Here's what you need to become your own accountant! If you love running a business, but despise keeping the books, this is the book for you! Revised throughout to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to QuickBooks, Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies covers the basics, walks you through the software installation, and guides you step-by-step through various accounting functions, including: Creating invoices and credit memos Tracking accounts receivable and payable Paying bills Monitoring and managing inventory Balancing the books Printing checks or paying with plastic Doing your banking online Processing payroll Written by Stephen Nelson, the author of more than 100 books, including all editions of QuickBooks For Dummies, Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies takes you beyond everyday accounting tasks and helps you use information to boost your productivity and profits by: Generating and sharing financial reports Building budgets Efficiently estimating, billing, and tracking jobs To expedite your bookwork and grow your business by the numbers, you don’t have to hire expensive consultants or become a CPA; just become a QBE—a QuickBooks Expert. With this book and your QuickBooks software, everything you need to know is at your fingertips!

Every company large and small wants to boost its sales, control its spending, and keep the auditors at the Internal Revenue Service happy. But, no company wants to waste time on more paperwork. These days, a growing number of companies are turning to QuickBooks accounting software not only to speed up their bookkeeping efforts, but manage their businesses more effectively.Organizations come in all shapes, sizes, and business models, so it's no surprise that accounting practices can be a convoluted road to travel. QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks companies face, but the price you pay is an overabundance of software features. To make the learning curve even more challenging, QuickBooks doesn't come with a manual.Fortunately, to help pave the road to accounting success, there's QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual, a comprehensive guide from O'Reilly that examines everything the QuickBooks Pro edition has to offer, from invoices and inventory to assets and accounts payable.With QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual, financial managers can quickly learn how to use the program's tools to implement and maintain critical accounting processes. By covering details in a friendly and light-hearted way, the book explains when and why a feature is useful, and then offers indispensable, relevant advice. Each page of this Missing Manual provides insightful tips and tricks to help readers become more efficient, sophisticated users no matter what the extent of their existing knowledge is.Whether you're interested in QuickBooks for its basic bookkeeping features or its more powerful, business planning tools, the only way to truly harness its power is to read the book that should have been in the box: QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual.

Show Me QuickBooks 2006 will help you learn visually how to perform tasks using QuickBooks 2006. The step-by-step tasks lend themselves to easy learning and thorough comprehension. You will able to find answers to yourquestions quickly 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.

"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you how rather than tell you why, then this intermediate to advanced level reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to accomplish more than 170 QuickBooks 2005 tasks, including: * Choosing a company identity * Setting up sales tax * Editing paycheck information * Tracking employees' time records * Creating invoices and estimates * Paying online credit card bills * Locating and printing reports

Teaches both the accounting concepts and software techniques needed to effectively handle financial and accounting needs for any small business Provides thorough coverage of establishing a business, handling payroll, printing checks, running financial reports, dealing with the IRS, and customizing sales reports Explores tax penalties, data management and security, sales recording, inventory, time tracking, expense reporting, and business performance analysis QuickBooks has an estimated installed base of more than four million users, and is the bestselling business financial software on the market

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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.