Mastering QuickBooks Essential Curriculum

        Serious about learning QuickBooks? Our Essential
         Curriculum teaches you QuickBooks from A to Z!

  This curriculum includes our Mastering QuickBooks Level 1 and Level 2 classes. You start
  with the basics… like moving around in QuickBooks and entering daily transactions. When
  you finish, you’ll be a confident user that can enter difficult transactions, find and fix
  mistakes, and know that your QuickBooks numbers are correct. If you truly want to
  Master QuickBooks, this is the curriculum for you!

  
• 21+ hours of comprehensive training (4 full days)
  
• 3 comprehensive learning manuals
  
• QuickLearn lets you practice what you learn…while you learn
  
• QuickSearch lets you learn only what you need to know
  
• 28 hours of CPE

                    Should you enroll in this curriculum?

  ENROLL if:
  You use QuickBooks as a fundamental part of your daily job. You are the primary person
  responsible for QuickBooks in your organization and the company relies on you for all
  phases of accounting.

  DO NOT ENROLL if:
  You do not have formal training in accounting (such as high school or college level
  accounting courses). If you do not have accounting training, we strongly recommend
  the Ultimate Curriculum.

              The equivalent of 4 days classroom training!

  Note: The Mastering QuickBooks Essential Curriculum
  represents 4 full days of training. Each day is packed full of
  meaningful topics!

  Day 1

  Getting Started

• Setting up your company
• Moving around QuickBooks...EFFICIENTLY
• Customize your Home page
• Getting help...FAST

  Everyday Transactions

• Selling: invoices, sales receipts, payments, deposits, credit memos, statement charges, linking to 3^rd party software, and customer statements
• Buying: bills, bill payments, checks, bills vs. checks, and credit memos
• Inventory: purchase orders, receiving items, adjusting inventory
• Sales Taxes: setting up, adjusting, paying, and reporting sales taxes
• Banking: reconciling bank accounts and locating discrepancies

  Special Transactions

• Giving and receiving refunds
• Voiding vs. deleting a check
• Applying credit memos

  Tips & Tricks

• Special "Window" tricks
• Cleaning up lists (delete, hide and merge)
• Sorting and customizing lists
• "Collapsing" financial statements
• Showing P&L by month, or as a percent of income

  Understanding Accounting

• Really understanding your financial statements
• Setting up the chart of accounts
• Changing and fixing the chart of accounts
• Cash vs. Accrual accounting
• Using general journal entries
• Creating and using subaccounts
• Using the Company Snapshot feature

  Day 2

  Payroll

• Setting up payroll
• Entering year-to-date payroll information
• Setting up employees
• Creating payroll items
• Tracking and invoicing time
• Processing paychecks
• Modifying paychecks
• Making tax deposits
• Preparing tax forms

  Working with Reports

• Adding, deleting, resizing, and reordering columns
• Filtering and formatting reports
• Saving reports and creating memorized report groups

  Advanced Features

• Using petty cash
• Setting up QuickBooks on a network (multi-user)
• Password protecting QuickBooks
• Updating QuickBooks
• Working with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
• Closing the books
• Finding transactions FAST and other time saving features
• Working with the accountant's review
• Protecting your QuickBooks data

  Tips & Tricks

• Keyboard shortcuts
• Tailoring company preferences
• Creating custom invoices and other forms
• Adding logos and custom fields to forms

  Tricky Transactions

• Using online banking
• Handling bounced checks...easily
• Entering customer down payments/deposits
• Creating automatic transactions (memorizing transactions)
• Using credit cards

  Day 3

  Customizing QuickBooks (make QuickBooks REALLY work for you!)

• Modifying important preferences
• Customizing your home page
• Modifying the iconbar
• Creating and using custom fields
• Using account numbers
• Using classes (for departments, locations, etc.)

