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Mastering QuickBooks 2021

You're reading from   Mastering QuickBooks 2021 The ultimate guide to bookkeeping and QuickBooks Online

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204041
Length 414 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Crystalynn Shelton Crystalynn Shelton
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

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

Customizing reports

As discussed, you don't have to create a report from scratch in QuickBooks Online; you can customize an existing report to get the data that you need. You can save any changes you make to a report so you don't have to recreate it each time.

The following are the steps to customize a report:

  1. Click on Reports on the left menu bar to navigate to the report center, as indicated here:

  1. Select the report as indicated:

  1. Click the Customize button located in the upper-right corner:

  1. The following customization window will be displayed:

As indicated in the preceding screenshot, there are four primary areas you can customize:

  • General 
  • Rows/Columns
  • Filter
  • Header/Footer

We will cover these areas in detail in the following sections.

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