QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 8th Edition

Chapter 9

Working in Registers

IN THIS CHAPTER

Examining registers

Customizing your register’s appearance

Working with registers and transactions

In Chapters 6 and 7, I show you how to enter transactions such as checks, sales receipts, invoices, customer payments, and more, while Chapter 8 shows you how to process payroll. I also show how you to search and filter existing transactions. In this chapter, I’ll show you how to use registers to carry out these actions. As I explain, registers give you a bird’s-eye view of transactions that affect certain accounts in your books. In accounting parlance, these are known as balance sheet accounts.

Understanding Registers

Registers are chronological lists of transactions for a particular account, and used to be maintained on paper before the advent of computers. Those of us of a certain age may recall dutifully maintaining paper checkbook registers for our personal checking accounts.

You can only view a register for the following account types:

• Bank
• Accounts Receivable
• Other Current Assets
• Fixed Assets
• Other Assets
• Accounts Payable
• Credit ...