By synchronizing your
real-world bank accounts with the bank accounts in QuickBooks, you can download
your bank balances and transactions into your QuickBooks company file so you’ll
always know how much cash you have on hand. (The connection you set up between
the two is called bank feeds to differentiate it from online banking that you
perform by logging into your bank account outside of QuickBooks.) That way,
before repaying your aunt the money she lent