QuickBooks Company Setup

How to setup a new company in QuickBooks - Customized Homepage

The image shown below is a screenshot of the homepage that QuickBooks will take you to when you hit finish in the interview window. The icons you see will be the ones QuickBooks has chosen for you, based on the choices you made during the interview. The homepage can be further customized if you later realize you will be needing more from QuickBooks than you originally thought, or if you decide to change the way you do business. See How to Customize My QuickBooks Homepage to help get you started.

QuickBooks 2008 through 2011

There is a "QuickBooks Coach" as well as a "Tutorial" as shown in the image below which is designed to help you navigate QuickBooks. You can use it to help you get familiar with QuickBooks and close it and vice versa as your need for it arise.

Now that you have completed your interview, you may want to continue here:

• Setting Up My Vendor Accounts, and Entering Their Opening Balances
• Setting Up My Customers Accounts, and Entering Their Opening Balances
• Setting Up My Bank Accounts, and Entering Their Opening Balances
• Setting Up My Employees Files, and Entering Their W4 Information
• Customizing My Chart of Accounts

• How Do I Start a New
  Company in QuickBooks?
• Where Should I Save
  My Company Files?
• What is a Peer-To-Peer Network?
• What is a Client-Server Network?
• How Do I Export
  Specific Data from One
  Company to Another in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Import
  Specific Data from One
  Company to Another in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Navigate
  to Each Company in
  QuickBooks?

Customer

• How Do I Set Up a
  New Customer in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Add a
  Customer Job in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Create an
  Invoice in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Record a
  Customer Payment for
  an Invoice?
• How Do I Check
  Customer Balance in
  QuickBooks?
• How Do I Generate
  Customer Statement
  in QuickBooks?

Banking

• How Do I Set Up a
  Bank Account in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Reconcile a
  Bank Account in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Correct My
  Opening Balance to Reconcile My Bank Account in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Write a
  Check in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Pay a Bill
  in QuickBooks?
• What is the Difference
  Between Writing a
  Check and Making a
  Bill Payment?

Vendor

• How Do I Set Up a
  New Vendor in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Enter
  Bills in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Enter Bill
  Payments in QuickBooks?