How to Record a Reimbursement in Quickbooks
Do your business’s employees use their own money to purchase products or services related to their respective job? If so, you’ll need to reimburse them. Employers in the United States are required to either purchase these essential products and services on behalf of their employees, or they may reimburse their employees for the cost of these products and services. When taking the latter route, of course, you’ll have to record the reimbursements. In Quickbooks, you can record a reimbursement to an employee in a few easy steps.
Create a Journal Entry
Quickbooks offers journal entries as a way to record reimbursements. You can create a new journal entry in Quickbooks Online by selecting the “Create +” button on the home screen, followed by “Journal Entry.”
When setting up the new journal entry, you’ll need to choose a liability account as well as the dollar amount of the reimbursement. You’ll also need to select the employee for whom you are recording the reimbursement under the “Name” drop-down menu. For the “Account” menu, choose an expense account. For the “Debits” field, enter the dollar amount of the reimbursement. After completing these steps, click “Save and close” to finish setting up the new journal entry.
Pay the Employee
Upon creating a new journal entry, the reimbursement should be recorded in your Quickbooks account. However, you’ll still need to pay the employee. After all, that’s the entire purpose of a reimbursement.
To pay the employee for whom you recorded the reimbursement, click the “+ New” button on the home screen and select “Expense.” From the “Payee” drop-down menu, find and select the employee’s name. Next, click the “Category” drop-down menu and choose the option for a liability account. If you don’t already have a liability account, you’ll need to create one.
You’ll also need to specify a few other pieces of information to pay the employee, including the dollar amount of the reimbursement. After completing the required fields, select “Save and close.” Keep in mind that Quickbooks Online Payroll offers a special type of account for reimbursement payments. Known as a reimbursement account, it will keep all of your reimbursement payments grouped together so that you can easily access and analyze them. Even without Payroll, though, you can still record reimbursements, and you can still pay employees for those reimbursements.
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Classes vs Subclasses in Quickbooks: What’s the Difference?
Quickbooks Desktop makes it easy to categorize your business’s accounting data. You can separate transactions from customers from vendors, for example. You probably don’t want all of these transactions grouped together. By separating them, you can compare your business’s sales revenue to its inventory expenses. But that’s not the only categorization method available in Quickbooks Desktop. Intuit’s popular accounting software offers other ways to categorize your business’s accounting data, including classes and subclasses.
What Is a Class?
A class is simply a customizable tag that’s used to categorize accounting data in Quickbooks Desktop. They aren’t required. Rather, Quickbooks Desktop gives you the option of using classes.
If you want to categorize your business’s accounting data using a custom method, classes are the answer. You can set up classes for your business’s different locations, vendors, promotions, local vs online store and pretty much anything else. When viewing your business’s accounting data in Quickbooks Desktop, you can select one of these classes.
What Is a Subclass?
A subclass is essentially a child-level class. It works like a standard class by categorizing and tracking accounting data. You can create a subclass to categorize data using a custom method. The difference is that subclasses go under a standard class.
All subclasses must be assigned to a standard class. They are known as “subclasses” because they go under a standard class. With subclasses, you can categorize data within a standard class. If your business has three locations, and there are three departments within each of these locations, you can create subclasses for the three departments. The subclasses will simply go under the location-based classes.
How to Use Classes and Subclasses
To use classes and subclasses, you’ll need to enable class tracking in Quickbooks Desktop. Open your business’s company file and choose “Preferences” from the “Edit” menu. Under “Accounting,” click “Company Preferences.” You should then see an option for “Use class tracking for transactions.” Assuming it’s currently unticked, click the box to enable class tracking. When finished, click “OK” to save the changes.
Once enabled, you’ll be able to assign classes and subclasses to your business’s recorded transactions. From invoices and sales receipts to checks, bills, purchase orders and more, most transactions support the use of classes and subclasses. Keep in mind, though, that all subclasses must be assigned to a standard class.
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What Is Net Operating Income?
When researching accounting terms related involving real estate businesses, you may come across net operating income. Not to be confused with net income, it’s used extensively by property developers and investors to determine the profitability of a piece of property. Real estate isn’t cheap. Before buying a piece of property for the purpose of generating revenue, developers and investors will often evaluate its net operating income. What is net operating income exactly?
Overview of Net Operating Income
In real estate, net operating income refers to the profitability of a piece of real property. It takes into account the property’s gross operating income and operating expenses.
Buying a piece of property typically comes with expenses. Developers and investors will foot the bill for the expenses, which can eat into their profits. To determine whether a piece of property is worth buying, they’ll calculate its net operating income. Developers and investors will estimate the property’s gross operating income and its operating expenses. Using this data, they’ll identify its net operating income.
