QuickBooks 2005 Training Series

The Quickbooks 2005 Professional course will teach you how to efficiently set up your own accounts and manage your business. Learn inventory management, sales tax issues, task management, classifying transactions, bank statement reconciliation and more.

Course Instructor: Matt Harward


Matt Harward has been training and consulting on computer software and hardware for over 10 years. He has been an official corporate presenter for Novell, HP, IBM, Compaq, and Lucent Technologies. He is formally certified on several networking and business applications. Matt has trained thousands of end user customers, channel partners, and corporate teams on dozens of products from Intuit, Microsoft, Corel, Novell, HP, Compaq, IBM, SCO and others. Matt currently develops course curriculum and provides product training seminars for Intuit, Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett Packard, and Makau.

Beginning Level
Couse Introduction

• Setting Up Your Company
• Changing Company Information
• Chart of Accounts
• Customer Job List
• Vendor List

Customizing the Interface

• Title Bar/Menu Bar
• Open Windows List
• Navigators
• The ICON Bar
• The Short Cuts List
• QuickBooks Help
• QuickBooks Find

QuickBooks Reports

• Report Features
• Modifying Reports
• E-mailing Reports
• Memorized Reports
• Memorized Report List
• Report Navigator

Accounts Payable

• Entering Bills
• Unpaid Bill Report
• Paying Bills
• Keys to Success

Accounts Receivable

• Item List
• Creating/Sending an Invoice
• Open Invoices Report
• Receiving Customer Payments
• Deposit Funds

File Backup & Restore

• Backing Up a Company File
• Scheduling a File Backup
• Restoring a Company File

Intermediate Level

Access & QuickBook Files

• QuickBooks Administrator
• Additional Users
• Working in Multi-User Mode

Working with Lists

• Types of Lists
• Employee List
• Other Names
• Sorting Lists
• Merging Lists

Working with Bank Accounts

• The Check Register
• Finding & Editing Transactions
• Printing the Check Register
• Debit Card Transactions
• Petty Cash Transactions

Statements & Sales Receipts

• Sales Tax
• Grouping Items
• Creating a Sales Receipt
• Creating a Statement
• Sales by Item Report

Receiving Payments Exceptions

• Underpayments
• Overpayments
• Applying Discounts & Credits to Invoices
• Issuing Credit Memos/Refunds
• Customer QuickReport

Advanced Level

Items & Inventory

• Enabling the Inventory Feature
• Expenses vs. Items
• Inventory Limitations
• Inventory Quality Adjustments
• Inventory Value Adjustments

Purchase Orders

• Enabling the Purchase Order Feature
• Creating Purchase Orders
• Receiving Items against Purchase Orders
• Entering Bills against Purchase Orders

Customizing Forms

• Working with Microsoft Excel
• Exporting Lists to Microsoft Excel
• Exporting Reports to Microsoft Excel
• Exporting & Importing Company Data

Advanced Payment & Purchases

• Purchasing & Financing Fixed Assets
• Loan Manager
• Lines of Credit
• Vendor Prepayments

Employee Reimbursements

• Entering & Paying Reimbursements as Bills

Reconciling Bank Accounts

• Reconciling Deposits
• Reconciling Checks
• Reconciling Debit Card Transactions
• Voiding Checks
• Voided/Deleted transactions Report
• Reconciliation Detail Report
• Undo Reconcile