QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual

With this book, financial managers will quickly learn how to use Quickbooks' tools to implement and maintain critical accounting processes. By covering the details in a warm and witty way, the book explains when and why a feature is useful, then offers indispensable, pinpoint advice. Beginners will learn to use QuickBooks competently, and more experienced users will learn how to exploit the powerful advanced features.

Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous planner, whether setting up software demos, cooking gourmet meals, or scheduling a vacation to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. When she isn't managing projects for clients, Bonnie writes about project management, small business accounting, personal finance, investing, and technology. She's also branching out into other "dry" topics with articles for the Wine Enthusiast. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy to understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor.

Bonnie is the award-wining author of more than a dozen books including Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, Project 2007: The Missing Manual, the Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook (which won an APEX Award of Distinction), Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains, cycles, rehabilitates horses, cooks gourmet food, and, most importantly, tries saying no to additional work assignments.

QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual
The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgements
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
What's New in QuickBooks 2008
Getting to Know QuickBooks
Choosing the Right QuickBooks Product
Accounting Basics—The Important Stuff
About This Book
About the Outline
The Very Basics
About âåÆ These âåÆ Arrows
About MissingManuals.com
Setting Up QuickBooks
Creating a Company in QuickBooks
Opening QuickBooks
Creating a New Company
Steps to Take Before You Create Your Company File
Starting the EasyStep Interview
Modifying Company Information
What's Next
Opening an Existing Company File
Converting from Another Program to QuickBooks
Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
Obtaining a Chart of Accounts
Account Naming and Numbering
Creating Accounts and Subaccounts
Modifying Accounts
Hiding and Deleting Accounts
Merging Accounts
Setting Up Customers and Jobs
Before You Create Customers and Jobs
Creating Customers in QuickBooks
Importing and Exporting Customer Information

Modifying Customer and Job Information
Adding Notes About Customers
Merging Customer Records
Hiding and Deleting Customers
Setting Up Invoice Items
What Items Do
When You Don't Need Items
Should You Track Inventory with Items?
The QuickBooks Item Types
Planning Your Items
Setting Up Sales Tax
Creating Items
Modifying Items
Hiding and Deleting Items
Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
The Vendor List
Categorizing with Classes
Price Levels
Customer and Vendor Profile Lists
Memorized Transactions
Fixed Asset Items
Creating and Editing List Entries
Merging List Entries
Hiding and Deleting List Entries
Sorting Lists
Printing Lists
Managing QuickBooks Files
Where to Store Your Company Files
Backing Up Files
Restoring Backups
Sending Company Files to Others
Verifying Your QuickBooks Data
Cleaning Up Data
Cleaning Up After Deleting Files
Bookkeeping
Tracking Time and Mileage
Setting Up Time Tracking
Entering Time in Timesheets
Sett
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QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual

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