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I cannot thank you enough for this video! I have been searching all week for this clear explanation and you gave one in LESS than 10 minutes! I apparently still needed to close out my books from 2020 before moving forward with closing out last year. This saved me a huge tax and audit nightmare! THANK YOU!!!!
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Quickbooks needs to hire you to make instructional videos for them! I have spent countless hours looking for a clear explanation on how to handle negative values in the owner distributions accounts, and FINALLY got my answer in this video! You do an excellent job explaining the mechanics. Thanks!
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I couldn't for the life of me find why I should close out owner's equity into retained earnings on Jan 1st vs Dec 31st., but you explained it perfectly. Thank you for that information!
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Thank youso much for your amazing video, it has helped me a lot. Especially the tip to close the entries on the first day of the next financial year. I was hesitant on that and you clarified everything :-)
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In some countries you are not allowed by law to draw from retained earning or equity , however you can distribute dividend . So draws are not allowed for a limited liability company in some countries.
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Do you have a video to set-up owners equity and draw? I have a C-Corp and have retained earnings, how do i take distributions? I need to set up the equity and draw accounts. Also how can i write a check to myself. Thanks a lot.
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Do you have a video for the 1120s for the Sch-K member distributions ? I recently been processing S-Corp 1120S but struggle with the negative member distributions. Also how did you learn all your knowledge?
Thank you so much! This is what I was searching for and found your video. Your explanation was useful for me to confirm the next steps I needed to take in closing out a owner's draw and owner's investment from 2020. The balances were growing and wanted to wait to find and pursue the correct steps. I handled this with 2 Journal Entries. The 1st was to close out Owner's Draw which showed a negative and another JE to close out Owner's Investment both moving to Retained Earnings. I still have a few more items to clean up on the Balance sheet and wanted to ask if the step I took on the following is accurate. There was a negative PayPal balance showing since I did not connect PayPal to QBO, rather I manually added this to the COA and there were a few deposits that I added through the bank feed; and to zero this one out I added a JE moving the negative balance to open balance equity account (I found this solution online). Then, added one last JE moving the new balance shown in open balance equity to each of the owner's equity at 50% since they are a partnership.
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Should I close out all equity accounts to RE at the end of the year? For example I have balances in Estimated Taxes and Opening Balance Equity in addition to my Owners Dist/Contribution accounts.
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Thank you! This helps! Am I understanding this correctly? Net income and Owner Draw/Shareholder Distribution will both roll into RE on Jan 1 of the next year (Net Income-automatically and Draws-Journal Entry). Example- So if shareholders take an income distribution each quarter (S-corp) based on that quarter's income, essentially, the 2 will cancel each other out and there will be no change in RE?
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Thanks, we have been struggling with this issue. I have a question. Since I have not been making these closing entries for the time we have been using QB Online, 3 years, how do I catch up? Year by year or just one adjusting entry?
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This is what I do for S-corps every end of year.. I am wondering if we have to do this too for partnerships, disregarded entity or sole proprietorship.. I am hoping you will notice my comment and provide clarification. * I have subscribed to your weekly tips* :D
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This video was super helpful but I have one question... We have been in business since 2016 but just started using QB in 2022. I have followed this to move amounts to Retained Earnings from Owner Equity Accounts. Do I follow the same thing to make my opening balance equity 0? It contains the opening balances of my bank accounts and credit card account entered when starting with QB last year.
Thank you so much for this valuable video . I have a question . I have a client that has two Quickbooks accounts , now I am cleaning the second account that started in 2021 and contain transactions only for 2021 , 2022 and 2023 of course . The problem is that 2020 is in the other account and obviously the 2021 retained earnings is blank. Do you think that I should extract the 2020 reports from the other QBO and add it into this other account ?. I don’t want to make a mess .
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If it is a partnership, does each partner need their own retained earnings account? or just their own contributions and distributions and a combined retained earnings? I need a good partnership video
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So. What I understood from your video is that the net income automatically closes into retained earnings each year. Then I went to QBO, looked at the balance sheet for 2022, and then at the January 1 balance sheet and there was no change in retained earnings. I am still confused.
I love this but when I tried to move the owner's draw into retained earnings, quickbooks wouldn't let me. It stated that you can't do this with two equity accounts?
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If operating on cash basis, technically my basis will start at 0 every year correct? unless i have retained earnings then whatever the retained earnings are, that would be my new basis for the year?
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Um this is amazing!! Thank you for explaining. Question: for an S-corp, do I enter in a beginning retained earnings amount for the year prior to when they started using QB? We entered in all their liabilities beginning balances and assets. But what about retained earnings for the previous year?