  Sales Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds

• Setting up price levels
• Sales orders/backorders
• Invoicing for billable costs
• Complex sales tax situations
• Creating and using estimates
• Progress invoicing
• Finding and fixing typical errors in accounts receivable
• 2 methods for handling customer deposits
• Writing off bad debts
• Customer under- and over-payments
• Transferring customer credits
• Working with multiple accounts receivable accounts
• Entering retail sales

  Purchase Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds

• Purchasing and accounting for fixed assets
• Entering company loans with the Loan Manager
• Lines of credi
t
• Typical bill payment errors
• Preparing 1099’s at year-end
• Employee and owner purchases
• Prepaid expenses
• Vendor deposits
• Vendor refunds
• Barter transactions
• Voiding prior period checks
• Using the cash flow projection tool

  Items & Inventory

• Expenses vs. Items…which do you use?
• Inventory limitations
• Inventory adjustments
• Creating group items
• Working with inventory assemblies
• Units of measure

Advanced Tricks

• When should you start over with a new file?
• The limitations of QuickBooks
• Handling bank reconciliation errors
• Using multiple currencies
• Fixing errors in all areas of QuickBooks... there are so many we can't list them all!

  Completing Set Up

• Completing setup: opening balances, completing lists, special accounts, opening balance equity, and payroll setup
• 2 methods for entering transaction history
• Checking the setup…is it right?

  Day 4

  Payroll Transactions, Tricks, and Workarounds

• Correcting the setup of payroll items
• Adding difficult payroll items
• Using payroll effectively for job costing
• Voiding/Reprinting paychecks
• Handling special payroll deductions and payments
• Preparing and adjusting W-2s
• Employee loans
• Setting up and tracking workers compensation insurance
• Net to Gross paycheck calculations

  Mastering QuickBooks Reporting

• Advanced report customization
• Report types in QuickBooks…what you really need to know!
• Importing and exporting reports
• Using special fields to improve reports
• Troubleshooting reports filters
• Memorizing reports and creating report groups
• Adding reports to the iconbar
• Powerful techniques for modifying reports in Excel
• Generating custom summary and transaction reports
• Graphing QuickBooks data in Excel
• Budgets and forecasts
• Combining financial statements
• Extending the QuickBooks database
• Using advanced fields for reports (customer type, vendor type, job
type, custom fields,
and more)

  Unlocking the Power of QuickBooks

• Deleting and archiving old transactions in your file
• Remote access (to access your company file through the internet)
• Automating backups
• Tricks to make QuickBooks run faster and more efficiently
• Corrupt data files…how, why, and what to do
• Verify and rebuild company files

  Importing and Exporting

• Exchanging data between QuickBooks files
• Importing and exporting lists
• Importing and exporting customized forms
• Using reports with multiple company files
• Exchanging data between QuickBooks and other programs
• Working with integrated applications
• Using special Excel import feature

  Secrets Your Accountant Should Know

• Common client mistakes and their fixes
• Closing the books
• Getting information to and from your accountant
• Finding changes made to closed periods
• Understanding and using retained earnings
• Discovering quirks of QuickBooks journal entries
• Using reversing journal entries
• Year-end procedures
• Using the Audit Trail and other reports to find errors
• Cash basis financial statements (what is QuickBooks doing?)
• Special reports for your accountant
• What you REALLY need to know to become an advanced user!
• Little known power features in all areas of QuickBooks

  And much more!

        Real Customers…Real Words…Real World Training’s
              Mastering QuickBooks Essential Curriculum

  Does the job - this training is right on target.
  D. Wilhelm

  The software is what needed for any person who wants to start a business.
  L. Fuller

  Loved the format and enthusiasm of the instructor Fred Maxwell from Day-One. The
  courses are organized, touch on a variety of topics and are easy to start and stop which is
  great for self-paced learner situation.
  L. Jue

  This course provides information on both the basic functions of QuickBooks and some
  lesser known tricks of the system.
  C Durand

  As a small business owner, this will simplify things that are intimidating to me.
  A Chow-Jones