This window shows a chronological listing of the transactions in the bank, credit card, asset, liability, or equity account you selected. For bank accounts, you can enter new checks and deposits; for credit card accounts, you can enter new charges and credits; and for asset, liability, and equity accounts you can enter adjustments to the account. You can also edit, with some restrictions, transactions that QuickBooks entered in the register.
Your company assets are the things that your company owns.
QuickBooks distinguishes between two types of assets:
Date | Payment or Decrease | Number or Ref |
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Type | Deposit, Charge, or Increase |
Payee or Vendor | Balance | Account |
Ending balance | Memo |
Do this... | To |
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Double-click a transaction | Display the current transaction in its original form. Use this button when you want to see the original transaction or make changes that you can't enter directly in the register. |
Click a transaction, and then choose Reports > QuickReport | Create a report that lists all transactions related to the name in the current transaction. For example, a QuickReport for a check lists all the checks you have written to that payee. |
Choose Edit > Go To | Jump to the next transaction in which a particular payee, amount, memo, or transaction number appears. Go To searches only in the current register. For details, see Jumping to a transaction in a register. |
Click the Record button | Record the current transaction. QuickBooks saves the information in the transaction and adjusts the current balance. |
Click the Restore button | Cancel changes you made to a transaction. Click Restore if you make a mistake while entering or editing a transaction. |
Click the Splits button | Distribute the amount of the transaction to more than one account. You can assign each split amount to a specific customer or job if you track job-related expenses or charge costs back to your customers. You can also assign classes to the amounts to give yourself another way to track the costs on your reports.
From a register, you can enter splits only for expenses on checks, bills, or credit card charges. To enter split detail for items — or for other kinds of transactions such as customer payments, bill payments, deposits, etc. — double-click the transaction to display it in its original form. |
Click the 1-Line checkbox | Display each transaction on one line in the register. Select this checkbox when you want the register window to display more transactions (it will show twice as many as before). |