Archive for the ‘Blue Dot Video Tutorials’ Category

Setting up a new customer in QuickBooks – a QuickBooks training video (3mins)

This 3 minute video shows you how to set up a new customer in QuickBooks with the objectives of making invoicing and credit control easy and also being able to use the data in a customer database.

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Accounting for deferred income – QuickBooks training video (7 min)

If your business sells annual subscriptions or licences and you issue invoices upfront but want to see the revenue come through your P&L over the life of the contract, this is how to do the accounting in QuickBooks.

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Create a useful QuickBooks Aged Debtors Report – QuickBooks training video (2min)

Improve cashflow by creating a useful Aged Debtors report that’s in top-down order (not alphabetical), highlights negative balances for attention and is readily available for you every day. Here’s how you create one for your business.

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Display negative numbers in red and in brackets – QuickBooks training video (2min)

Negative numbers – a cost where income should be, a creditor where a debtor should be – need to stand out in your management reports. Here’s how.

Learn how to format your QuickBooks reports so that negative numbers are displayed in red and in brackets.

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Buying and depreciating fixed assets – QuickBooks training video (6min)

Learn how to account for the acquisition and depreciation of fixed assets in QuickBooks and how memorised transactions can save you hours of work.

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Exporting QuickBooks reports into Excel – QuickBooks training video (2min)

QuickBooks reports are very powerful but when you can export them into Excel you move up to a new level in terms of what you can do with your financial information.
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Using top accounts and sub accounts – QuickBooks training video (3min)

Top accounts and sub accounts are the tool to use to organise your Chart of Accounts exactly how you want it so that when you produce reports (particularly income & expenditure reports) in QuickBooks they convey the right information in an easy digestible way. Continue Reading