How to Calculate Net Operating Income
You can calculate the net operating income for a piece of property by subtracting its gross operating income by its operating expenses. Gross operating income, of course, is the income the property is expected to generate. Operating expenses, on the other hand, include all non-tax costs associated with buying, maintaining and selling or utilizing the property as a commercial investment.
Why Net Operating Income Is Important
Net operating income is important for real estate businesses because it provides insight into whether or not a piece of property is a smart investment. Real estate businesses buy properties to make money. If a piece of property’s expenses outweighs its gross operating income, developers and investors should avoid it. They won’t make money when expenses exceed gross operating income.
Fortunately, net operating income is a calculation that reveals whether a piece of property is worth investing in. It looks at the property’s gross operating income and its operating expenses. Using this simple formula, developers and investors can determine the property’s profitability. They generally want properties with a high net operating income. A high operating income is a sign of profitability in which the underlying property has high gross operating income and low operating expenses.
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What Is the ‘Master Admin’ User in Quickbooks?
If you use Quickbooks Online, you may come across a user type known as the master admin. All Quickbooks Online accounts have a master admin. The master admin is at the top of the account type totem pole. To learn more about the Master Admin, including how to change it, keep reading.
Overview of the Master Admin
The master admin is the user with the highest level of permissions and privileges in Quickbooks Online. Intuit’s cloud-based accounting software supports several types of users, including accounting firms and standard users. The master admin is above all of these users. He or she can access every feature in Quickbooks Online, including all of the respective business’s accounting data.
Quickbooks Online restricts businesses to having a single master admin. You can’t create two or more master admins. Rather, you can only create a single master admin. When you subscribe to Quickbooks Online, you’ll create a master admin. While you change the master admin — meaning you transfer the account to someone else — you can’t add new master admins to Quickbooks Online.
How to Change the Master Admin
Most businesses won’t need to change their master admin. Business owners who subscribe to Quickbooks Online will typically retain their master admin accounts. Nonetheless, there are instances in which a business may want to change its master admin. If your business appoints a new executive leader, for instance, you may want to give him or her access to the master admin. You can change the master admin in just a few easy steps.
Start by signing in to Quickbooks Online as the master admin. From the “Settings” menu, click “Manage users,” followed by “Add user.” You can then select “Company admin” and “Next.” In the next field, enter some basic information about the user, including his or her email address, after which you can click “Save.” Quickbooks will then send the user an email with a link. Upon receiving this email and clicking the link, the user will become the new master admin.
If the user whom you want to make the master admin is already added to your Quickbooks account, go back to “Manage users” and find the user in the “User Type” column. After finding the user, click the drop-down arrow for “Action” and change his or her user type to “master admin.”
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5 Features of Quickbooks Advanced Inventory You Need to Know
Depending on which version of Quickbooks you use, you may notice an option to subscribe to Advanced Inventory. It’s available in Quickbooks Desktop Enterprise. While optional, Advanced Inventory can prove useful for many businesses. It’s designed to extend Quickbooks’s inventory tracking features. If your business sells a lot of products, you may want to use it. Below are five of the top features of Advanced Inventory.
#1) Track By Location
Advanced Inventory allows you to track product sales by location. Not all businesses operate at a single location. Many businesses have multiple stores or workplaces spread across an equally large number of locations. If your business falls under this category, you may want to use Advanced Inventory. With this optional Quickbooks feature, you can track product sales by location.
#2) FIFO Accounting
Advanced Inventory also offers First In, First Out (FIFO) accounting. It’s an inventory costing method that’s used in the calculation of cost of goods sold. It works on the assumption that your business’s oldest products are sold before its newest products. You will then use these costs in the calculation of your business’s cost of goods sold. Advanced Inventory will bring FIFO accounting to your business’s Quickbooks.
#3) Track By Lot
In addition to location, Advanced Inventory allows you to track products by lot. If you work with six different suppliers, for example, you can track their respective products as they enter your business’s supply line. Each vendor will essentially be assigned a unique lot number. In Quickbooks, you can see which vendor’s products are selling the best at your business and which vendor’s products are selling the worst. Advanced Inventory offers several new tracking methods, two of the most notable being location and lot.
#4) Automatically Track Associated Expenses
By using Advanced Inventory, you’ll have a better understanding of how much your business pays in non-direct expenses associated with its operations. Advanced Inventory provides insight into the cost of insurance, shipping and other associated expenses. It will automatically track these associated expenses so that you don’t inadvertently overpay for them.
#5) Bar Code Scanning
Finally, Advanced Inventory offers bar code scanning. After enabling Advanced Inventory, you can use a compatible barcode scanner to automatically add or remove products from your business’s inventory. When you buy a product for the purpose of reselling it, you can add it to your business’s inventory. When you sell a product, on the other hand, you can remove it from your business’s inventory.
