QBO from zero, entering entire fiscal year from day 1. Got 2 cheque deposits for invoices that belong in the year before.
The title says it all. As I linked my bank account to QBO starting from day 1 of my fiscal year, I notice that somewhere on the day #10 I got 2 cheque deposits. Those 2 deposits were payments from my customers who I invoiced in the year before.
With accrual method, the income is considered at the time invoicing i.e. in the year before. I've already paid taxes for these 2 deposits accordingly.
Now that I go to review the transactions and proceed to [Add] them, they are reflected in the current year and I can see how my taxes go up as I add them. If I undo, the taxes go back down.
How do I Add these transactions properly, so that QBO understands that this income belongs to the former year and should not be taken into consideration in the current year I am entering? Is there a special categorization that accomplishes this? I see a category "Opening Balance Equity". Sounds logical to throw it in there as this technically IS a balance and income accrued in the year before.
But I am not an accountant, so I will leave this to our QBO experts.
Please help!
