The companies you practice in
QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step has you keep the books for three companies in QuickBooks Online. Lite uses Craig’s Landscaping, Intuit’s free sample company. Standard adds two businesses you set up yourself, each with its own website.
Lite and Standard
Craig’s Landscaping
Intuit’s free sample company, in the QuickBooks Online Test Drive. It opens in your browser with nothing to set up, so it is where everyone starts.
- Who it belongs to
- Intuit, in the Test Drive
- In the book
- Hands-on practice: chapters 1–8 plus two bonus chapters
- QuickBooks account
- Not needed
- Good to know
- It resets when you close it
Standard
Imagine Photography
A photography studio with a camera shop, in San Jose and Walnut Creek. Doug Wood owns it, and he has just hired you to keep the books in QuickBooks Online.
- Owner
- Doug Wood
- Locations
- San Jose · Walnut Creek
- Structure
- S corporation, files Form 1120S
- In the book
- The Do It Yourself exercise at the end of chapters 2–8 and 10–15
- QuickBooks account
- Class invite, or a free one you set up
Standard
YinYang Graphic Design
MaryBeth Yang's design studio at 400 Broad St, Seattle. Design work on one side, an online store on the other. You set up its books from the very first day.
- Owner
- MaryBeth Yang
- Studio
- 600 square feet at 400 Broad St, Seattle
- Structure
- Single-member LLC, files as a sole proprietor
- In the book
- The chapter 9 case study and the chapter 16 capstone
- QuickBooks account
- Class invite, or a free one you set up
Start in Craig’s Landscaping.
Chapter 4 is free to read in your browser, with its hands-on steps in Intuit’s Test Drive. Standard opens Imagine Photography and YinYang Graphic Design.