Lists: Describe your particular business

QuickBooks organizes many of the basic building blocks of doing business into "lists". This is where you tell QuickBooks what your business looks like.

In Chapter 4 we worked with the Chart of Accounts, a "list" of all the accounts you use in your business. This chapter concentrates mainly on Items and Names (the whats and whos of your business). Many other lists XE "lists" appear in QuickBooks. If you click on Lists in the menu bar and at the bottom of the menu on Other Lists, you should see the following entries.

• Chart of Accounts*
• Items
• Payroll items*
• Customers
• Vendors
• Employees*
• Other Names
• Customer Types
• Vendor Types
• Job Types
• Classes
• Terms
• Payment Methods
• Ship via
• Reminders
• To-do Notes
• Customer messages
• Memorized Transactions*
• Time Activities*

* Entities discussed in other places:

Maintenance and reporting of all lists is as described in Chapter 4, Chart of Accounts.

Payroll items are an entity unto themselves, found on a list entirely separate from the items list.