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Bookkeeping Basics: Understanding Retained Earnings

Bookkeeping Basics: Understanding Retained Earnings

Update: 2025-03-20
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What exactly is retained earnings, and how does QuickBooks Online handle it? In this short bookkeeping basics lesson, Rachel Barnett breaks down how retained earnings work, where to find it on your balance sheet, and why you don’t need to manually update it in QuickBooks. She also explains what a positive or negative retained earnings balance means for your business. Whether you're a bookkeeper or a small business owner, this quick explanation will help you understand this important accounting concept. Tune in and learn something new today!

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Bookkeeping Basics: Understanding Retained Earnings

Bookkeeping Basics: Understanding Retained Earnings

Rachel Barnett