Business Accounting & Bookkeeping

QuickBooks Online Fundamentals

Set up, manage, and review small business books with confidence in QuickBooks Online.

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.4
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the QuickBooks Online Fundamentals Course

QuickBooks Online Fundamentals is a practical Business bookkeeping course designed to help small business owners, managers, and administrative professionals use QuickBooks Online with clarity. You will learn how to set up, manage, and review small business books with confidence in QuickBooks Online while building habits that support cleaner records and better decisions.

Build Confidence Managing Business Books In QuickBooks Online

  • Learn the full small Business bookkeeping cycle from setup through month-end review.
  • Practice key QuickBooks Online workflows for invoices, expenses, bank feeds, reconciliations, and reports.
  • Understand how to organize customers, vendors, products, services, accounts, users, and permissions.
  • Develop quality control habits that help prevent errors and prepare books for accountant review.

QuickBooks Online Fundamentals teaches the core tools and workflows needed to maintain accurate small Business financial records.

This course starts with the foundations of QuickBooks Online and the small Business bookkeeping cycle, then guides you through the dashboard, menus, search tools, settings, company setup, and core preferences. You will learn how the chart of accounts supports accurate reporting and how customers, vendors, products, services, and opening balances fit into a clean bookkeeping structure.

From there, the course walks through everyday money-in and money-out workflows, including estimates, invoices, sales receipts, payments, deposits, refunds, expenses, bills, vendor credits, credit cards, loans, owner contributions, and owner draws. You will also learn how to connect bank feeds, review transactions, apply categorization rules, handle transfers and matching, prevent duplicates, and complete bank and credit card reconciliations.

QuickBooks Online Fundamentals also covers special workflows such as sales tax, 1099 contractors, payroll awareness, inventory awareness, classes, locations, projects, tags, and tracking detail. By the end of the course, you will be able to customize essential reports, review Business performance, complete a month-end review, identify common errors, apply cleanup tactics, and work more effectively with an accountant.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

2 lessons

This lesson connects QuickBooks Online to the small business bookkeeping cycle: set up the company file, capture transactions, categorize activity, reconcile accounts, review reports, and close the pe…

Lesson 2: Navigating QuickBooks Online: Dashboard, Menus, Search, and Settings

17 min
In this lesson, learners get oriented inside QuickBooks Online so they can move through the product confidently before entering transactions. The focus is on the Home dashboard, left navigation menu, …

Setup and Structure

3 lessons

Lesson 3: Company Setup, Users, Permissions, and Core Preferences

21 min
This lesson establishes the administrative foundation of a QuickBooks Online company file: company identity, user access, accountant access, and the preference settings that shape daily bookkeeping be…

Lesson 4: Chart of Accounts Fundamentals

22 min
This lesson explains how the Chart of Accounts works as the organizing structure behind QuickBooks Online. Learners will see how account types, detail types, names, and numbering choices affect transa…

Lesson 5: Customers, Vendors, Products, Services, and Opening Balances

20 min
This lesson builds the core operating lists that QuickBooks Online uses every day: customers, vendors, products, services, and opening balances. Learners will see how these records support invoices, b…

Money In

2 lessons

Lesson 6: Sales Workflow: Estimates, Invoices, Sales Receipts, and Payments

23 min
This lesson explains the practical sales workflow in QuickBooks Online: when to use an estimate, invoice, sales receipt, or receive payment transaction, and how each one affects customer balances, inc…

Lesson 7: Deposits, Undeposited Funds, Refunds, and Customer Credits

20 min
This lesson explains how QuickBooks Online handles money received before it reaches the bank register. You will learn when to use Undeposited Funds , how to create bank deposits that match real bank a…

Money Out

2 lessons

Lesson 8: Expense Workflow: Expenses, Bills, Bill Payments, and Vendor Credits

23 min
This lesson explains the core QuickBooks Online workflow for money leaving the business: recording immediate expenses, entering bills to track amounts owed, paying those bills, and applying vendor cre…

Lesson 9: Credit Cards, Loans, Owner Contributions, and Owner Draws

19 min
This lesson explains how to record four common small business financing and equity activities in QuickBooks Online: credit card activity, loan proceeds and payments, owner contributions, and owner dra…

Banking

2 lessons

Lesson 10: Bank Feeds: Connecting Accounts and Reviewing Transactions

22 min
This lesson explains how bank feeds work in QuickBooks Online, from connecting checking, savings, and credit card accounts to reviewing downloaded transactions without creating duplicates. Learners wi…

Lesson 11: Categorization Rules, Transfers, Matching, and Duplicate Prevention

21 min
This lesson teaches students how to handle bank feed transactions in QuickBooks Online with accuracy and control. Students learn when to create bank rules, how to review suggested categories before ac…

Reconciliation

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Bank and Credit Card Reconciliations

24 min
In this lesson, students learn how to reconcile bank and credit card accounts in QuickBooks Online using a monthly statement as the source of truth. The focus is on confirming the beginning balance, e…

Special Workflows

2 lessons

Lesson 13: Sales Tax, 1099 Contractors, Payroll, and Inventory Awareness

24 min
This lesson introduces four specialized workflows that small business bookkeepers must recognize even if they do not manage every detail themselves: sales tax, 1099 contractors, payroll, and inventory…

Lesson 14: Classes, Locations, Projects, Tags, and Tracking Detail

18 min
This lesson explains how to use QuickBooks Online tracking tools to add meaningful detail without cluttering the chart of accounts. Learners will compare classes, locations, projects, tags, customer a…

Reporting

2 lessons

Lesson 15: Essential Reports: Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and A/R Aging

24 min
This lesson teaches students how to use four core QuickBooks Online reports to understand business performance, financial position, cash movement, and customer collection risk. Students will learn wha…

Lesson 16: Customizing Reports and Reviewing Business Performance

20 min
In this lesson, students learn how to customize QuickBooks Online reports so the information shown matches a real business question. The focus is on practical report settings such as date ranges, acco…

Close and Cleanup

2 lessons

Lesson 17: Month-End Review and Bookkeeping Quality Control

24 min
This lesson turns everyday QuickBooks Online bookkeeping into a repeatable month-end review process. Students learn how to check completeness, spot common coding errors, review key balances, confirm r…

Lesson 18: Common Errors, Cleanup Tactics, and Working With an Accountant

22 min
This lesson focuses on the cleanup work that keeps QuickBooks Online reliable after day-to-day transactions have been entered. Students learn how to identify common errors, diagnose where they came fr…
About Your Instructor
Professor Nathan Ward

Professor Nathan Ward

Professor Nathan Ward guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.