Chapter 10

Evaluating How the Business Is Doing

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding the Reports page

Bullet Finding reports

Bullet Printing and saving reports

QuickBooks Online reports help you keep tabs on the pulse of your business, as well as do a deep dive into the details whenever warranted. This chapter provides an overview of the reporting capabilities QuickBooks offers and shows how you can export reports to Microsoft Excel, PDF files, or Google Sheets.

Reviewing Income and Expenses

When you click Reports (Business Overview ⇒   Reports) on the navigation bar, you see a page like the one shown in Figure 10-1.

Reports are typically organized into three tabs: Standard, Custom Reports, and Management Reports, but Advanced subscriptions have an additional Multi-Co Reporting tab. As you scroll down the Reports page, you’ll find the Standard reports organized in the following categories:

  • Favorites
  • Business Overview
  • Who Owes You
  • Sales and Customers
  • What You Owe
  • Expenses and Vendors
  • Sales Tax
  • Employees
  • For My Accountant
  • Payroll
Snapshot of the Reports page.

FIGURE 10-1: The Reports page.

The list of available payroll reports ...

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