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I just discovered your channel. Thanks so much for this video! I just learned of the need to do this step and was preparing to make journal entries today for the end of each year to do so. However, I noticed that when I run a balance sheet for 1/1/2019 (our first day to rely on QB data) it shows a large negative number for retained earnings. Yet our 2018 data is incomplete and we didn't rely on QB for that year (we were just importing data). It seems like that number would skew our Retained Earnings for the following years...is that correct? If so, do you have any advice on how to fix this?
Yes, everything you entered can impact your retained earnings. You can check with your tax professional to see if it’s worth adding and adjusting transactions.
Hi Tani, Thanks for reaching out. Yes, the process would be the same. You can always confirm with your tax-professional if they want to change any of your accounts in your LLC. It will depend on if you elected to file in S-Corp. If you’d like to learn more about how to optimize QuickBooks for your business, I recommend checking out our Confidence with QuickBooks program. To learn more you can attend our Customizing QuickBooks workshop. Save your seat here: CandusKampfer.com/workshop Have a great day, Samantha, Team Candus
Thank you so much! You explained this so well, and I was able to easily understand. I took 100% of the loss in my partnership, does this need to be deducted from my equity account?
Are shareholder accounts also closed to RE? Do you not need to track the shareholder's investment for S- Corps? A CPA told me to close RE to the shareholder's account.
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In my Chart of Accounts, I cannot see the Retained Earnings. I don't know if this is a difference between the US and Canadian versions of QBO, but QBO won't allow a JE to Retained Earnings.
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Opening Balance as o 12/31/2021 shows as -9,337.50 but 12/31/2020 as $5,000.00. Opening Balance Equity was changed back to $5,000 as of 12/01/2021. It would be more consisnt if the user or accountant doesn't change Opening Balance Equity. The video runs very fast. This is just my thought watching your video. Thank you for the video.
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Your QBO explanations / tutorials are the best on TH-cam. Thank you!
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I cannot thank you enough for this video! I have been searching all week for this clear explanation and you gave one in LESS than 10 minutes! I apparently still needed to close out my books from 2020 before moving forward with closing out last year. This saved me a huge tax and audit nightmare! THANK YOU!!!!
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Quickbooks needs to hire you to make instructional videos for them! I have spent countless hours looking for a clear explanation on how to handle negative values in the owner distributions accounts, and FINALLY got my answer in this video! You do an excellent job explaining the mechanics. Thanks!
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@@CandusKampfer Why does opening balance equity is negative?
I couldn't for the life of me find why I should close out owner's equity into retained earnings on Jan 1st vs Dec 31st., but you explained it perfectly. Thank you for that information!
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You are a life saver, I've been searching hours for this. Thank so much.
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Managed to do it for my OBE- Thank you! Plus it doesn’t give you any errors even if you've reconciled your accounts prior
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You are awesome! It has taken me forever to find how to do this and what happens automatically and what doesn't. Thanks so much!!!
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Thank you for the video! I saw this from a forum and u were right they did not assist her properly but you did thank you!
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Thank you so much for this. Grateful for generous accountants like you to help others
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge! As you see the numbers move you start to understand how the financials work and why they are important.
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Thank youso much for your amazing video, it has helped me a lot. Especially the tip to close the entries on the first day of the next financial year. I was hesitant on that and you clarified everything :-)
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WOW thank you I am Balance sheet illiterate this was a big help
In some countries you are not allowed by law to draw from retained earning or equity , however you can distribute dividend . So draws are not allowed for a limited liability company in some countries.
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Great Tutorial... explained exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
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Do you have a video to set-up owners equity and draw? I have a C-Corp and have retained earnings, how do i take distributions? I need to set up the equity and draw accounts. Also how can i write a check to myself. Thanks a lot.
heck ya so helpful!!
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That was a really helpful video. Thank you so much!
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You explain it maturely
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Do you have a video for the 1120s for the Sch-K member distributions ? I recently been processing S-Corp 1120S but struggle with the negative member distributions. Also how did you learn all your knowledge?
Thank you so much! This is what I was searching for and found your video. Your explanation was useful for me to confirm the next steps I needed to take in closing out a owner's draw and owner's investment from 2020. The balances were growing and wanted to wait to find and pursue the correct steps. I handled this with 2 Journal Entries. The 1st was to close out Owner's Draw which showed a negative and another JE to close out Owner's Investment both moving to Retained Earnings. I still have a few more items to clean up on the Balance sheet and wanted to ask if the step I took on the following is accurate. There was a negative PayPal balance showing since I did not connect PayPal to QBO, rather I manually added this to the COA and there were a few deposits that I added through the bank feed; and to zero this one out I added a JE moving the negative balance to open balance equity account (I found this solution online). Then, added one last JE moving the new balance shown in open balance equity to each of the owner's equity at 50% since they are a partnership.
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Should I close out all equity accounts to RE at the end of the year? For example I have balances in Estimated Taxes and Opening Balance Equity in addition to my Owners Dist/Contribution accounts.
