QuickBooks 2015: The Missing Manual: The Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2015

by Bonnie Biafore

Overview

How can you make your bookkeeping workflow smoother and faster? Simple. With this Missing Manual, you’re in control: you get step-by-step instructions on how and when to use specific features, along with basic bookkeeping and accounting advice to guide you through the learning process. Discover new and improved features like the Insights dashboard and easy report commenting. You’ll soon see why this book is the Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2015.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get started fast. Quickly set up accounts, customers, jobs, and invoice items.
• Follow the money. Track everything from billable and unbillable time and expenses to income and profit.
• Keep your company financially fit. Examine budgets and actual spending, income, inventory, assets, and liabilities.
• Gain insights. Open a new dashboard that highlights your company’s financial activity and status the moment you log in.
• Spend less time on bookkeeping. Create and reuse bills, invoices, sales receipts, and timesheets.
• Find key info. Use QuickBooks’ Search and Find features, as well as the Vendor, Customer, Inventory, and Employee Centers.
  
  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491947135
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/08/2014
Pages:	800
Sales rank:	1,147,733
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Bonnie Biafore is a Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 25 year's experience helping clients, large and small, make project management excellence part of their business strategies. She is the author of 29 books about project management, investing, personal finance, Microsoft Project, QuickBooks, and more.

Table of Contents

• The Missing Credits
• Introduction
• Part 1: Setting Up QuickBooks
  • 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, Jobs, and Vendors
  • Chapter 5: Setting Up Items
  • Chapter 6: Data Entry Shortcuts for Lists
  • Chapter 7: Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
• Part 2: 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: Bank Accounts and Credit Cards
  • Chapter 15: Doing Payroll
  • Chapter 16: Making Journal Entries
  • Chapter 17: Performing Year-End Tasks
• Part 3: Managing Your Business
  • Chapter 18: Keeping Track of Financial Tasks
  • Chapter 19: Managing QuickBooks Files
  • Chapter 20: Managing Inventory
  • Chapter 21: Working with Sales Tax
  • Chapter 22: Budgeting and Planning
  • Chapter 23: Tracking Finances with Reports and Graphs
• Part 4: QuickBooks Power
  • Chapter 24: Banking Online with QuickBooks
  • Chapter 25: Configuring Preferences to Fit Your Company
  • Chapter 26: Integrating QuickBooks with Other Programs
  • Chapter 27: Customizing QuickBooks
  • Chapter 28: Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure
• Part 5: Appendixes
  • Installing QuickBooks
  • Help, Support, and Other Resources