This ILT Series course covers the fundamentals of using QuickBooks 2010 to track the finances of a small business. Students will learn how to set up a new company, manage bank account transactions, maintain customer, job, and vendor information, manage inventory, generate reports, and use the Company Snapshot window. Students will also create invoices and credit memos, write and print checks, add custom fields, set up budgets, and learn how to protect and back up their data.

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.

The perfect accounting solution for small business owners and managers QuickBooks is the leading small business accounting software package, designed to help users handle their financial and business management tasks more effectively. This value-priced reference combines eight content-rich minibooks in one complete package. It goes well beyond the basics of how to use QuickBooks by providing extensive coverage and expert advice on accounting chores, financial management, business planning, and much more. Thoroughly revised and updated to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to QuickBooks, the book is an indispensable tool for successfully managing business finances. Explains how to invoice customers, pay vendors, track inventory, and manage cash and bank accounts Details the steps to set up a do-it-yourself payroll, prepare financial statements and reports, and build a budget Walks you through conducting ratio analysis, creating a business plan forecast, and writing a business plan Helps you understand double entry bookkeeping, plan and prepare a QuickBooks accounting system, and establish a QuickBooks network Written by veteran CPA Stephen Nelson, this resource gives you the answers you need to get the most out of QuickBooks!

Updated to include information on the QuickBooks 2010 Premier Editions, this reference is filled with information for accounting professionals who want to provide extra services to clients. Business owners and bookkeepers will learn how to use the advanced accounting features unique to the software's Premier Editions to create professional business plans as well as analyze and project company performance. Easy-to-follow instructions, coverage of undocumented features, and dozens of tips, tricks, and shortcuts are provided, along with file specifications for importing data into QuickBooks.

Need answers quickly? QuickBooks® 2009 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Produce and customize reports that show exactly how your company is doing Schedule transactions so you'll never forget a due date again Bill time and expenses directly to customers Use the new QuickBooks features for 2009, including a redesigned Payroll Center and the new Accountant's Copy that lets you keep working while your accountant reviews your books Create and use a budget Reconcile your bank account to the penny without waiting for the bank statement to come in the mail Keep detailed records of fixed asset acquisitions Protect financial information with the latest in security techniques Send customized mailings to your customers and vendors Learn tips and shortcuts to help make your QuickBooks experience more efficient and to customize your program to fit your style Process transactions the right way by following the accounting rules interspersed throughout the book Introduction xv Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Company with the EasyStep Interview 1 Chapter 2: Setting Up and Using Payroll Features 27 Chapter 3: Adding or Changing Information After the Interview Is Completed 69 Chapter 4: Invoicing and Collecting Income 107 Chapter 5: Making Purchases and Recording Payments 141 Chapter 6: Collecting and Paying Sales Tax 171 Chapter 7: Using Time-Saving Features 185 Chapter 8: Job Cost Estimating and Tracking 199 Chapter 9: Tracking Time 219 Chapter 10: QuickBooks Tips and Tricks 237 Chapter 11: Using the QuickBooks Online Features 263 Chapter 12: Preparing Income Tax Returns 295 Chapter 13: Security 309 Chapter 14: Using Inventory Features 328 Chapter 15: Recording Your Assets 349 Chapter 16: Recording Owners' Equity 363 Chapter 17: Recording Liabilities 371 Chapter 18: Preparing the Top Ten QuickBooks Reports 387 Workshops 411 Index 423

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Get started using QuickBooks 2010 right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions make it easy to ramp up on the latest release of this powerful small business financial software. Follow along and learn how to customize bookkeeping, process invoices, manage payroll, track inventory, run reports, and much more. Get up to speed on QuickBooks 2010 in no time with help from the practical, fast-paced guide. Use these handy guideposts: Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks Need-to-know facts in concise narrative Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Bonus information related to the topic being covered Errors and pitfalls to avoid Thomas E. Barich has been working with QuickBooks for more than 10 years, providing QuickBooks consulting services, and using it to manage his own small business ventures.

The latest edition of the top-selling book in the QuickBooks category, QuickBooks 2010: The Official Guide is the only Intuit-authorized book on the number-one financial software for business.

Contractor's Guide to Quickbooks Pro 2007 not only explains how to set up Quickbooks Pro for a construction company, it also includes a CD-ROM with a template for a construction business to help speed set-up, along with an estimating program with a 5,000-item database, a program that converts estimates into QuickBooks forms so they can compare estimated costs with actual costs, and blank construction forms. QuickBooks Pro is made for all types of businesses. This user-friendly guide walks the builder through the often-complicated set-up procedure that's right for a construction business, so that the builder can get his complicated accounting simplified and automated in his computer. With one easy system, and QuickBooks Pro, your customers can write checks, keep track of their bills, payroll, billing, and the little accounting tidbits that they usually keep in their heads. They'll be able to sleep better at night, as QuickBooks Pro becomes their office accountant.

The annual update of a perennial bestseller, fully revised for the newest QuickBooks release QuickBooks is the leading software package for small business accounting, updated each year so it remains cutting-edge. QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies provides all the information you need to start using the newest version in your business. You'll learn to set up your business accounting functions on QuickBooks and use all the newest features. You'll be able to create budgets, process payroll, manage inventory and invoices, track job costs, balance accounts, and make things easier at tax preparation time. Shows you, in plain English, how to set up QuickBooks and manage your small business accounting on your own Explains how to set up your business on QuickBooks, create invoices and credit memos, record sales receipts, set up inventory items, and track business credit cards Covers recording and paying bills, printing checks, processing payroll, and preparing payroll taxes Discusses building a budget, going online with QuickBooks, balancing accounts, generating financial reports, simplifying tax return preparation, and backing up data Also explores job estimating, billing, and tracking jobs and invoices Written by Stephen L. Nelson, author of all previous editions and an experienced CPA, QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies will help you become your own accountant and keep your business in the black.

This is the definitive, must-have QuickBooks 2010 reference for every business owner and accounting professional. Not a beginner's guide, this is a high-productivity resource for solving the problems that intermediate-to-advanced QuickBooks users encounter most often. Author Laura Madeira is well-qualified to write this book: she has 20 years experience training professionals on Intuit products, and has been selected by Intuit to introduce its new releases to accountants and business entrepreneurs. Here, she offers real solutions for every QuickBooks accounting module, helping you achieve their true goal for QuickBooks: a clear, up-to-date understanding of where the business stands, and where it's headed. Madeira's expert consulting advice covers: data files, banking; A/R, undeposited funds, employee advances, inventory, A/P, sales tax, payroll, reporting, sharing data with accountants, and much more. Offers expert solutions, processes, and QuickBooks troubleshooting help users can't find in any other book Shows how to fix errors and problems wherever they occur, from A/R and A/P to sales tax and payroll