Advanced Accounting Topics Using Quickbooks Desktop

Going beyond the basics with Quickbooks

This course builds upon my introductory course: Accounting Fundamentals Using Quickbooks. I cover many advanced topics that many people have trouble with, based on my teaching experience. I cover such topics as how and when to create journal entries, creating custom reports in Quickbooks and then exporting the data to Excel to create a pivot table report, how to create a custom invoice template, how to use bank feeds to import your transactions into Quickbooks. I also go over tricky transactions such as how to handle bounced checks, customer prepayments, zero checks and how to record outside payroll.

The emphasis is on explaining the concepts behind the procedures. I believe that if you understand the concepts, you can figure out the procedure yourself. The concepts will apply no matter what software program you use.

This course is geared toward the regular user of Quickbooks; I assume that you have a basic knowledge of Accounting and Quickbooks. Specifically, I assume that you know about debits and credits, P&L and Balance Sheet reports and that you know your way around Quickbooks. I assume you know how to create items and basic forms such as invoices and bills.