Whether you sell products or services, the first sale to a new customer often initiates a flurry of activity, including creating a new customer in QuickBooks, assigning a job for the work, and the ultimate goal of all this effort- invoicing your customer (sending a bill for what you sold that states how much the customer owes) to collect some income. You may be fond of strutting around your sales department proclaiming, “Nothing happens until somebody sells something!” As it turns out, you can quote that tired adage in your accounting department, too. Chapter 4. Setting Up Customers, Jobs, and Vendors
