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With this Learn QuickBooks® 2007 training tutorial you will learn:
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Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three

Section 1 - Introduction

  • Download Practice Lesson Files

Section 2 - The EasyStep Interview

  • QuickBooks tutorials
  • Explore QuickBooks features
  • Create new company icon
  • Open or restore an existing company icon
  • EasyStep Interview
  • Converting Quicken® or Peachtree®
  • Find an accountant
  • Skip EasyStep Interview
  • Navigation buttons
  • Entering general information for the company
  • Entering multiple company names
  • Enter fiscal year end
  • Importance of accountant
  • Selecting business type
  • Enter company name
  • Legal name of company
  • Select type of business
  • Save company information
  • Add income and expense accounts
  • Determining number of users for QuickBooks
  • Record sales
  • Online sales options
  • Set up administrators
  • Set up users and passwords
  • Sales tax options
  • Customer billing options
  • Sales receipts
  • Invoices
  • Statements
  • Progress invoicing
  • Payroll options
  • W-2 employees
  • 1099 contractors
  • Estimates features
  • Entering bills and payments
  • Print checks
  • Inventory tracking
  • Create Chart of Accounts
  • Default accounts set up by QuickBooks
  • Add bank accounts
  • Time tracking
  • Credit and debit cards
  • Selecting start date

Section 3 - Adding Accounts

  • Automatic update screen
  • Automatic update defined
  • Turning off the update feature
  • Navigation options
  • Menu bar
  • Icon bars
  • Section screens
  • Menu bar defined
  • Icon bar defined
  • Section Center
  • Fly-over explanation
  • Customer Center
  • Account balances section
  • Customize home page
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Account defined
  • Build chart of accounts first
  • Delete an account
  • Setting up account with numbers vs. text
  • Consistency of names
  • Menu buttons
  • Add a new account – Bank
  • Add a new account – Credit card
  • Tax-line mapping option
  • Enter opening balance of account
  • Enter opening date of account
  • Download Practice Lesson Files
  • Sort Chart of Accounts
  • General Ledger
  • Opening Balance Equity account

Section 4 - Adding Customers and Vendors

  • Create customer list
  • Job list defined
  • Naming conventions for customer list
  • Different billing and shipping addresses
  • Add customers to customer list
  • Manually updating changes
  • Check credit
  • Setting terms offered
  • Preferred send method
  • Set up sales tax items
  • Create sales tax groups
  • Quick Add option for items
  • Price level field defined
  • Create price level
  • Create custom fields
  • Practice Lesson File to add customers
  • Edit customer list
  • Entering vendor list
  • Vendors needing 1099 forms
  • Practice Lesson File to add vendors

Section 5 - Setting QuickBooks Preferences

  • Preferences defined
  • My preferences vs. Company preferences
  • Classes defined
  • Class tracking
  • Accounting preferences
  • Bills preferences
  • Checking account preferences
  • Desktop View preferences
  • Finance Charges preferences
  • General preferences
  • Integrated Applications preferences
  • Jobs & Estimates preferences
  • Payroll & Employees preferences
  • Items & Inventory preferences
  • Reminders preferences
  • Cash-based vs. Accrual-based accounting defined
  • Reports & Graphs preferences
  • Sales & Customers preferences
  • Sales tax preferences
  • Send Forms preferences
  • Service Connection preferences
  • Spelling preferences
  • Tax: 1099 Forms preferences
  • Time Tracking preferences
  • Adding users
  • Changing permissions of current users
  • Designate administrator

Section 6 - Item Lists

  • Items defined
  • Merchandise
  • Taxes
  • Fees
  • Discounts
  • Service charges
  • Large vs. small inventories
  • Need for Items list on invoices
  • Opening the Items list
  • Sales tax
  • Prepayment
  • Late fees
  • Discounts
  • Unique names for items
  • Item types
  • Service items
  • Inventory and non-inventory parts
  • Other charge as delivery and service fees
  • Group type
  • Discount type
  • Payment
  • Creating new item
  • When to enter items on the Items list
  • Set tax code
  • Set income account
  • Check Spelling in Items list
  • Create custom field in Items list
  • Customer and Vendor Profile lists
  • Terms list
  • Customer Message lists
  • Price Level list
  • Subitems list
  • Discount items
  • Parent item
  • Practice Lesson File to add items
  • Correcting mistakes

Section 7 - Managing QuickBooks

  • Customize icon bar
  • Add separator to icon bar
  • Showing icons with and without text
  • Add icon to icon bar
  • Need for backup copies
  • Creating backups
  • Network drive
  • CD
  • Zip drive
  • Flash drive
  • Floppy drive
  • Internet
  • Manual backup vs. automatic backup
  • Backup copy vs. portable company file
  • Doing a manual backup
  • Backup options
  • Verify Data Integrity feature
  • Set defaults for backup
  • Reminder
  • Location
  • Date and time stamp options
  • Schedule automatic backup
  • Automatic backup options
  • Delete old backup files
  • Automatic Backup folder on computer
  • Back up to remote locations
  • Define scheduled backups
  • Set an automatic backup schedule
  • Computer needs to be on, but not QuickBooks
  • Set password
  • Naming methods of automatic backups
  • Need for two backup copies
  • Off-site storage of backup
  • Restore backup file
  • Delete data file

