Reports and accounting

We own a construction firm using QB Enterprise Contractor 24 Desktop.  How do we use the estimate as the beginning balance for a statement? I would like to be able to show the client what they will owe based on their original estimate, less payments applied. WITHOUT having to create an invoice for the entire amount.  Currently, the statements we would like to generate do not show a starting balance which results in an amount due of $0 - so, we are having to manually create the statement outside of QB's.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks, CAM

I got a fraud alert that seems fishy its self. I would like to turn off charges debits ect till this is resolved, but can't figure out how to

All of the sudden this week, when we get into Quickbooks, we got an error "It looks like something in your company files is causing your balance sheet to go out of balance". When I go to our balance sheet, several accounts are missing. Example, A/R is missing. When I go to our chart of accounts, A/R is still there with the correct balance. If I go back to the end of last year, they still show missing from balance sheet even though as of last week, they were showing up ok.What would cause these to suddenly be missing from balance sheet and how do we get back? We're on Desktop Enterprise Solutions 23.0. We have 2 other entities on QuickBooks and those files are NOT having this same issue.Thank you!

I am having an issue with our QuickBooks Desktop Reports Center. I try running a P&L report and select my date ranges and which result in Custom. When I run the report, it pulls up all old transactions that we have and a 

We would like to set up Consulting Types/Categories for consulting projects (that are set up as customer jobs).  I am trying to find a field within Quickbooks Desktop where we could tag this data and then also have it included in reporting with using the Transaction Detail report.I've looked into using a "Job Type" but it doesn't look like that is a column option in the Transaction Detail report.Is it possible to create Custom Fields?  Do custom fields need to be defined by the Item List?  (For consulting, we have many different Items assigned.)How about using Classes?Any good advice?  TIA

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I’m reaching out because I’m honestly a bit frustrated by the recent November update to QuickBooks and hoping to get some clarity. In the release notes, it was mentioned that more columns would be available in the modern reports, which was a big plus for us—we rely on these reports for integrations, and we were moving everything over to modern reports specifically because all the needed columns were finally available.However, after the update, I noticed that several of these crucial columns have suddenly disappeared (eg: addresses in vendor and customer contact lists, etc....). We’ve waited quite a while for the reports to have the right data, only to find out it’s now been taken away. This change is throwing a wrench in our processes, and I’m struggling to understand why such a shift would be made after encouraging users to adopt modern reports.Could someone please explain why these columns were removed? And is there any chance they’ll be brought back? This change is affecting our wor

We don't do payroll send our handfull of 1099 contractor info to accountant after downloading from QB.  Address is not one of the available fields on the 1099 Transaction Rpt.  How do I get this info out of Online without having to update my excel spreadsheet manually????

Why do discounted/written off invoices appear on sales in the P/L Report under cash basis accounting in Quickbooks Desktop? We have uncollectible invoices and I have written off these invoices by discounting the invoices charging it to bad debt. When I generate the P/L Statement under cash basis, these invoices appeared in the Sales line item. How to generate a P/L report that does not include these written off/discounted invoices? Thanks for the help!

This is NOT a solution! = https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-article/add-remove-payment-options/delete-customers-credit-card-number/L9jRFTLn3_US_en_US?uid=lsm21rd7 - Why? What if the person dos not what their personal finical information on the web? As the owner I don't want want this to be "stored" and an employee did it by mistake? I mention this EVERY time I post or deal with support I pay over $1000 dollars a year for this product Your developers MUST correct issue like this it is unacceptable to post "help text" or simply say you can do that!  

Hello All, I am trying to generate a report on quickbooks desktop. I need the report to include the account number, customer name and preferred delivery method (email vs mail). Is there a way to do this without transactions included… 

How can they see what dates/services they are being paid for?

I entered timesheets with hours going to specific classes (we use classes for our project tracking...used to be Desktop user, recently migrated to QBO). When we ran payroll, the time did not get charged to those classes and was not represented on the class P & L. Help!

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From time to time, I have to pay another guy to do some work for me when I'm overloaded.  This would be a 1099 situation (that's a subcontractor right?) so should I just create an expense account called "subcontractors" or something like that?

Can QBO handle fund accounting for non-profits?

Hello.  I am having the following very confusing issue hoping for some guidance. I am using fake numbers for simplicity: If I print a cash flow statement for the month of September it gives me a an ENDING cash balance of $1,650,000.If I print a Cash flow statement for the month of October it gives me a BEGINNING cash balance of $1,000,000.I would expect these two numbers to be the same.  Note: While these are fake numbers, the real numbers do indeed reflect an EVEN $650,000 difference. I perform this same exercise for August rolling into September and October Rolling into November.  The differences are an even $200,000 and $300,000 respectively. In my example above.  The $1,000,000 Beginning represents the TRUE AMOUNT of cash we had sitting in all our bank accounts at the end of the period prior.  This is true for my subsequent examples.  It is the ENDING amounts in each SOCF that are off by this very even amount.  There is so

My client has a negative accounts receivable balance due to migration from QuickBooks Desktop. However, this negative balance only appears when running reports on the cash basis. The accrual basis balances are correct.  I have found recommendations on how to fix the issue (payment applications, journal entries), but I believe these would knock the accrual basis accounts receivable out of whack. How do I fix cash basis A/R without affecting the accrual basis reports? 

I have reconciled my bank account through December 2016.  I show a balance in undeposited funds amount for September - December. How do I fix this since I have reconciled?

I want to contact someone to verify an account because month after month they charge me for the subscription but now they tell me when I want to log in that my subscription has expired. During the entire year 2024 I was not able to track the miles traveled. For this reason

Hi there, I've recently taken on managing Quickbooks for my small organisation and need to reorganise some categories in the chart of accounts to better reflect our budget lines, as well as migrate some transactions from one category to another. So I've got a couple of questions: Is there a way to batch migrate transactions from one category to another? If a sub-category is moved to sit under a different parent category, will existing transactions be automatically be recategorised as well? Thanks! Jamie

Hi,  I am doing the accounting for a brewery. The brewery buys cans and ingredients to make beer and sell it as a new product. These purchases are expensed and reflected on the P&L report. Obviously these purchases make up the cost of the can of beer. This is where the problem comes into play.  I am trying to enter the cost per can so it can be reflected on our balance sheet and accurately reflect the inventory assets that we have on hand. However, when I enter the cost per can, it shows up on our balance sheet, but also on our P&L as COGS. But we have already entered the invoices we have paid to suppliers for ingredients to produce the cans, so it doubles our COGS and overstates our expenses.  Any help would be excellent.  Thank you!

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I am working on converting from quickbooks to a different payroll software, in order to proceed I need to upload all of my employee payroll data the issue that I have is that when exporting data to excel it does not import account information, I attempted to go into each individual employee profile to gather their information manually but it does not allow me to see anything other that their routing numbers. Is there a work around for this that does not involve me requesting every employee of mine to provide me with their account information again?

Does Quickbooks Online have a report that is equivalent to the QB desktop report entitled "Income and Expense Detail"?  The Statement of Activity is close, but I need to see the details within each category.