Master the skills of QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA) at your own pace with the unique self-directed learning approach found in Owen's USING QUICKBOOKS® ONLINE FOR ACCOUNTING, 4E. This edition focuses exclusively on QBOA, allowing you to refine your skills while reviewing your understanding of financial accounting, reporting and analysis tools. You learn how accounting information is both created and used to make key decisions. Easy-to-follow instructions, real examples and manageable assignments help you reinforce your accounting skills as you practice using the QBOA application and analyzing business events. You learn how to set up QBOA for a business and how to use it to record business events; generate financial statements and reports; and communicate critical information to business owners, investors and creditors. The skills you acquire translate into on-the-job success no matter what accounting applications you use in the future.
1. Introducing QuickBooks Online Accountant.
2. Sample Company Walkthrough.
3. Setting Up a New Company.
4. Operating Activities: Sales and Cash Receipts.
5. Operating Activities: Purchases and Cash Payments.
6. Investing and Financing Activities.
7. Payroll.
8. Budgets and Bank Reconciliations.
9. Adjusting Entries.
10. Financial Statements and Reports.
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Glenn Owen
Glenn Owen, B.A., C.P.A., recently retired from Allan Hancock College. As part of the accounting and business faculty, he guided students to an understanding of accounting and information systems for 21 years. Mr. Owen is also a retired lecturer from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he taught accounting and information systems courses from 1980 to 2011. His professional experience includes five years at Deloitte & Touche. He also held vice president of finance positions at Westpac Resources, Inc. and Expertelligence, Inc. An acclaimed and well-respected author, Mr. Owen is well known for his QuickBooks® texts, which offer self-paced, case-based instruction on the use of this popular commercial accounting application. His innovative teaching style emphasizes the decision maker’s perspective and encourages students to think creatively. Mr. Owen's graduate studies in educational psychology and his 40 years of business experience yield a balanced blend of theory and practice that permeates and strengthens all of his books.
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NEW LINKS TO INTUIT®'S VIDEO TUTORIALS PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE. This edition offers chapter references and actual links to reliable video tutorials developed and maintained by Intuit®. These video tutorials, located on Youtube.com, offer step-by-step guidance that introduces students to QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA). For quick reference, the preface now includes an at-a-glance matrix of all tutorials mentioned in this edition.
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UPDATES THROUGHOUT THIS EDITION INTEGRATE THE MOST RECENT CHANGES TO QBOA. The author has carefully reviewed each step of instruction in this self-directed edition to ensure all changes and updates to QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA) are incorporated into this edition's presentation, examples and practice.
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CURRENT SCREEN IMAGES OF QBOA CLARIFY INSTRUCTION. Clear, high-quality screen images reflect the newest version of QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA). These screen captures visually reinforce learning and ensure readers understand the capabilities of the software application.
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RECENT DATES USED IN EXAMPLES DEPICT A CONTEMPORARY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. Readers feel confident that they are working with the most recent information and contemporary accounting situations as timely examples and activities throughout this edition reflect recent years.
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FIVE POWERFUL CASE STUDIES OFFER TIMELY, REAL-WORLD PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES. This edition now offers five contemporary cases with varied opportunities to practice specific QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA) skills and apply accounting knowledge in today's business environment.
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HELPFUL CASE MATRIX IDENTIFIES KEY PROCESSES USED IN EACH END-OF-CHAPTER CASE. For quick reference, this Case Matrix in the Preface pinpoints key differences in each case so you can select the ones best suited to your teaching needs. For instance, the Case Matrix identifies which cases involve corporations versus sole proprietorships and which require collecting sales tax. All cases engage students with contemporary business entities that sell products or services and work with employees, vendors and customers.
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SELF-PACED APPROACH MAKES THIS BOOK AN IDEAL ADDITION TO ANY ACCOUNTING COURSE. You can easily add this edition as a supplement to your accounting course. The book's easy-to-follow instructions, examples and manageable assignments require little, if any, in-class instruction. Self-guided and self-paced instruction allows your students to progress logically through the book's real-life case examples and assignments.
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CLEAR LEARNING OUTCOMES GUIDE BOTH STUDY AND INSTRUCTION IN EACH CHAPTER. Every chapter begins with a list of expected learning outcomes followed by step-by-step explanations of how readers can achieve those outcomes. In most chapters the explanations depict a sample company created by Intuit®. Using this company, the chapters clearly demonstrate how to capture and report various operating, investing and financing activities of a business in QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA). End-of-chapter questions and a student case follow to reinforce these explanations.
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SPECIALLY DESIGNED END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS STRENGTHEN COMPREHENSION. Meaningful, yet challenging, questions at the end of each chapter help readers review key concepts and processes explained within the chapter. A matching section ensures that students understand the chapter's important terms and definitions.
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INTERESTING STUDENT CASES PROVIDE QBOA HANDS-ON PRACTICE WORKING WITH KEY CONCEPTS. Each useful case provides important information and guides students through adding data to their company files. As students advance, the cases build upon information from previous chapters’ cases. To ensure comprehension, students must complete all previous cases before moving ahead.
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THIS EDITION AND THE LATEST QBOA EMPHASIZE A SINGLE ONGOING COMPANY CASE. Each licensed copy of QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA) works with only one company, other than the sample company provided online. To work seamlessly with this approach, this edition also emphasizes one ongoing case for illustration and practice, rather than using multiple cases as in other QuickBooks® texts.
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YOU SAVE GRADING TIME WITH COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS IN THE INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL. The resources available with this edition save you time in grading and enable you to easily track and report student outcomes. You can also ensure student comprehension with the complete solutions for each chapter's student case found in this edition's instructor’s manual.
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