Module 1: Setup & Settings

• Setting up your QuickBooks® file – get this right from the beginning to save future headaches!
• A review of the software settings and the best way to set them up
• Setting up your “chart of accounts”
• My #1 tip for keeping your QuickBooks® secure
• Why and how to backup your QuickBooks® file automatically

Module 2: Sales Tax, Products/Services, Classes, Attachments

• Put sales tax calculation, collection, and tracking on auto-pilot. Get this right from the start!
• Add and track the products and services you sell
• Create “product categories”
• Learn how to use “locations” and “classes” in order to categorize your transactions
• Attach files to transactions for better record-keeping.

Module 3: Vendors, Accounts Payable, & Inventory

• Setup new vendors
• Set vendors up for 1099 tracking to save time and money at tax time
• Enter credit card expenses
• Enter invoices and record payment for vendors
• Create Purchase Orders and receiving reports
• Use POs to quickly match and enter the corresponding vendor invoice
• Track the quantity and cost of inventory (and cost of goods sold)

Module 4: Customers, Accounts Receivable, & Estimates/Proposals

• Setup your customers and clients
• How to enter daily or weekly sales summaries
• Record refunds and credits to customers
• Create invoices that can automatically be emailed to customers
• Send invoices in a format that customers can actually use to pay you by credit card or bank transfer
• Record receiving payment from customers against their invoices
• Create estimates or proposals
• Use those estimates/proposals to create invoices with just a couple clicks!

Module 5: Banking and Reconciliations

• How to balance and reconcile your bank accounts including tips and tricks to make it easier
• Record bank deposits in QuickBooks®
• “Write” checks out of QuickBooks® or enter checks you’ve handwritten
• Print checks from QuickBooks®
• Record transfers between accounts
• Import transactions from your bank to speed up your bookkeeping and improve accuracy

Module 6: Reporting

• Overview of the report center and guide of the reports QuickBooks® offers
• Introduction to reading the P&L and Balance Sheet
• Using and customizing the P&L and Balance Sheet
• My favorite customizations to quickly assess company or budget performance from the P&L

Module 7: Automation

• Never waste your time manually re-creating a custom report over and over again!
• Setup regular expenses to enter automatically without even having to think about it
• Get your daily sales summaries or customer invoices 95% automated so all you have to enter is quantities
• Set QuickBooks® to automatically create and even email invoices to customers

Module 8: Payroll

• How to add payroll to QuickBooks® and get it setup
• Add new employees quickly and easily
• Run payroll for hourly or salary employees with different taxes or benefits
• Record payment of payroll taxes or benefits
• Use QuickBooks® to help prepare payroll tax forms

Module 9: Journal Entries and Budgeting

• How to record Journal Entries in QuickBooks®
• How to add your Budget to the QuickBooks software
• Keep track of your actual performance annd compare it to your budget

Module 10: Loans and Fixed Assets

• Learn how to set up various loans such as a long-term loan or a line of credit
• Record monthly loan statements with principle and interest
• Automate some of your monthly loan statement entry
• Record the purchase of a fixed asset like a building, land, equipment, or a vehicle the RIGHT way
• Record and automate your monthly depreciation on those fixed assets