Learning Exercises

YinYang is the company you build yourself. The Chapter 9 case study gives you the business and its transactions, with no step-by-step instructions, the way real bookkeeping arrives. Chapter 16 is the capstone.

Every exercise on this page is part of the Standard tier.

  1. 9Chapter 9Case Study: YinYang Graphic Design
    1. Create the company and enter its settings from Table 9-2.
    2. Set up Washington sales tax, the chart of accounts and three classes.
    3. Add the design services, the store's merchandise and a bundle.
    4. Enter a month of business, from MaryBeth's first deposit to the last bill.
    5. Import the bank feed and reconcile the checking account.
    6. Prepare eleven reports and answer the analysis questions.

    Smart-graded reports

    • Product/Service List
    • Reconciliation Report
    • Balance Sheet
    • Profit and Loss (Accrual)
    • Profit and Loss (Cash)
    • Profit and Loss by Class
    • Statement of Cash Flows
    • A/R Aging Summary
    • Sales by Product/Service Summary
    • Profit and Loss by Client
    • Sales Tax Liability
  2. 16Chapter 16Capstone Project: YinYang Graphic Design
    1. Set up the Marketing Lunch-and-Learn project for JJ's Boutique.
    2. Add Mandy Sandri as a contractor, and a 10% price rule for workshop clients.
    3. Enter the next month's business, including a barter with JJ's Boutique.
    4. Set up payroll for Hartley McGill in a payroll trial company, and run it.
    5. Prepare the reports and answer the analysis questions.

    Smart-graded reports

    • Lunch-and-Learn Project Profitability
    • Profit and Loss for JJ's Boutique
    • Estimates & Progress Invoicing Summary
    • Inventory Valuation Summary
    • Contractor Payments
    • Sales Tax Liability
    • Profit and Loss by Class
    • Employee Details
    • Total Payroll Cost
    • Payroll Tax Payments
    • Trial Balance

YinYang Graphic Design lives in a book

You keep its books in QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step, by Alicia Katz Pollock. Its exercises are part of the Standard tier. The student demo walks you through chapter 4 of the book, with no account.