QuickBooks 2018 All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 3

Tracking Inventory and Items

IN THIS CHAPTER

Viewing your Item list

Expanding the Item list

Changing items

Modifying physical counts and inventory values

Modifying prices and price levels

Dealing with a manufacturing firm’s inventory

If you’ve worked with QuickBooks, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Item list is a key piece of your QuickBooks accounting system. The Item list identifies each of the things that you sell. The Item list also identifies other things that appear in your invoices and — if you use them — purchase orders.

In this chapter, I talk about how you work with the QuickBooks Item list — more specifically, how you look at and use the information in the Item list to track and tally what you sell. I explain how to add information to the list and how to edit information that’s already in the list. What’s more, I talk about three accounting tasks that are ...