Section 1 - Introduction

  • Download Practice Lesson Files

Section 2 - Invoicing

  • Creating invoices
  • Customer payments defined
  • Invoices
  • Sales receipts
  • Statements
  • Invoices
  • Service or product items
  • Quantity and price of items
  • Track sales tax
  • Estimates
  • Sales orders
  • Sales receipt
  • Payment at time of service
  • Shows quantity and cost
  • Retail business
  • Track sales tax
  • Statement
  • Provide services throughout a time period but bill monthly
  • Sales by Item Summary reports
  • Profit and Loss report
  • Production invoice template
  • Elements of an invoice
  • Fill out an invoice
  • Assign invoice numbers
  • Change payment terms
  • Shipping methods
  • Change preferences
  • Charging sales tax on an item
  • Add new item from invoice
  • Entering customer message
  • Creating new customer message
  • Memorizing invoices
  • Automatically enter memorized invoices
  • Spell-checking invoices
  • Edit memorized invoices
  • Print invoices
  • Practice Lesson File to add invoices
  • Find invoices
  • Edit invoices
  • Delete vs. void invoices

Section 3 - Managing Customer Accounts

  • Send invoices
  • Select forms to send
  • E-mail invoices
  • Print batch
  • Print invoices
  • Print labels
  • Select invoices to print
  • Set invoice printing options
  • Issuing credits and refunds
  • Numbering invoices and credits
  • Applying credits to customer accounts
  • Issue refund check
  • Creating sales receipt
  • Generating account statements
  • Creating statements for selected customers
  • Customers with zero balances
  • Access finance charges

Section 4 - Receiving Payments

  • Receive Payments icon
  • Balance Forward bookkeeping defined
  • Default method
  • Payment to oldest invoice first
  • First in, First out bookkeeping
  • Open Item bookkeeping
  • Apply payment to invoices
  • Dealing with underpayments
  • Apply credits with payment
  • Apply discount with payment
  • Applying payments with credit card
  • Accepting credit cards online
  • Applying payment to a specific invoice
  • Applying discount to payment
  • Viewing payments in Accounts Receivable account
  • Print credit memo

Section 5 - Making Deposits

  • Undeposited Funds account
  • Making deposits using check register
  • Creating sales receipt for daily sales
  • Creating Over and Short accounts for receipts
  • Create sales receipt for overages or shortages
  • Make deposits from dialog box
  • Creating deposit slip
  • Preview deposit slip
  • Cash Back option on deposit slip

Section 6 - Entering and Paying Bills

  • Enter received bills
  • Enter bills on billing form
  • Entering items as expenses
  • Editing item on bill
  • Recalculating bills
  • Practice Lesson File to add bills
  • Select bills to be paid
  • Sort bills
  • Set discount and credit information
  • Pay bills
  • Reminders for checks to print
  • Write and print checks
  • Process a payment without a bill
  • Using the check form
  • Entering handwritten checks
  • Paying state sales tax
  • Pay Sales Tax option
  • Manage sales tax window

Section 7 - Making Adjustments

  • Transfer funds between accounts
  • Online Banking icon
  • Setup Interview for online banking
  • Making adjustment for bad checks
  • Deduct amount from account
  • Remove payment from invoice
  • Record bank charges
  • Void deposit if only one check
  • Making journal entry for bad checks
  • Practice Lesson File to record bad checks
  • Backing out discounts for bad checks
  • Double-entry bookkeeping defined
  • Deposits = Debits
  • Writing checks = Credits
  • Creating custom report on sales
  • Create invoice for bad check charge
  • Create new item for bad check charge
  • Generate statement with bad check charge
  • Deduct bank charges from customer account

Section 8 - Setting Up Payroll

  • Methods of dealing with payroll
  • QuickBooks payroll services
  • Outside payroll services
  • In-house payroll
  • Set payroll preferences
  • QuickBooks payroll services
  • Access to tax rate database
  • Software updates
  • Federal tax forms
  • Payroll tips
  • Employee Center
  • Select payroll options
  • Manual paycheck entry options
  • Employees navigator icon
  • Using Payroll Setup
  • Setting up payroll taxes
  • List of what is needed to set up payroll
  • Set up benefits items
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Health premium pretax
  • Retirement benefits
  • Vacation pay
  • Sick pay
  • Select state to pay payroll taxes
  • Set up wages and payroll Items
  • Set up tax liabilities
  • Setting up benefits payees
  • Entering employee information
  • Hourly rates and salary
  • Setting employee’s vacation and sick time
  • Add employee cards
  • Practice Lesson File to add employees
  • Direct deposit
  • Set up payroll tax information
  • Enter paycheck history for the year/quarter
  • Year-to-date payroll information

