Chapter 2: Preparing Financial Statements and Reports
In This Chapter
Producing a report
Working with the Report window
Modifying a report
Processing multiple reports
QuickBooks produces — oh, I don’t know — about 100 different financial statements and reports. I tried to count them for purposes of writing this chapter but lost track after I had counted 90-some reports. I figured that was close enough for my purposes here.
Because QuickBooks contains so many reports, I don’t provide individualized descriptions of each report in this chapter. Rather, I talk about some of the stuff that you need to do before you prepare financial statements. Then, after covering those basics, I talk about how you produce and modify reports, and about some of the useful tools that QuickBooks supplies for working with reports.
Some Wise Words Up Front
This is an obvious point, but you should note that the reports you produce in QuickBooks are only as good as the data file. If you have good, rich information in your QuickBooks data file, if it doesn’t contain too many mistakes, and if all the transactions ...
