You’ve made it to the $0.00 difference on your reconciliation screen in QuickBooks Online. That green checkmark is tempting. But before you click Finish now, there’s one more step you can’t afford to skip: reviewing your open items. Open items are the remaining transactions that haven’t been checked off as cleared during the reconciliation. Even […]
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Closing the books is a fundamental part of the accounting cycle. It ensures that your financial records are not only complete, but are accurate, and even compliant. It also sets you up for timely reporting and thorough analysis. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the key steps, focusing on reconciling the balance sheet
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Add Transactions in QuickBooks Online Now that you’ve carefully worked through your unmatched and uncategorized bank feed activity, it’s time to add the remaining transactions to your General Ledger (GL). This final step ensures your financial data is complete, accurate, and organized, all without manual data entry. Let’s dive into this important step and everything
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QuickBooks for Lawyers: CRM Integration Accounting is complicated, especially for law firms. But client relationships can be just as complex. Fortunately, QuickBooks can help you manage both of these things. There are many advantages to using QuickBooks for lawyers (time savings, improved accuracy, automation, etc.), but one often overlooked advantage is CRM integration. Customer relationship
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In our last blog post, we explored how to use banking filters in QuickBooks Online (QBO) to categorize transactions efficiently by leveraging matches, rules, and suggestions. However, once these automated features have done their job, we’re often left with some transactions that still need to be addressed. In this post, we’ll walk through the next
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Don’t Let “Naked” Expenses Cost You During an IRS Audit When it comes to IRS audits, one of the most common reasons taxpayers lose out on deductions is simple but avoidable: lack of documentation. You might think that a bank or credit card statement is enough to prove business expenses, but the IRS sees
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Managing your bank transactions efficiently is a crucial part of keeping your books clean and accurate. QuickBooks Online (QBO) simplifies this process with its bank feed feature, allowing you to automatically import, categorize, and reconcile transactions from your linked bank and credit card accounts. However, to get the most out of the bank feed, you
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Bank Feed Skills for Closing the Books In previous blog posts, we’ve covered the essential knowledge required to close the books. Now, it’s time to put that knowledge into action by mastering the skills necessary to efficiently close the books. We are going to focus on advanced topics related to the QuickBooks Online (QBO)
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The Importance of Recurring Transactions For many businesses, financial transactions are repeated month after month. In fact, it’s estimated that about 80% of transactions fall into this category. Instead of manually entering the same data every time, QuickBooks Online (QBO) provides two primary ways to automate this process: Bank Rules – These automate transaction categorization
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When using QuickBooks Online (QBO), it’s easy to assume that most transactions fit neatly into two categories: sales transactions or purchase transactions. However, several types of transactions don’t fall into either category, yet they’re essential for maintaining accurate financial records. These Special Transactions include bank deposits, journal entries, and zero-dollar transactions. Let’s break down these
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