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QuickBooks Online for bookkeepers: banking, bills, invoices and reconciliation

Everyday QuickBooks Online work for bookkeepers and office staff: choosing between invoices, sales receipts, bills, checks and expenses; paying bills with the bill payment feature; recording invoice payments without duplicating income; reviewing downloaded bank transactions (match versus categorize), bank rules and receipts; and monthly reconciliation, including the Reconcile Discrepancy Report and the audit log.

Level
Beginner
Length
About 50 minutes
Contents
3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
Status
Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
  • QuickBooks Online

Skills you'll practise

  • Choose between an invoice, sales receipt, bill, check and expense for a given transaction
  • Pay an existing bill with the bill payment feature instead of a check or expense
  • Decide whether a downloaded bank transaction should be matched or categorized
  • Set up a bank rule and explain the risk of rules that add transactions automatically
  • Upload a receipt and match it to an existing transaction or create a new expense
  • Reconcile an account to a zero difference and use the discrepancy report and audit log when a past reconciliation changes

Course outline

  1. 1.QuickBooks Online for bookkeepersVideo · 2 min
  2. 2.Sales and purchases: the right form for each jobLesson · 16 min
  3. 3.Banking: match, categorize, rules and receiptsLesson · 17 min
  4. 4.Reconciling and tracing changesLesson · 17 min
  5. 5.QuickBooks Online for bookkeepers: banking, bills, invoices and reconciliation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
  6. 6.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

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