category instead: I’m very confused about the difference between an Account (Like my bank account) and a “Category” (like “Personal: Auto”).
this is intuit messing things up ONLY in QBO
categories in the QBO chart of accounts, are the accounts.
For some ridiculous reason you open the Chart of accounts, click new (for new account), and you create a new category instead of an account
yet when you are done, the new category is […]
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