post-recurring-entrieslisted

# Post recurring entries Categorizing the bank feed gets the cash right. It does not get the books right. The entries that make a set of accrual books mean something are the ones with no bank transaction behind them: payroll split into its parts, prepaid contracts amortized over their term, an intangible written down monthly, and the month-end entry that turns a payment processor's gross deposits into revenue and fees. These are also the entries most likely to have stopped when a bookkeeper left, because nothing prompts them. ## Read this before you start: you will be typing these **QuickBooks Online in the United States cannot import journal entries.** Not on any plan. The Canada and UK versions can, and a third-party importer app can, but in the US the choices are typing them or buying an app. So this skill's main output is a **worksheet built for typing**: entries in the order the Journal Entry screen asks for them, a running total per entry so a transposition is caught before saving, and a tick column so nobody loses their place halfway through. **Use QuickBooks' recurring templates.** Twelve monthly amortization entries are one entry plus a recurring template, not twelve pieces of typing. The worksheet groups repeating entries and flags where this works. It is the single biggest time saver here and most owners do not know the feature exists. ## Hard gates - **Every entry carries a basis**, naming the document, schedule or answer it rests on. An entry nobody can