Payroll Version 17 Manual
 
 
Export chart of accounts from QuickBooks®
To expedite your company setup, you must export your Chart of Accounts from QuickBooks® as a tab-delimited text file. It is a simple and painless procedure if you use the instructions below.
1.    Launch your QuickBooks® application.
2.    From the File menu at the top of the monitor's view area, select File > Export >  List to IFF File.
An IFF file is a tab-delineated text file in a format that can be read by most text readers, spreadsheet applications, and word processing programs.
3.    Mark the Chart of Accounts checkbox, and then click the OK button.
4.    In the next screen, enter COA.iff in the Save As box.
5.    From the Where popup menu, choose Desktop as the destination for the file.
6.    Click the Save button.
A message will display informing you of a successful export. Now, when you run the Setup Wizard, the utility will be able to find your chart of accounts information.
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