K2's QuickBooks For Accountants

Overview

You could pay $0 for this course!

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 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 like 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, use the audit trail, customize reports, export reports to Excel, and extend QuickBooks' usefulness with tools such as the Fixed Asset Manager and Loan Manager.

This course qualifies for reimbursement through the state’s Workforce Training Express Fund. Firms/companies with fewer than 50 staff can be reimbursed up to 100% of the cost of training and firms/companies with 50-100 employees can be reimbursed up to 50% of the cost of training. You must register for the course and apply for reimbursement through the Workforce Training Express Fund website a minimum of three weeks prior to the start of the course to be eligible. The course code for this program is C-2985. To learn more, click here or contact Julia Ekelund at jekelund@masscpas.org.

Highlights

• New features in QuickBooks Desktop and Online
• Enhancing internal controls in QuickBooks-based environments
• Improving financial and operational reporting when using QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online
• Best practices for setting up companies

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of basic QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online operations

Designed For

Accountants and other business professionals who use or support clients who use QuickBooks or QuickBooks Online

Objectives

• 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 Desktop 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

Preparation

None