QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore

Overview

QuickBooks 2010 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual takes you beyond QuickBooks' help resources: you not only learn how the program works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense.

QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions.

• Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company
• Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income
• Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks
• Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center
• Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center
• Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit
• Share information with your accountant quickly and easily

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2010 for Windows.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596804022
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/03/2009
Series:	Missing Manual Series
Pages:	678
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous planner, whether setting up software demos, cooking gourmet meals, or scheduling a vacation to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. When she isn't managing projects for clients, Bonnie writes about project management, small business accounting, personal finance, investing, and technology. She's also branching out into other "dry" topics with articles for the Wine Enthusiast. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy to understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor.



Bonnie is the award-wining author of more than a dozen books including Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, Project 2007: The Missing Manual, the Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook (which won an APEX Award of Distinction), Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains, cycles, rehabilitates horses, cooks gourmet food, and, most importantly, tries saying no to additional work assignments.

Table of Contents

• Missing Credits
• Introduction
• Part I: Getting Started
  • Chapter 1: Creating a Company File
  • Chapter 2: Getting Around in QuickBooks
  • Chapter 3: Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
  • Chapter 4: Setting Up Customers and Jobs
  • Chapter 5: Setting Up Invoice Items
  • Chapter 6: Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
  • Chapter 7: Managing QuickBooks Files
• Part II: Bookkeeping
  • Chapter 8: Tracking Time and Mileage
  • Chapter 9: Paying for Expenses
  • Chapter 10: Invoicing
  • Chapter 11: Producing Statements
  • Chapter 12: Transaction Timesavers
  • Chapter 13: Managing Accounts Receivable
  • Chapter 14: Doing Payroll
  • Chapter 15: Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, and Petty Cash
  • Chapter 16: Making Journal Entries
  • Chapter 17: Generating Financial Statements
  • Chapter 18: Performing End-of-Year Tasks
• Part III: Managing Your Business
  • Chapter 19: Managing Inventory
  • Chapter 20: Budgeting and Planning
  • Chapter 21: Working with QuickBooks Reports
• Part IV: QuickBooks Power
  • Chapter 22: Online Banking Services
  • Chapter 23: Configuring Preferences to Fit Your Company
  • Chapter 24: Integrating QuickBooks with Other Programs
  • Chapter 25: Customizing QuickBooks
  • Chapter 26: Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure
• Part V: Appendixes
  • Installing QuickBooks
  • Help, Support, and Other Resources
• Colophon