Enter Owner Equity in QuickBooks

Creating the Equity Accounts

To create the equity account:

• Select Gear icon which is present on top right and after that Chart of Accounts
• Then from top right select New
• After that choose Equity which is present under Category Type
• Then select either partner’s Equity or Owner’s Equity, based upon the situation you are in
• Get the account name filled and also the remaining fields present in section, if required
• Click on Finish

In case of multiple owners, set up the Partner’s Equity account separately.

You may also want to set them as the sub-accounts as shown below:

• Partner’s Equity > Lee’s Equity > Distributions.
• Partner’s Equity > Pat’s Equity > Distributions.
• Partner’s Equity > Lee’s Equity > Contributions.
• Partner’s Equity > Pat’s Equity > Contributions.

If you are not looking forward to tracking the distributions and contributions separately, then those accounts can be omitted.
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Adding the sub-account

• To create the account, follow the above mentioned procedure
• Check the checkbox of Is sub-account
• Then get the parent chosen of sub-account
• Make sure that the parent account chosen by you is of same type. For example, the sub account is the expense account then parent chosen by you should also be the expense account

Creating the partners and owners as the Supplier or Vendor

• To do this, firstly go to the Dashboard
• Then select Expenses present at left and after that Vendor/Supplier from the top
• From right, select the new Supplier or Vendor
• Get the information entered
• Click on Save

Issues users face

How the money is deposited to the owner’s equity? Information is removed by you from the forums, but you are confused. You own a business account and all the deposits and payments go to this account. Now what happens sometimes is that your business account does not have enough funds and then you take the money from your personal account, so that transactions are made.

The problem which you face is that, how to put or deposit your personal money in the Owners Equity? This further will be deposited to the business account. Also, you want to know that whether QuickBooks will be able to track that what amount was used in business from the personal funds?

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Need Professional Help?

Though QuickBooks ensures that the financial and account management becomes easy, but there are instances when you may face some issues. In case you are having some road blocks and queries, just get in touch with the SMB QuickBooks tech support helpdesk at smbaccountants.com. Experts at SMB will handle all your issues efficiently and wisely. QuickBooks technical support team will listen to your problem carefully and ensure that timely solution is provided for the same.

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