QuickBooks 2016 All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 4

Managing Cash and Bank Accounts

In This Chapter

• Writing and printing checks
• Making deposits
• Transferring funds
• Using the register
• Working with the Edit menu
• Reconciling your accounts
• Using the other QuickBooks banking tools

QuickBooks provides several tools that make working with your bank accounts easier. For example, QuickBooks gives you a special window for recording the checks you’ve written. QuickBooks also lets you easily record deposits into accounts. Additionally, QuickBooks includes tools for easily recording transfers between accounts, for reconciling bank accounts, and for performing online banking transactions. This chapter talks about all these features.

If you’ve used QuickBooks’s little-brother product, Quicken, much of the information that you see here will be familiar. The QuickBooks banking tools look like the popular Quicken checkbook program. (This is good news for the 10 million or so Quicken users.)

Writing Checks

Obviously, any business writes checks to pay bills and to pay employees. QuickBooks includes a command and a window specifically for the purpose of recording and possibly printing checks.

Recording and printing a check

To record or print checks, choose the Banking ⇒ Write Checks command. When QuickBooks displays the Write Checks window, as shown in Figure 4-1, take the following steps to write a check:

1. Use the Bank Account drop-down ...