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16, January
2019

Accounting Tips: Understand Differences Between Divisions and Classes

The ability to sort accounting transactions by user-defined divisions and classes in QuickBooks is a great way to track and analyze what areas of your business are the most profitable. Unfortunately, many businesses and accounting specialists aren’t taking full advantage of this option because they don’t clearly understand the difference between divisions and classes and how to use them. Hopefully the following examples will clear up some of the confusion.

Using Divisions in QuickBooks

If you want your accounting or outsourced bookkeeping and controller services to provide separate profit and loss reports for different areas of your business, creating divisions will allow them to do that. Here are examples of divisions setups in QuickBooks for different industry models:

  • Accounting Services: Payroll, Accounts Payable, Billing, Full Service
  • Mechanical Contractor: Residential Service, Commercial Service, New Construction
  • Construction Contractor: Bathrooms, Kitchens, Whole House, Repairs

As you can see with the mechanical contractor example, how you choose to divide your services is totally up to you and may be different from one business to another. By selecting a division when creating an invoice, the revenue from the invoice will be appropriately tagged for that division. Select a division when entering a vendor bill to log costs of materials or services specific to that task. With this process in place, a business can then run Division Profit & Loss Reports, showing the income, costs and gross profit on distinct roles within the company.

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4 Accounting Tasks You Should Do Each Week

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21, November
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Looking Forward: The Age of Cryptocurrency in Accounting

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2017

Telecom, Travel and Technology: What to Consider When Managing the Three T's of Expense Management

Managing a profitable company is all about controlling costs enough that revenues outpace expenses and margins are.

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2017

Why Financial Statements Prepared by Outsourced Accounting Services Are More Reliable

Whether you want your business to have a single owner forever or you're actively seeking investors, you need to have.

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8, August
2017

How to Get Your Employees Excited About Accounting

As a business owner or manager, you know how important understanding your numbers is. But if front-line employees who.

 
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