Category Archives: QuickBooks 2013 in Depth

How to Add or Edit Multiple Items at Once in QuickBooks

Adding or modifying several list items in a single QuickBooks list can be a daunting task when you have to work with one list item at a time. With the Add/Edit Multiple List Entries feature, shown in the image below, … Continue reading

How to Use Group Items in QuickBooks

New for QuickBooks 2013, you can now include up to 50 different items in a Group Item. In previous versions of QuickBooks you could only have up to 20 individual items in a Group Item. Unlike working with assemblies, when … Continue reading

How to Handle Vendor Inventory Returns in QuickBooks

Perhaps after receiving the returned inventory from your customer, you find the product was not manufactured to your specifications, and needs to be returned to the vendor. Handling these types of returns properly is important and can affect these financial … Continue reading

Selling Inventory in QuickBooks

For your business to survive, you need to sell your products (or services) to customers. The next important task, discussed below, is how easy it is to prepare invoices for your customers in QuickBooks. First, it might be helpful for … Continue reading

Reviewing Aged Item Receipts in QuickBooks

One of the methods of receiving inventory is without the vendor’s bill. The effect of receiving inventory without a bill is to increase your inventory asset (debit) and increase your accounts payable (credit). The unique feature of this method is … Continue reading

Help Options in QuickBooks

As a business owner or accounting professional new to QuickBooks, you will find many resources for getting the help you need. To access Help in QuickBooks, you can press the F1 key on your keyboard, or by selecting Help, QuickBooks … Continue reading

Partially Paid Opened Customer Invoices on Cash Basis Reporting in QuickBooks

To properly prepare reports with cash basis reporting and to properly report on sales by item, you should perform additional steps for those open invoices that had partially paid balances as of your startup date. These steps are required only … Continue reading

How to Customize Icons in QuickBooks

The QuickBooks Home page displays common tasks and workflow for vendors, customers, employees, and other activities and information. Some tasks can be added or removed depending on the needs of your business. If your Home page did not automatically display, … Continue reading

How to Add a New Service Item in QuickBooks

To practice adding a new service item, open the sample data file. If you are working in your own file, use these instructions to begin creating your own service items: From the menu bar, select Lists, Item List to open … Continue reading