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Intuit Releases HubSpot for Quickbooks
Quickbooks just received a major upgrade. In November 2020, Intuit announced that its popular and long-running accounting software would now support HubSpot. Business owners who use HubSpot can take advantage of this integration by automatically transferring all their data to their Quickbooks account. How does HubSpot for Quickbooks work exactly?
The Basics of HubSpot
To better understand how HubSpot for Quickbooks works, you must familiarize yourself with the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. HubSpot is a type of CRM software that allows businesses to manage their customers’ data in a centralized interface. Research shows that over 30,000 businesses currently use HubSpot. Based on these numbers, it ranks as one of the most popular types of CRM software.
HubSpot offers many processes associated with managing relationships with customers. Business owners can use it to track customers during each stage of their sales cycle, capture leads, set up marketing sequences, track sales and more.
Overview of HubSpot for Quickbooks
While HubSpot is still available as a standalone product, it’s now supported by Quickbooks as well. According to Intuit, business owners who use Quickbooks Online — the cloud version of Intuit’s accounting software — can now integrate it with HubSpot.
HubSpot for Quickbooks is designed to tackle two common challenges encountered by business owners: managing customers and recording financial information. “By teaming up with HubSpot, we are helping small businesses digitally transform and address their top two pain points — getting paid and managing customers,” said Intuit Chief Sales Officer Bobby Morrison. “The combination of our product portfolios will create tremendous value for small businesses around the world. This is the first step in a multi-pronged relationship that will only grow over time.”
With HubSpot for Quickbooks, business owners will no longer have to manually transfer data from HubSpot to Quickbooks. Once integrated, HubSpot will automatically send data to the business owner’s Quickbooks account.
HubSpot for Quickbooks won’t just streamline many accounting processes for business owners; it will protect against errors. Manually transferring creates an inherent risk for errors. If the wrong data is transferred, it could throw off the business owner’s financial records. With HubSpot for Quickbooks, there’s little or no risk of errors. All data is transferred automatically. Best of all, perhaps, there’s no additional charge to use HubSpot for Quickbooks. If you currently use Quickbooks Online and HubSpot, you can integrate them to take advantage of these benefits.
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The 2 Ways to Add a New Account in Quickbooks
Accounts are an essential component of your business’s financial records. Available to view in the chart of accounts, they reflect your business’s assets, liabilities, income, expenses and equity. If you use the Quickbooks accounting software, you can create new accounts in one of two ways. Both methods are relatively straightforward, but they require different steps to complete. To learn more about creating new accounts in Quickbooks, keep reading.
Method #1) Chart of Accounts
You can add a new account in Quickbooks from your business’s chart of accounts. When logged in to Quickbooks, click the “Settings” menu and choose “Chart of Accounts.” Next, click “New” to initiate the creation of a new account. You can then click the drop-down menu labeled “Account Type” to choose your desired account type.
Regardless of the account type, you’ll need to give the new account a name. It’s recommended that you use a descriptive name so that you easily recognize and remember it. After giving the new account a name, enter a description for it in the “Description” field. If it’s a sub-account, click the option for “Is sub-account,” after which you can select its corresponding parent account. You must then choose the date for which you want to begin the account’s transactions. After completing all these steps, click “Save and Close” to complete the process. That’s all it takes to add a new account in Quickbooks.
Method #2) Add When Recording Transactions
In addition to the chart of accounts, you can add a new account when recording transactions. Whether the transaction is a check, a bill or anything else, you can add a new account to it. Just open the transaction in Quickbooks and click the arrow icon in the “Category” section. Next, click the “+Add new” button.
Upon clicking the “+Add new” button, you’ll be able to enter the details about the new account. This process is similar to that of the first method. You’ll need to give the account a name, a description and a date. When finished, save your changes to finish adding the new account to Quickbooks.
In Conclusion
Quickbooks offers two ways to add new accounts. You can add a new account by accessing your business’s chart of accounts, or you can add a new account when recording transactions.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Equity Accounts in Quickbooks
Quickbooks offers a myriad of features for tracking your business’s finances, one of which is equity accounts. When viewing your business’s Chart of Accounts, you’ll probably notice an equity account at the top. It provides insight into your business’s investments and owner’s draws. What is an equity account exactly, and how do they work?
What Is an Equity Account?
An equity account is a parent-level account in Quickbooks that contains information about owner’s draws and owner’s investments. An owner’s draw is money that you transfer out of your business’s bank account and into your personal account. An owner’s investment, on the other hand, is money that you transfer out of your personal bank account and into your business’s account. In an equity account, you’ll find these transactions listed.
Why You Should Use an Equity Account
By using an equity account, you’ll have a better understanding of how much money you are putting into your business, as well as how much money you are taking out of your business. Most business owners perform both types of transactions. If their business needs additional money, they’ll invest money into it. If their business is doing well and has an excess amount cash on hand, they’ll draw money out of it.