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Thank you! This helps! Am I understanding this correctly? Net income and Owner Draw/Shareholder Distribution will both roll into RE on Jan 1 of the next year (Net Income-automatically and Draws-Journal Entry). Example- So if shareholders take an income distribution each quarter (S-corp) based on that quarter's income, essentially, the 2 will cancel each other out and there will be no change in RE?
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Thanks, we have been struggling with this issue.
I have a question. Since I have not been making these closing entries for the time we have been using QB Online, 3 years, how do I catch up? Year by year or just one adjusting entry?
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This is what I do for S-corps every end of year.. I am wondering if we have to do this too for partnerships, disregarded entity or sole proprietorship.. I am hoping you will notice my comment and provide clarification. * I have subscribed to your weekly tips* :D
I followed your example to a t but when I run the balance sheet for the next year. It still shows the owners draw. What am I doing wrong?? Help!!
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This video was super helpful but I have one question... We have been in business since 2016 but just started using QB in 2022. I have followed this to move amounts to Retained Earnings from Owner Equity Accounts. Do I follow the same thing to make my opening balance equity 0? It contains the opening balances of my bank accounts and credit card account entered when starting with QB last year.
Thank you so much for this valuable video . I have a question . I have a client that has two Quickbooks accounts , now I am cleaning the second account that started in 2021 and contain transactions only for 2021 , 2022 and 2023 of course . The problem is that 2020 is in the other account and obviously the 2021 retained earnings is blank. Do you think that I should extract the 2020 reports from the other QBO and add it into this other account ?. I don’t want to make a mess .
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If it is a partnership, does each partner need their own retained earnings account? or just their own contributions and distributions and a combined retained earnings? I need a good partnership video
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What about the opening balance equity. Are we supposed to move that into retained earnings also?
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So. What I understood from your video is that the net income automatically closes into retained earnings each year. Then I went to QBO, looked at the balance sheet for 2022, and then at the January 1 balance sheet and there was no change in retained earnings. I am still confused.
Thanks for the clairfication.
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I love this but when I tried to move the owner's draw into retained earnings, quickbooks wouldn't let me. It stated that you can't do this with two equity accounts?
Wait-got it!
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If operating on cash basis, technically my basis will start at 0 every year correct? unless i have retained earnings then whatever the retained earnings are, that would be my new basis for the year?
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Should I also close out the opening balance equity account?
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Um this is amazing!! Thank you for explaining. Question: for an S-corp, do I enter in a beginning retained earnings amount for the year prior to when they started using QB? We entered in all their liabilities beginning balances and assets. But what about retained earnings for the previous year?
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thank you for the clarification
You're welcome!
Thank you. Very helpful video.
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I just discovered your channel. Thanks so much for this video! I just learned of the need to do this step and was preparing to make journal entries today for the end of each year to do so. However, I noticed that when I run a balance sheet for 1/1/2019 (our first day to rely on QB data) it shows a large negative number for retained earnings. Yet our 2018 data is incomplete and we didn't rely on QB for that year (we were just importing data).
It seems like that number would skew our Retained Earnings for the following years...is that correct? If so, do you have any advice on how to fix this?
Yes, everything you entered can impact your retained earnings.
You can check with your tax professional to see if it’s worth adding and adjusting transactions.
What if the company is a single member LLC, would the process be the same? Thanks
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Why does opening balance equity is negative?
Thank you so much! You explained this so well, and I was able to easily understand. I took 100% of the loss in my partnership, does this need to be deducted from my equity account?
I can't give tax advice 🤓 Please check with your tax professional.
Candus
Are shareholder accounts also closed to RE? Do you not need to track the shareholder's investment for S- Corps? A CPA told me to close RE to the shareholder's account.
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Didn’t know retain earnings could get negative. Good to know
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In my Chart of Accounts, I cannot see the Retained Earnings. I don't know if this is a difference between the US and Canadian versions of QBO, but QBO won't allow a JE to Retained Earnings.
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Candus, will the "opening balance equity", always stay the same? Or will it be reset each year?
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What is the journal entry for closing shareholder Contribution of $23,705?
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Opening Balance as o 12/31/2021 shows as -9,337.50 but 12/31/2020 as $5,000.00. Opening Balance Equity was changed back to $5,000 as of 12/01/2021. It would be more consisnt if the user or accountant doesn't change Opening Balance Equity. The video runs very fast. This is just my thought watching your video. Thank you for the video.
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Mine is saying please balance debit and credits - it won't work for me Help!!!
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Great video
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what would be the consequence if one never closed their drawing equity account? asking for a friend^^
It would show all years in the draws account 😊
How do you zero out retaining earnings
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awesome video helped me out a lot would give it two thumbs up if i could ! thanks !!!
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