Get the most from the leading small business accounting software package QuickBooks is designed to help users handle their financial and business management tasks more effectively. Written by veteran Dummies author Stephen L. Nelson, this book empowers readers to manage their small business accounting and financial management tasks and addresses setting up online banking and bill paying, tracking accounts receivable and payable, monitoring inventory levels, processing payroll, and creating financial reports.

Will help any small business or financial professional master QuickBooks Pro 2004 or QuickBooks Premier 2004 quickly, and use it effectively. This comprehensive, highly visual course in using QuickBooks covers the full accounting cycle in both merchandising and service businesses. It has been fully updated for the latest versions of QuickBooks. Topics covered include: a basic introduction to computers and QuickBooks Pro (and Premier); sales and receivables; payables and purchases; general accounting and end-of-period procedures; payroll; and more. Readers will also walk step-by-step through computerizing a manual accounting system with QuickBooks. Appendices cover the basics of working with Windows, using QuickBooks' built-in letters, using QuickBooks Pro online, and more. For everyone who wants to learn QuickBooks Pro 2004 or QuickBooks Premier 2004, including millions of small and home office business owners, accountants, bookkeepers, and students. Will also be valuable to QuickBooks users upgrading to the newest release. With over 2.5 million users, QuickBooks is the world's #1 small business accounting package

Explains how to use QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro to set-up and manage bookkeeping systems, track invoices, pay bills, manage payroll, generate reports, and determine job costs.

Will help any small business or financial professional master QuickBooks Pro 2004 quickly and use it effectively.This hands-on, applications-rich text gives readers a solid real-world understanding of QuickBooks' innovative approach to accounting. Long-time QuickBooks and accounting instructor Janet Horne begins by reviewing the basics of computers, accounting, and QuickBooks Pro. Next, using realistic practice examples, she walks through using QuickBooks' features for sales, receivables, payables, purchases, general accounting, "end-of-period" procedures, payroll, and more. Throughout, Horne shows how to use QuickBooks both in the context of conventional product-oriented businesses and in today's increasingly dominantservicesbusinesses. Along the way, she introduces basic accounting concepts and explains how they are used (or adjusted) by QuickBooks.For everyone who wants to learn QuickBooks 2004, including millions of small and home office business owners, accountants, bookkeepers, and students. Will also be valuable to QuickBooks users upgrading to the newest release. With over 2.5 million users, QuickBooks is the world's #1 small business accounting package.

For short term courses in Accounting, Microcomputer Accounting or Computerized Accounting in departments of Accounting or Computer Information Systems. Using the popular and user-friendly QuickBooks Pro 2004 accounting package, this hands-on, applications-rich text gives students a basic knowledge of how computerized accounting systems function. It emphasizes QuickBooks' innovative approach to recording accounting transactions based on business forms, rather than the traditional journal format. The author provides firsthand training in working with actual accounting software used in business. Accounting concepts and their relation to QuickBooks are presented throughout. Students develop confidence in recording business transactions using a real commercial program; upon finishing the text, they should be able to use QuickBooks in the "real world."

Show Me QuickBooks helps readers learn visually how to perform tasks using the leading accounting software for small businesses. They are able to find answers to their questions quickly and visually with this user-friendly method of training. Each task includes a screen-by-screen visual accompanied by a concise text description that makes performing everyday tasks quick and simple.

Build your business, create a budget, and pay your bills Improve your business processes while making accounting and financial management easy Drowning in debits and credits? Bogged down in bags of paperwork? It's time to break free of the daily accounting grind and focus on making your business grow! With this book to help, QuickBooks 2004 will get your finances in order so you can get down to business. Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA provides accounting, business advisory, and tax preparation and planning services to small businesses. He is the author of over 100 books on computer and business topics. The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * "Get in, get out" information * Icons and other navigational aids * Tear-out cheat sheet * Top ten lists * A dash of humor and fun Discover how to: * Balance your books and print checks * Generate comprehensive financial reports * Design your own invoices and statements * Determine which customers owe money * Estimate projects and track expenses

For Computerized Accounting courses using QuickBooks Pro 2004 QuickBooks Pro 2004 with 2005 Update demonstrates the many transactions that effect the accounting cycle with a true "hands-on" learning approach. Students explore and use the many features of QuickBooks Pro 2004 (with the latest 2005 updates) for service and merchandising businesses. Students are also then given the opportunity to use QuickBooks Pro in a company they create.