An equity account allows you to see exactly how much money you are putting into your business and how much money you are taking out of your business. It shows both owner’s equity and owner’s draws. Owner’s equity consists of investments. These are the transactions in which you put money into your business. Owner’s draws, conversely, are transactions that involve taking money out of your business. Although they are called “equity accounts,” they contain both types of transactions. You can find owner’s equity or investments and owner’s draws listed in an equity account.
How to Create an Equity Account
You can create an equity account by accessing the Chart of Accounts feature in Quickbooks Desktop. While logged in to your Quickbooks account, click the “Lists” link at the top of the main menu. Next, click the drop-down menu for “Account” and select the option for “New.” You can then choose the account type, followed by clicking “Continue.”
Quickbooks will require you to enter some details about the new equity account. After adding these details, click “Save & Close” to complete the process.
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How Sub Accounts Work in Quickbooks
When setting up and using Quickbooks, you may discover an option for sub accounts. While optional, many businesses use them to classify their income and expenses. What are sub accounts exactly, and how do they work in Quickbooks?
An Introduction to Sub Accounts
A sub account is a classification feature in Quickbooks. It allows you to create custom groups for income and expenses. When you place multiple income or expense transactions in a sub account, you’ll be able to find them more easily. Rather than viewing all of your business’s income transactions, you can specifically search for those in the sub account. Sub accounts allow you to run reports so that you can view all the transactions associated with a specific sub account.
The Mechanics of Sub Accounts
Sub accounts work by grouping income and expenses together. If you operate a retail business, for example, you may want to create a sub account for each of your departments, such as “men’s apparel,” “women’s apparel,” “kid’s apparel,” “footwear,” etc. Alternatively, if your business operates from several brick-and-mortar stores, you can create a sub account for each location.
Sub accounts work in conjunction with parent accounts. A parent account is an upper-level classification for income and expenses, whereas a sub account is a lower-level classification. Using the same example from above, a parent account for multiple brick-and-mortar store locations could simply be “locations.” Under the “locations” parent account, you could create a sub account for each brick-and-mortar location.
How to Create a Sub Account
In Quickbooks Online, you can create a sub account from the “Chart of Accounts” menu. Log in to Quickbooks Online and click the “Settings,” icon, followed by “Chart of Accounts.” After choosing “New,” select the type of income and then tick the option for “Is Sub Account?” Next, you’ll need to attach a parent account to it. All sub accounts must be attached to a parent account. If you don’t have one, go back and create a parent account.
You’ll also need to give the sub account a name. It’s recommended that you choose a descriptive name that reflects its classification. With a descriptive name, you can easily recognize the sub account and distinguish it from the rest. Once you’ve attached the sub account to a new or existing parent account, click “Save and Close” to complete the process.
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How to Use an Adjustment Note to Record Bank Fees in Quickbooks
Did your bank charge you a fee for a customer’s payment? If so, you’ll need to record it. Customers can’t predict whether or not banks will charge you a fee. Maybe the customer made a wire transfer, in which case your bank added a fee to your account. Regardless, it’s important to record fees such as this so that they don’t throw off your financial records. Fortunately, you can easily record bank fees in Quickbooks by using an adjustment note.
Create a New Expense Account
To get started, log in to Quickbooks and create a new expense account. From the “Accounting” menu, choose “Chart of Accounts,” followed by “New.” Next, select the option to create a new expense account. After giving the expense account a memorable name, such as “bank fees,” click “Save” to complete the setup.
Create a Product
Now it’s time to create a product. Click the gear icon in the corner of Quickbooks Online and choose “Products and Services.” From there, click “New” and choose “Product,” after which you’ll have to give a name. Finally, add the new product to the expense account created in the previous step. You can then click “Save” to finish creating the product.
Create an Adjustment Note
With the expense account and product created, you can proceed to create an adjustment note. An adjustment note, of course, is a type of memo that adjusts the balance of an invoice. When you are charged a bank fee — or other unexpensed fee associated with a transaction — you can use an adjustment note to record it.
To create an adjustment note, click the (+) icon in Quickbooks Online and choose “Adjustment Note.” Next, select the option for “Customer” and choose the product that you created in the previous step. You can then add the amount of the bank fee to your adjustment fee. If your bank charged you for $15, for instance, enter $15 in the amount field.
Connect Adjustment Note to Invoice
The final step involves connecting the adjustment note to the customer’s invoice. This is done by clicking the “Sales” menu, selecting “Customers” and choosing the invoice from which you incurred the bank fee. After selecting “Make Payment,” you can connect the adjustment note to the invoice. Simply untick the box so that Quickbooks recognizes the fee as originating from the invoice.
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