QuickBooks for Business Advisors
February 24, 2025
|By Julia Shanks
Four week session on how to work with clients who use QuickBooks.
This is NOT a class in how to use QuickBooks, but it will help you navigate reports and support your clients who use QuickBooks.
Week 1: Data Validation
- How to look at reports from QuickBooks and know if the numbers can be assured to be accurate.
- What are some steps to resolve numbers that aren’t quite right.
Week 2: The Chart of Accounts (and how to get the reports organized in a meaningful way)
- We’ll talk about a framework for organize a chart of accounts.
- Review the mechanics for updating a chart of accounts.
- What are products & services and how do they integrate with the Chart of Accounts and reports.
Week 3: The Bank Feed and Problem Solving
- We talked about how to identify problems in QuickBooks, in this session we’ll talk about how to solve some of them.
- We’ll go through the bank feed, how it works, how it can cause problems; and how to resolve the potential problems.
- We’ll also discuss other sticky transactions like managing credit cards sells, and tracking expenses associated with grants.
Week 4: Reports
- Now that you’ve supported your clients in getting their QuickBooks in order, we can start running reports.
- In this section, we’ll talk about some of my favorite reports and how to customize them to get the information you need to best support your clients.