Merging accounts within your chart of accounts is a necessary skill to keeping reports clean.
Merging Accounts in QuickBooks
Tag: Accounting
Accountable Reimbursements
Another topic I regularly teach is Accountable Reimbursement Plans. I used to think of this as a pretty straight forward topic, but I’m an accountant. I think in accounting rules…debits, credits, etc. The best part of this presentation is that chart for figuring out if mileage is commuting or business. This would also be a…
Merging Vendors in QuickBooks Online
I just ran across one of my pet peeves…the duplicate vendor. Whenever I run across one, it makes me feel like I’m being careless and sloppy. How could this happen. Just accept it that duplicate vendors happen and now let’s fix it. I’m sure other church software systems have their own way of fixing this.…
Closing a month or year in QuickBooks Online
One of the things I take pride in is keeping accurate accounting records and reporting anything that’s out of the ordinary. Something that undermines this is when I accidentally post something to a past period that I’ve already reported on. Unexplained transactions posted in the past makes you look like you’re playing fast and loose…
QuickBooks Sub-Accounts are Awesome!
Finishing up my 30-day free trial of QuickBooks Online. This is the last tip I wanted to throw out. If you’re not using Sub-Accounts in QuickBooks, your reporting is lacking. The only way I know how to get robust reporting for a church is to use Sub-Accounts. Sub-Accounts let you better organize your accounts. They…
Charting your church’s success (or failure) with the Chart of Accounts
I am a believer that many churches’ future is determined by their chart of accounts. The chart of accounts shape the church leaderships view of their finances and affect their decisions. A confusing chart of accounts leads to confused decisions. I know there are many exceptions, but the chart of accounts is one of the…
How can you handle donor-restricted funds in QuickBooks?
I’m still working in my 30-day free trial of Non-Profit QuickBooks Online. One of the first challenges I’ve helped churches work through is how you handle all those church funds. I’ve seen two good solutions: 1)Track it all in the Equity section or 2)Track it in Equity AND Other Income. I show you this in…