QuickBooks 2008 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

  • 9h 17m
  • Stephen L. Nelson
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2008

Bookkeeping is part of running a business — and for a lot of us, it's not the favorite part. If you’ve been looking for an easy way to manage all aspects of your small business accounting and finances, QuickBooks 2008 is a great software choice. And QuickBooks 2008 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the quickest way to get started!

With eight books in one, QuickBooks 2008 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is your one-stop guide to successful small business financial management. Here's what you need to know, not just about setting up and using QuickBooks, but also about accounting chores, business planning, overall financial management, and much more.

The eight minibooks are

  • An accounting primer
  • Getting ready to use QuickBooks
  • Bookkeeping chores
  • Accounting chores
  • Financial management
  • Business plans
  • Care and maintenance
  • Additional business resources

QuickBooks 2008 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies show you how to set up and customize QuickBooks, create invoices and pay vendors, track job or project costs, prepare financial statements and reports, and even simplify tax return preparation. Written by a veteran tax planner and CPA, this book and QuickBooks 2008 will make all that number-crunching a lot more bearable.

About the Author

Stephen L. Nelson has been an author, computer consultant, BBS sysop, programmer, and hardware technician for more than 20 years — pushing computers and their uses far beyond “normal” performance limits for decades now. His first love affair with a computer peripheral blossomed in 1984 when he bought his lightning-fast 300 BPS modem for his Atari 400. Now he spends entirely too much time on the Internet and drinks far too much caffeine-laden soda.

With a degree in journalism and creative writing from Louisiana State University, Steve took the logical career choice: programming computers. However, after five years as a COBOL programmer for a hospital system, he decided there must be a better way to earn a living, and he became the Documentation Manager for Datastorm Technologies, a well-known communications software developer. Somewhere in between writing software manuals, Steve began writing computer how-to books. His first book, Running a Perfect BBS, was published in 1994 — and after a short decade or so of fun (disguised as hard work), Steve is one of the most productive and best-selling technology authors on the planet.

Along with writing several books a year and editing whatever his publishers throw at him, Steve has also branched out into Web-based education, designing and teaching a number of online classes — called WebClinics — for Hewlett-Packard.

Steve’s rapidly expanding list of books includes MacBook For Dummies; iMac For Dummies, 4th Edition; Mac OS X Tiger All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies; Building a PC For Dummies, 5th Edition; Scanners For Dummies, 2nd Edition; CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition; PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Mac OS X Tiger: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks; Microsoft Office v. X Power User’s Guide; BURN IT! Creating Your Own Great DVDs and CDs; The Hewlett-Packard Official Printer Handbook; The Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook; The Hewlett-Packard Official Digital Photography Handbook; Computer Gamer’s Bible; Recordable CD Bible; Teach Yourself the iMac Visually; Running a Perfect BBS; Official Netscape Guide to Web Animation; and Windows 98 Troubleshooting and Optimizing Little Black Book.

In this Book

  • Principles of Accounting
  • Double-Entry Bookkeeping
  • Special Accounting Problems
  • Setting Up QuickBooks
  • Loading the Master File Lists
  • Fine-Tuning QuickBooks
  • Invoicing Customers
  • Paying Vendors
  • Tracking Inventory and Items
  • Managing Cash and Bank Accounts
  • Paying Employees
  • For Accountants Only
  • Preparing Financial Statements and Reports
  • Preparing a Budget
  • Using Activity-Based Costing
  • Setting Up Project and Job Costing Systems
  • Ratio Analysis
  • Economic Value Added Analysis
  • Capital Budgeting in a Nutshell
  • Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis
  • Creating a Business Plan Forecast
  • Writing a Business Plan
  • Administering QuickBooks
  • Protecting Your Data
  • Troubleshooting
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