QuickBooks Online Plus: A Complete Course 2017, 2nd edition

Provide real-world experience with extensive hands-on material

This text provides students with ample opportunity to learn and apply accounting concepts presented in the text and online software.

• Step-by-step tutorial-style training helps students develop confidence in recording business transactions.
• Intuit’s Test Drive Company helps students drill throughout the text.
• Students create a new company in Chapter 2 that is used throughout the text.
• Screen shots show students how their screens should look as they complete their training.
• Places to double-check students’ work, ensure they grasp the concept at hand before moving on.
• Additional Transactions are included at the end of each chapter to reinforce the concepts and transaction entry covered in the chapter.
• End-of-chapter material where the concepts and applications learned are reinforced by the completion of assignable true/false, multiple-choice, fill-in, and computer-assignment questions.
• A Bonus Practice Set is provided to instructors for completion at the end of the text.
• QuickBooks^® screens, completed transactions, and reports help students conceptualise accounting concepts visually.
• To provide a real-world experience within the text, students are required to customise and print many business forms and reports.

An innovative approach for learning how to use QuickBooks^® Online Plus to run a business

• After thorough instruction in and usage of QuickBooks Online Plus within the text, students should be able to transition from training to using the program in an actual business.
• Throughout the text, emphasis has been placed on the use of QuickBooks Online Plus’s innovative approach to recording accounting transactions based on a business form rather than using the traditional journal format. This approach has been correlated to traditional accounting through adjusting entries, end-of-period procedures, and use of the “behind the scenes” journal.
• Learners have the opportunity to work in a Cloud-based environment (versus having to download the software).
• Students will explore and use many of the features of QuickBooks Online Plus as it pertains to both service and merchandising businesses, including:
  • Recording transactions for service and inventory businesses–from simple to complex–that simulate real-world occurrences
  • Preparing, analysing, customising, creating, and printing a variety of reports
  • Closing an accounting period
  • Creating a new company
  • Customising QuickBooks Online Plus to fit the needs of an individual company
  • Completing assignments including a drill using Intuit’s Test Drive Company
  • Preparing payroll using Intuit’s Test Drive Company
  • Exploring error detection and correction

NEW! Content changes

• New Design for QuickBooks Online
• Streamlined Company Setup
• Navigation Enhancements
• Add Accountant (Instructor) to QuickBooks Online Account
• Inclusion of Allowance for Bad Debts
• Include a Taxable Column when Importing Products/Items from Excel
• Create Inventory Reorder Points
• Save, Send, and/or Print Refund Receipts
• Bundle Sales Items To

New and improved features and functionality help students better understand accounting concepts

New additions and enhancements to the text include:

• Design for QuickBooks^® Online Plus: A Complete Course 2017, complete with new information and navigation.
• Access codes and instructions to activate the Educational Trial Version of QuickBooks Online Plus and QuickBooks Online through Intuit.
• Streamlined company setup.
• Taxable column when importing products/items from Excel.
• Functionality, including the ability to create inventory reorder points; bundle sales items together; smart invoice; copy or blind copy invoices in email; correct and void paychecks; invite your accountant to work with your QuickBooks Online company; and save, send, and print refund receipts.
• Simplified procedures for customizing invoices, sales receipts, and estimates.
• Mobile features, including invoice tracking, cash flow insights, and point and snap receipt capture.