9. Reporting Results

Reporting Results

If you use QuickBooks to track your business’s finances, you’ll probably want to generate reports that summarize financial activity. After all, what’s the sense in taking the time to enter transactions if you can’t see the income statements, balance sheets, and other financial statements you need to judge your business’s health and well being?

QuickBooks has an extensive and flexible reporting system that can summarize just about any data entered into your accounting records. There are three types of reports, all of which can be customized in a wide variety of ways:

QuickReports summarize activity in an account or provide supporting details for a value in another report. These reports can be created by ...

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