How to manually add an account to your chart of accounts in QuickBooks Online

While you can automatically add most bank and credit card accounts to your chart of accounts when you connect them to online banking, there are some accounts that you’ll need to add manually, like loans and fixed assets.

Let’s go over how to manually add an account to your chart of accounts and why the opening balance is so important. Then we’ll go over how to add multiple accounts at the same time.


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