Section 9 - Processing Payroll

  • Preparing payroll checks
  • Enter hours
  • Print paychecks

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Tracking Accounts Receivable

  • Applying finance charges
  • Review preferences for finance charges
  • Grace period for finance charges
  • Calculating charge on due date or invoice date
  • Assess finance charges menu
  • Reminder to access credits
  • Checking collection history
  • Calculating a new amount
  • Mark Invoices to be printed option
  • Open Accounts Receivable account
  • Creating an Aging report
  • Aging defined
  • Detail Aging report defined
  • Summary Aging report defined
  • Adjusting the Aging report
  • Refresh reports
  • Set time interval in an Aging report
  • Sorting reports
  • Setting advanced options for Aging reports
  • Revert reports to default settings
  • Setting filters on reports
  • Creating headers and footers
  • Creating custom reports
  • Summary view of the Aging report
  • Memorizing reports
  • Printing reports
  • View of reports
  • Customer Balance Summary report defined
  • Customer Balance Detail report defined
  • Open Invoices report defined
  • Collections report defined
  • Accounts Receivable graph defined
  • Unbilled costs by jobs report defined
  • Transaction List by Customer report defined
  • Item Price List report defined
  • Accounts Payable report defined

Section 3 - Running Reports

  • Creating Trial Balance report
  • Filter Trial Balance report
  • Set Report Display options
  • Using Non-zero option on reports
  • Memorize Trial Balance reports
  • Creating Balance Sheets
  • Balance sheet defined
  • Balance sheet summary defined
  • Balance sheet detailed defined
  • Determine equity from balance sheet
  • Net Worth graph
  • Transactions by Account report defined
  • Profit and Loss statement defined
  • Income statement defined
  • Figuring net loss or income for a period
  • COGS defined
  • Profit and Loss Year-to-Date report defined
  • Accrual-based accounting
  • Statement of Cash Flow report defined
  • Creating accountant’s review copy
  • Accountant’s review copy defined
  • What can and can’t be done while data is locked
  • Canceling the accountant’s review copy
  • Importing the accountant’s changes

Section 4 - Making Journal Entries

  • When to make a journal entry
  • Nonstandard transaction
  • Tracking depreciation
  • Change account structure
  • Depreciation expense account defined
  • Creating parent account for assets and depreciation
  • Fixed access accounts defined
  • Create new access subaccount
  • Create new liability subaccount
  • Journal entries defined
  • Asset depreciation formulas defined
  • Make general journal entries
  • Balance Sheet report
  • Number journal entries
  • Making journal entries to separate accounts
  • Moving entries into assets and depreciation accounts
  • Crediting and debiting accounts
  • Changing structure of Income account

Section 5 - Reconciling Bank Statements

  • Opening balance discrepancies
  • Adjusting entry to bank account
  • Reconcile bank account
  • Ending balance on bank statement
  • Cleared checks and deposits
  • Looking for errors while reconciling accounts
  • Using the bank register to locate errors
  • Making changes during reconciliation
  • Edit a transaction during reconciliation
  • Find a transaction during reconciliation
  • Unmark a transaction during reconciliation
  • Missing Checks report
  • Making adjusting entry to amend errors
  • Reconcile Adjustment dialog box
  • Print Reconciliation report
  • Opening balance adjustment
  • Cleared transactions defined

Section 6 - Tax-Related Issues

  • Making federal payroll tax deposits
  • Federal payroll tax deposits defined
  • Frequency of payroll taxes
  • Transfer funds for taxes to payroll account
  • Process payroll liabilities
  • Print check for payroll tax payment
  • 8109 form deposit
  • IRS forms
  • Hide zero balances
  • State taxes
  • 941 form reports
  • Prepare 940 form
  • Quarterly Employer’s Record of Tax Payments form
  • Paper requirements for forms
  • Printing tax forms
  • Filing tax forms
  • Preparing annual tax reports
  • State unemployment reports
  • 940 Form reports
  • Preparing W2 forms
  • W2 form defined
  • W3 defined
  • Printing tax forms
  • 1099 forms
  • 1099 Form Summary report
  • Corporation tax form
  • S Corporations tax form
  • Officer compensation
  • Officer salary setup

Section 7 - Year-End Procedures

  • Accountant’s copy
  • Year-end journal entries
  • Running reports for fiscal year
  • Profit and Loss reports
  • Balance Sheet report
  • Statement of Cash Flow report
  • Balance Sheet as a to-do list
  • Books closed
  • Editing books after closing books
  • No posting new transactions or editing transactions
  • Set closing date
  • Setting up users and password for closing
  • Making year-end backups
  • Condensing QuickBooks files
  • Clean up company data wizard
  • Clearing unused accounts, customers, vendors, and items
  • What should and should not be condensed
  • Condensing procedures
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