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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Creating General Journal Entries

In essence, every transaction you create in QuickBooks is a journal entry. When you write checks, the program balances the debits and credits behind the scenes. To explicitly create QuickBooks general journal entries, you must first open the Make General Journal Entries dialog box, using any of the following methods:

  • Choose CompanyMake General Journal Entries.

  • Choose BankingMake General Journal Entries.

  • If the Chart of Accounts window is open, right-click anywhere and then choose Make General Journal Entries.

Here are the basic steps for creating a general journal entry in QuickBooks:

  1. In the Make General Journal Entries dialog box, choose the date on which you want the general journal entry to occur.

    Figure 13-2 shows you how it works.

    If you're creating a general journal entry to reassign income or expense to the correct that you make the correction. However, when your or you accountant make End-of-year transactionsend-of-year journal entries, for example to add the current year's depreciation, it's common to use the last day of the fiscal year as the date.

    Figure 13-2.  If you're creating a general journal entry to reassign income or expense to the correct that you make the correction. However, when your or you accountant make end-of-year journal entries, for example to add the current year's depreciation, it's common to use the last day of the fiscal year as the date.

  2. Although QuickBooks automatically assigns numbers to general journal entries, you can specify a different number. In the Entry No. box, type the entry number you want.

    When you type in a number, QuickBooks fills in the entry number for your next entry by incrementing the one you typed. For example, suppose ...

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