating the transactions using class tracking
- How to generate business and personal financial statements using class tracking
- How to track and enter personal financial investments into QuickBooks
- How to track the value of a home and the related loan
- How to enter personal W-2 income into QuickBooks including breaking out gross pay and withholding amounts
- How to enter credit card payments and track credit card liabilities
- How to track the value of a personal automobile
- How to account for prepayments and why it helps with budgeting and measuring performance
Requirements
- It would be best to have a copy of QuickBooks Pro or other Desktop version
Description
Both business and personal financial, bookkeeping, and tax information in one QuickBooks file using class tracking.
This course will demonstrate how to use the class tracking feature in QuickBooks Pro Desktop 2019, applying the feature to tracking both business and personal financial information in one QuickBooks file.
Note that tracking both business and personal data in one QuickBooks file will not be the best option for many businesses but is a good option for small businesses who want one location to track and analyze financial data and generate financial reports that can be used for tax preparation, budgeting, and business planning.
We will set up a QuickBooks file designed for both business and personal use, discussing how to use the class tracking feature and creating a chart of accounts.
The course will enter financial data from a bank statement that has both business and personal transactions, separating the financial transactions using the class tracking feature as we enter the data into QuickBooks.
We will compare the method of using one QuickBooks account for both business and personal data to using two separate QuickBooks files, one for personal and one for business, listing and describing pros and cons of each method and when they would be best applied.
The course will also discuss how to track personal balance sheet items and provide practical examples and alternative methods.
We will discuss how to record and track personal investments in Quickbooks.
The course will discuss how to enter financial data for the value of a home, the related home loan, and the mortgage payments that include both interest and principal portions.
We will discuss how to enter W-2 wages into QuickBooks to track our income, including a method for breaking out gross pay from the withholding amounts.
The course will cover different methods for tracking credit card balances and credit card payments.
We will also discuss methods for tracking the value of an automobile and the concept of prepaid expenses including how to record prepaid insurance.
Who this course is for:
- Small business owners who want to track business, personal, and tax data in one QuickBooks files
- Bookkeepers who want to learn how to track personal and business data in one file
- Anybody who want to use the class tracking feature using QuickBooks Desktop
Instructor
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Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his.
Mr. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. He has been a practicing CPA since 2005. Mr. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA).
Mr. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software.
In addition to working as an accountant, teaching, and developing courses Mr. Steele has helped create an accounting website at accountinginstruction, a YouTube channel called Accounting Instruction, Help, and How Too, and has developed supplemental resources including a Facebook Page, Twitter Page, and Podcasts that can be found on I-tunes, Stitcher, or Soundcloud. Mr. Steele's teaching philosophy is to make content applicable, understandable, and accessible.
Adult learners are looking for application when they learn new skills. In other words, learners want to be able to apply skills in the real world to help their lives. Mr. Steele’s formal accounting education, practical work experience, and substantial teaching experience allow him to create a curriculum that combines traditional accounting education with practical knowledge and application. He accomplishes the goals of making accounting useful and applicable by combining theory with real-world software like Excel and QuickBooks.
Many courses teach QuickBooks data entry or Excel functions but are not providing the real value learners want. Real value is a result of learning technical skills like applications, in conjunction with specific goals, like accounting goals, including being able to interpret the performance of a business.
Mr. Steele makes knowledge understandable by breaking down complex concepts into smaller units with specific objectives and using step by step learning processes to understand each unit. Many accounting textbooks cram way too much information into a course, making it impossible to understand any unit fully. By breaking the content down into digestible chunks, we can move forward much faster.
Mr. Steele also makes use of color association in both presentations and Excel worksheets, a learning tool often overlooked in the accounting field, but one that can vastly improve the speed and comprehension of learning accounting concepts.
The material is also made understandable through the application of concepts learned. Courses will typically demonstrate the accounting concepts and then provide an Excel worksheet or practice problems to work through the concepts covered. The practice problems will be accompanied by an instructional video to work through the problem in step by step format. Excel worksheets will be preformatted, usually including an answer tab that shows the completed problem, and a practice tab where learners can complete the problem along with a step by step presentation video.
Mr. Steele makes learning accounting accessible by making use of technology and partnering with teaching platforms that have a vision of spreading knowledge like Udemy.