Budgeting is often a major concern for every business. However, this concern is resolved with QuickBooks accounting software. It possesses a feature that allows the user to create a budget and forecast in the software itself following some simple set of steps. If you are interested in finding out what those steps are, then reading this post till the end will definitely work. In this post, we will be highlighting the steps involved in creating a budget or forecast in QuickBooks accounting software. Thus, make sure to go through the blog carefully and follow the necessary steps. However, if you need our assistance at any point of time, then contact our QuickBooks support team at +1-844-405-0906 is recommended. They will help you out to QuickBooks update download and important company files to the latest release version. We are a team of technically sound professionals who work round the clock to provide the best possible support services.
Steps to budget and forecast in QuickBooks
The user can perform the below set of steps to set up budget in QuickBooks
Step 1: The first step is to review last year's data
- Ensure to set the fiscal year
- And then, head to the company menu and choose my company
- After that, choose the pencil icon and report information
- Make sure that the first month of the fiscal year is correct
- And review the last fiscal year's financial reports
- Head to the report menu and also select company and financial
- Now, choose profit and loss detail or balance sheet detail
- From the Dates dropdown , select Last Fiscal Year .
- After that choose Refresh .
Step 2: Set up a budget or forecast
- The user can now create a budget
- This can be done by heading to the Company menu and hover over Planning Budgeting . After that choose Set up Budgets .
- The next step is to choose Create New Budget .
- Also, set the fiscal year for the budget, and then select Profit and Loss or Balance Sheet. After that select next tab
- If you select Profit and Loss, select either Create budget from scratch or Create budget from the previous year's actual data.
- The next step is to choose Finish.
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Coming to the end of the post, we expect that the reader might be able to successfully create a budget or forecast in QuickBooks. However, if there is any query remaining, then the user can contact our QuickBooks Premier Support experts at +1-844-405-0906 and ask them to handle the issue successfully.
