How to Use QuickBooks for Personal Finances?

It is simple to organize and use personal finance in QuickBooks. It allows the organization of payments, expenses, and other transactions from one place.

Answer to the question that whether QuickBooks can be used for managing personal finances or not, is a big YES. QuickBooks is a software that can be used for managing the personal finances as well.

Features it provides ensure that even the person with little or no experience of accounting is also able to meet all the needs of their business. Though QuickBooks is labeled as the business software but it also manages the personal finances in a tremendously efficient way.

How to use QuickBooks for managing personal finances?

Process to use QuickBooks for managing personal funds is similar to what is followed to manage business accounting, there are minor differences that too just few. There is Wizard set-up that is built in the QuickBooks, it will help you to go through the steps that will help you to get started with managing the personal finances, once QuickBooks is installed.

If you are having savings account, checking account or any of the bank account then make sure that you use the Wizard setup in order to get the information connected to the QuickBooks.

In case you do not want to connect the financial accounts of yours with QuickBooks then the information could be added manually. You can use any of the way, but by using the Wizard setup your energy and time will be saved.

Setting up the Vendors in QuickBooks

To set up the vendor in QuickBooks:

• Tap on the tab of Vendor Center, which is present at your QuickBooks account’s top
• After that select New Vendor

This may initially appear to be bit of confusing, but vendors are the part of the bills that you are paying when it comes to personal finances. For example, your cable bill, electric bill, rent, groceries and car payment all are labeled as the vendor.

Keep in mind that you have to get the new vendor created for the bill of each type. Once the vendors are set up get the transaction added to the account for the payments that were sent out by you.

Remember that every transaction should have the specific vendor that is associated to it. Keep on doing this for the complete month and you will be able to keep up perfectly with all your personal finances.

Three ways of Using QuickBooks to Manage your Personal Finances

1. First Way: Managing the Cash Flow

With QuickBooks you can easily manage your cashflow. Ensure that you are adding the financial data regularly in QuickBooks for all your accounts and later you can easily drill down on then to know the situation of your cash flow.

2. Second Way: Automating the Income and Bills

With QuickBooks you can easily automate your savings income and bills. You do not have to keep the manual track of your income and bills anymore. Keep your bills on the auto payment in order to hit the checking account or credit card. By selecting the option for credit card, you can easily control your cash flow and in return you can always win the rewards associated with credit card.

3. Third Way: Reconciling the QuickBooks account

In order to be sure that the reports you are looking at are accurate, ensure that your QuickBooks account is reconciled. It is of vital importance to reconcile all the QuickBooks accounts of your and not just the bank accounts.

Issues that users face while managing personal finance on QuickBooks
You may not be aware of which version of QuickBooks you can use to manage your personal finances.

Need Professional Help?

There might be other issues that you may face and to get the correct and satisfactory answers of the same, you can always get in touch with our SMB QuickBooks tech support helpdesk. Experts at SMB are always ready to serve you. We have a contact number that you can dial smbaccountants.com to have a one-on-one conversation with QuickBooks helpline.

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