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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

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 we need to follow to customize an existing report:

  1. Click on Reports on the left menu bar to navigate to the Reports Center, as indicated here:
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Figure 10.5: Navigating to the Reports Center

  1. Select the report you want to customize. In this case, we will customize the Profit and Loss report, as indicated:
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Figure 10.6: Running the Profit and Loss report

  1. Click the Customize button located in the upper-right corner:
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Figure 10.7: Customizing a report

  1. The following customization window will appear:

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    Figure 10.8: Options available to customize the report

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