Bestselling author Stephen Nelson returns with big help for small businesses Offering expert advice, bestselling author Stephen Nelson returns with updated coverage of the latest revisions and enhancements to the leading small business accounting software package: QuickBooks. After a quick review of bookkeeping basics, you’ll discover how QuickBooks can help you build the perfect budget, process payroll, simplify your tax return prep work, create invoices, manage inventory, generate income statements, balance accounts, and much more. Veteran author Stephen Nelson updates his perennial bestseller and offers you easy-to-understand coverage of the newest release of QuickBooks Encourages you to take control of managing your own business accounting and financial management tasks so you can avoid having to hire expensive outside help Provides expert advice for building the perfect budget, processing payroll, creating invoices, managing inventory, tracking job costs, generating income statements, balancing accounts, creating financial reports, and more QuickBooks 2011 For Dummies helps you handle your financial management tasks more effectively so that you can effectively manage your business!

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!

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Your bookkeeping workflow will be smoother and faster with QuickBooks 2011 -- but only if you spend more time using the program than figuring out how it works. This Missing Manual puts you in control: You'll not only find out how and when to use specific features, you'll also get basic accounting advice to help you through the learning process. Set up QuickBooks. Arrange files and preferences to suit your company. Manage your business. Track inventory, control spending, run payroll, and handle income. Follow the money. Examine everything from customer invoices to year-end tasks. Find key info quickly. Take advantage of QuickBooks’ reports, Company Snapshot, and search tools. Streamline your workflow. Set up the Home page and Online Banking Center to meet your needs. Build and monitor budgets. Learn how to keep your company financially fit. Share your financial data. Work with your accountant more efficiently.

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 classic guide to the leading personal finance software—completely updated! As the number one personal finance software on the market, Quicken empowers you to take control of your personal finances quickly and effortlessly. Providing you with a thorough update of all the latest features and enhancements to the new release of Quicken 2011, Stephen Nelson shows you how to track your day-to-day finances, better manage your investments, evaluate the tax implications of your financial decisions, and much more. Veteran author Stephen Nelson provides a thorough update to his classic bestseller on the number one personal financial management planning program Shows you how to track your day-to-day finances, better manage your investments, boost your personal savings, be more responsible with your spending, tackle debt, and more Presents a fun and friendly approach to a topic that many people find intimidating or overwhelming and quickly and easily helps you take control of your personal finances Whether you're a first-time Quicken customer or looking to take advantage of the updates the latest release has to offer, Quicken 2011 For Dummies offers a straightforward-but-fun approach to this popular personal finance software.

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This classic bestseller has been thoroughly updated for the newest version of Quicken Who doesn't have questions about managing finances these days? Stephen Nelson translates his years of expertise as a CPA and tax expert into this plain-English guide that shows you how to manage your finances with the nation's leading personal finance software, Quicken. Trying to keep track of your credit card expenditures? Starting to save money for a college fund? Managing your household expensess? Steve's straightforward advice shows you how to take control of your money, without being an accounting wizard. Discover how to Get started with Quicken and maintain your checkbook on your computer Access your account information and pay bills online Manage your 401(k), IRA, stocks, and bonds Get up to speed on the new enhancements and changes in Quicken "X" Track your deductions and plan for tax time Capture your small business and personal expenses in one place Spend less time crunching numbers and more time making the most of your money with this perennial For Dummies bestseller on Quicken.

Congratulations! You have just discovered the book that teaches the easiest method of bookkeeping for your business that will get your taxes filed on time. Follow the humorous bookkeeping adventures of Ryan Hammer and Zack Nailer as their new construction business is finishing its first year and the challenge becomes to complete the books and get them to the accountant in time to do the tax returns and avoid penalties. Can a contractor without any accounting background really learn how to do their own bookkeeping in just a few hours? Will Ryan Hammer complete this work and save the money he would have paid his accountant? Can the work be done before Ryan's tax extension is due? Ryan Hammer knows he has never done this before but the Unique Author's Warranty that allows him to email any questions to the author, if he has any, has given him the confidence to do this work himself. The setting for the book takes place in the last three months of the year. Ryan and Zack are working daily for their construction clients but are also following the step by step illustrations and instructions laid out in the book for accumulating and recording their bookkeeping data, on the Cash Basis of Accounting, so that the Profit and Loss Statement and Balance Sheet can be given to the accountant, once the year is completed. This is the only book on the market that teaches Cash Basis Accounting for QuickBooks. Bookkeeping and Accounting students will be much more successful learning Accrual Accounting if you learn this Cash Basis method of Accounting first. Buy your copy today and start making the bookkeeping and accounting work for company much easier.

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.