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QuickBooks Online vs Xero Accounting Software

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Overview

Compare leading online software packages with a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

What you'll learn:
  • Set up QuickBooks Online & Xero accounting software
  • Navigate QuickBooks Online & Xero accounting software
  • Enter normal business transaction into accounting software
  • Reconcile bank accounts using accounting software
  • Generate and analyze reports including a balance sheet, an income statement, and supporting reports
  • Export Reports to Excel

This course will compare two leading online accounting software applications, QuickBooks Online and Xero, in a step by step format.

This is a comprehensive accounting course.

We will discuss the purchasing options and the best tools to learn these accounting software packages at the lowest cost.

Learners will understand how to set up a new company file in each software package.

The course will demonstrate how to navigate each software package and how to generate, analyze, and customize common financial reports.

We will learn how to create inventory and service items and how they are used to create invoices, purchase orders, and sales receipts.

The course will show how to enter two months of data in a step by step process, comparing the two accounting software packages at every level along the way.

The course will demonstrate how to complete bank reconciliations and enter adjusting and reversing entries.

We will also learn how bank feeds work. Bank feeds are the ability to connect directly to the bank and download financial information into the accounting software.

The course will provide practice data to learn how bank feeds work. Learners will also understand how to make bank rules to automate the bookkeeping process further.

Syllabus

  • QBO- Getting Started
  • Xero-2023-2022 Getting Started and Set Up
  • QBO- Vendor, Accounts Payable, Expenses, or Purchases Cycle
  • Xero-2023-2022 Vendor, Accounts Payable, Expenses, or Purchases Cycle
  • QBO Customer Cycle, Sales Cycle, or Accounts Receivable Cycle
  • Xero-2023-2022 Customer Cycle , Sales Cycle, or Accounts Receivable Cycle
  • QBO Other Important Forms & Functions, Shortcuts, & Employee Cycle
  • Xero-2023 Employee Cycle Overview
  • QBO Lists-Chart of Accounts & Products & Services Lists
  • Xero-2023 Lists-Chart of Accounts & Products & Services Lists
  • QBO Help/Support & Reports Overview
  • Xero-2023 Reports Overview
  • QBO Balance Sheet Reports
  • Xero-2023 Balance Sheet Reports
  • QBO-2023 Profit & Loss / Income Statement
  • Xero-2023 Profit & Loss / Income Statement
  • QBO-2023 Statement of Cash Flows & Supplemental Reports
  • Xero-2023 Statement of Cash Flows & Supplemental Reports
  • QBO-2023 Start a New Company File
  • Xero-2023 Start a New Company File
  • QBO-2023 Company Preferences
  • Xero-2023 Company Preferences & Settings
  • QBO-2023 Adding Service Items & Inventory Items
  • Xero-2023 Adding Service Items & Inventory Items
  • QBO-2023 Sales Tax Setup, Add Customers, & Add Vendors
  • Xero-2023 Sales Tax Setup, Add Customers, & Add Vendors
  • QBO-2023 Opening Balances, Adjustments to Equity, & Manual Payroll Setup
  • Xero-2023 Opening Balances, Adjustments to Equity, & Manual Payroll Setup
  • QBO-2023 Month 1-Record Short-Term Investment & Purchase of Fixed Asset for Cash
  • Xero-2023 Month 1-Record Short-Term Investment & Purchase of Fixed Asset
  • QBO-2023 Month 1-Enter Purchase Order & enter check or Expense Form from P.O.
  • Xero-2023 Month 1-Enter Purchase Order & enter check or Expense Form from P.O.
  • QBO-2023 Month 1-Enter Invoice, Sales Receipt, & Deposit
  • Xero-2023 Month 1-Enter Invoice, Sales Receipt, & Deposit
  • QBO-2023 Month 1-Enter Invoice, Receive Payment, & Bill
  • Xero-2023 Month 1-Enter Invoice, Receive Payment, & Bill
  • QBO-2023-Month 1-Create Customer Job, Pay Employees, & Create Sales Receipt
  • Xero-2023-Month 1-Create Customer Job, Pay Employees, & Create Sales Receipt
  • QBO-2023-Month 1 Reports
  • Xero-2023-Month 1 Reports
  • QBO-2023 Month 2-Enter Loan Payments, Create Amortization Tables, & Investments
  • Xero-2023 Month 2-Enter Loan Payments, Create Amortization Tables, & Investments
  • QBO-2023 Month 2-Enter Purchase Order, Sales Receipt, & Bill for Inventory
  • Xero-2023 Month 2-Enter Purchase Order, Sales Receipt, & Bill for Inventory
  • QBO-2023 Month 2-Invoice from Billable Item, Advanced Customer Deposit
  • Xero-2023 Month 2-Invoice from Billable Item, Advanced Customer Deposit
  • QBO-2023 Month 2-Invoicing for Hourly Service
  • Xero-2023 Month 2-Invoicing for Hourly Service
  • QBO-2023 Month 2-Invoicing for Rental Income with Advanced Customer Deposit
  • Xero-2023 Month 2-Invoicing for Rental Income with Advanced Customer Deposit

Taught by

Robert (Bob) Steele

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