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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

By Amie Murrieta


Maintaining books and keeping proper records for every financial transaction is something people have to do after starting a business. Any CPA firm which offers Austin Texas tax preparation assistance to clients will need to see all the records while filing returns. Of course, maintaining books manually and tracking all spending and revenue is very hard. The rest of it is almost impossible to manage by hand.

That is why many clients decide to start by learning how this is done using Quickbooks. It is available in both desktop and online (cloud) versions. It's a good idea to learn how to use whichever version of the software the business has purchased.

A business owner or student signing up for a 1-on-1 course will first learn to set it up and create the company file. The next step is to learn the simple stuff like buying, selling, bank reconciliation, sales taxes, inventory, etc. These are common tasks that will be updated with each purchase or sale.

An understanding of accounting principles is obviously required, so a part of the course will focus on this. Students are taught basic but highly important concepts such as cash vs. Accrual accounting and how to decide which one is more suitable. The course will explain things like general journal entries. It will show participants how one reads financial statements.

The advanced features that are key to software like Quickbooks include payroll and employee management, processing employee checks, and so on. Then there's inventory, sales taxes, and making tax deposits and preparing forms. Customizing reports by adding, editing or deleting fields is another thing that the course will teach students.

It's obviously advisable for an Austin, Texas business to get tax preparation help from a CPA firm. But it will be better and easier for the business and its accountant if all the data is already available in a ready-to-use format. Learning Quickbooks one on one will eliminate human errors and free up the owner or manager's time to deal with more important things such as keeping customers happy.




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