QuickBooks 2007 For Dummies

by Stephen L. Nelson

Overview

Keep your small business finances in tip-top form

Manage your business accounting and financial management tasks—quickly and accurately

If you're like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. That's where this handy guide comes in. Written by a CPA, it quickly walks you through bookkeeping basics -- and shows how QuickBooks can put your accounts in order so you can spend less time with the books and more time on business.

Discover how to

• Build the perfect budget
• Prepare customer invoices and record sales
• Produce common financial statements
• Manage inventory
• Simplify tax return preparation
• Balance accounts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470072783
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/20/2006
Series:	For Dummies Books
Pages:	408
Sales rank:	917,893
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Stephen L. Nelson, CPA, MBA (finance), MS (taxation), has a simple purpose in life: He wants to help you (and people like you) manage your business finances by using computers. Oh, sure, this personal mandate won’t win him a Nobel Prize or anything, but it’s his own little contribution to the world.
Steve’s experiences mesh nicely with his special purpose. He’s a CPA in Redmond, Washington. He’s an adjunct professor of taxation (S corporations and limited liability companies) at Golden Gate University’s graduate tax school. And, heck, he even used to work as a senior consultant and CPA with Arthur Andersen & Co. (er, yeah, that Arthur Andersen –– but, hey, it was 20 years ago). Steve, whose books have sold more than 4 million copies in English and have been translated into 11 other languages, is also the bestselling author of Quicken 2007 For Dummies (Wiley).

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Quickly into QuickBooks.

Chapter 1: QuickBooks: The Heart of Your Business.

Chapter 2: Answering Mr. Wizard.

Chapter 3: Populating the QuickBooks Lists.

Part II: Daily Entry Tasks.

Chapter 4: Creating Invoices and Credit Memos.

Chapter 5: Reeling In the Dough.

Chapter 6: Paying the Bills.

Chapter 7: Inventory Magic.

Chapter 8: Keeping Your Checkbook.

Chapter 9: Paying with Plastic.

Part III: Stuff You Do from Time to Time.

Chapter 10: Printing Checks.

Chapter 11: Payroll.

Chapter 12: Building the Perfect Budget.

Chapter 13: Online with QuickBooks.

Part IV: Housekeeping Chores.

Chapter 14: The Balancing Act.

Chapter 15: Reporting on the State of Affairs.

Chapter 16: Job Estimating, Billing, and Tracking.

Chapter 17: File Management Tips.

Chapter 18: Fixed Assets and Vehicle Lists.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: (Almost) Ten Tips for Business Owners.

Chapter 20: Tips for Handling (Almost) Ten Tricky Situations.

Chapter 21: (Almost) Ten Secret Business Formulas.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Installing QuickBooks in Ten Easy Steps.

Appendix B: If Numbers Are Your Friends.

Appendix C: Sharing QuickBooks Files.

Index.