Accounting with QuickBooks is fun and interesting. QuickBook helps to maintain accounts for a company with ease. It not only helps to save time but a lot of money that a company would pay if it keeps experts to maintain accounts. Perfect software for every business as it simplifies the bookkeeping methods of maintaining accounts and tracking bills, invoices, budgets, and more. Merging 2  QuickBooks accounts that are of the same type is possible with this accounting software. As the merging of the accounts is a process that cannot be altered. Therefore, before starting the merging procedure one needs to make sure that the accounts must be of the same nature and type.

Steps For Merging Two Different Accounts Into One

• When using the QuickBook software to merge the accounts. One needs to make sure that both the accounts are of the same level. If not then:-
• Chart Of Accounts: Go to the chart of accounts and then one needs to drag the diamond symbol on the account that needs to be changed to be merged into the other.
• Editing Account: By clicking the “edit account” one can continue the merging process by editing accounts to make it similar.
• Change Account Name:  here one needs to change the account type to make both the accounts merge together. Creating a duplicate name for example for “advertisement” edit it as marketing. As soon as we do it QuickBook will ask us if we really want to do this step. As an account already exists in the name of marketing. 
• After the merging accounts into one, you need to “save” the accounts and then give your approval by clicking on “yes”. This step is important to complete the process of merging of accounts.

Why Is It Necessary To Merge The Accounts In The QuickBooks If Two Accounts Are Similar?

• If two accounts look similar in nature then it is always better to merge the accounts. This makes the “ Chart Of Accounts” within the QuickBook less complicated. 
• For making the financial reports and accounts more effective and efficient merging is the best way.
•  Furthermore, this makes an understanding of the QuickBooks much simpler.

Multiple users using the QuickBook accounts in a company make the accounts tangled and messy. Even when the company is having huge turnovers and making huge profits then too the accounts become complex. Further, this makes the chart of accounts filled with too many transactions. 

For example, if one of the users is adding “Expenses” under the same head and the other user is writing expenses under “Costs Incurred”. Both the accounts are related to expenses itself. Therefore, it is better to merge both the accounts and give it one head as “Expenses” which will be common for both the accounts. This will help the new as well as existing users to understand the QuickBook accounting procedure in a much better way. Hence, making the QuickBook chart of accounts simple, straightforward, and less duplicated.

Consolidating the duplicate accounts does not let the user lose the transactions recorded and is both effective for the users as well as the company itself.