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Mastering QuickBooks 2024

You're reading from   Mastering QuickBooks 2024 Bookkeeping with US QuickBooks Online for small businesses

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835469958
Length 570 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Crystalynn Shelton Crystalynn Shelton
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Setting Up Your Company File FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with QuickBooks Online 3. Company File Setup 4. Migrating to QuickBooks Online 5. Customizing QuickBooks for Your Business 6. Managing Customer, Vendor, and Products and Services Lists 7. Section 2: Recording Transactions in QuickBooks Online
8. Managing Sales Tax 9. Recording Sales Transactions in QuickBooks Online 10. Recording Expenses in QuickBooks Online 11. Reconciling Uploaded Bank and Credit Card Transactions 12. Section 3: Generating Reports in QuickBooks Online
13. Reports Center Overview 14. Business Overview and Cash Flow Reports 15. Customer Sales Reports in QuickBooks Online 16. Vendor and Expenses Reports 17. Section 4: Managing Employees and Contractors
18. Managing Employees and 1099 Contractors in QuickBooks Online 19. Section 5: Closing the Books and Handling Special Transactions
20. Closing the Books in QuickBooks Online 21. Handling Special Transactions in QuickBooks Online 22. QuickBooks Online Advanced 23. Shortcuts and Test Drive 24. Intuit QuickBooks Online Certified User Exam Objectives
25. Other Books You May Enjoy
26. Index

Generating the audit log report

The audit log report shows you everything that has happened in your company file so you can keep track of who has been in QuickBooks and what they have been doing. It shows you the date a change was made, the user who made the change, what the change (event) was, and the history if there is more than one change that was made.

Follow the steps below to generate the audit log report:

  1. Navigate to Reports in the left menu bar, as shown in Figure 11.27:
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Figure 11.27: Navigating to the Report Center from the left navigation bar

  1. Scroll down to the Business overview section and select Audit Log, as shown in Figure 11.28:
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Figure 11.28: Clicking on Audit Log in the Business overview group

  1. The audit log report will appear:
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Figure 11.29: Sample audit log report

  1. At the top of the report, there are three fields you can use to filter the report by User, Date changed, and Events...
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