Where to find…

Software: Intuit QuickBooks accounting software The “Find” function (Edit menu | Find) is one of the methods you may consider to use for searching transactions you recorded in QuickBooks. “Simple” find allows user to find Invoice, Estimate, Sales Receipt, Credit Memo, Bill, Cheque, Credit Card, Purchase Order, Sales order, and Journal transaction. For example, you need a list of journals, which was dated last month, […]

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How to view the transaction history in QuickBooks?

Software: Intuit QuickBooks 2015 accounting software To find the related transaction(s) of a record you can use the Transaction History function under the Reports tab of the transaction window. Example: You like to find out which invoice(s) has been offset by a credit memo. First, you open up the credit memo in question, go to the Report […]

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How to record the opening balance of a bank account in QuickBooks accounting software?

Software: Intuit QuickBooks accounting software In our earlier post, QuickBooks | Unpresented Cheque, we discussed whether to record the “GL balance” or the “actual bank balance” as the opening balance of the bank account in the QuickBooks accounting software. There are many methods to record the opening balance of the bank account in Quickbooks. When creating […]

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QuickBooks 2015 – Comment on Report

Software: QuickBooks accounting software 2015 What’s new? Comment on Report. I like the new Comment on Report feature in QuickBooks 2015 Desktop version. After reviewing the reports, the accountant may have a query which they need  to discuss with the business owner. Instead writing it down in the note book (be it paper or digital form) […]

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How to record the bank charges that associated with the payment to the supplier?

Software: Quickbooks accounting software When you remit payment to supplier often there is a bank charge associated with the fund transfer. We usually record it as a separate transaction. That is, record a bill payment in Quickbooks for the amount owing (assume that we made a payment of $10,0000). Then, using a write cheque transaction […]

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A little issue with the QBO template

Software: QBO (QuickBooks Online) Singapore Some users have complained that the SGD Net amount in the invoice print out has somehow changed to a negative value instead of the positive value which suppose to be the same as the SubTotal. There is no workaround, but you may temporarily disable the GST Summary from the preferences […]

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