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If your company is ready to minimize paperwork and maximize productivity, control spending and boost sales, QuickBooks 2006 can help you make it happen--but only if you know how to use it. And it doesn't come with a manual. Lucky for you, there's QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual, the comprehensive, up-to-date guide to saving time and money while beefing up business with QuickBooks.
Award-winning author and financial whiz Bonnie Biafore helps you select the best fit for your company from Intuit's QuickBooks line of financial management software, which includes five products ranging from basic accounting software for small businesses to sophisticated industry-specific enterprise solutions. She then shows you how to tweak and tailor it to your company's needs so you can manage your finances more effectively and efficiently than ever before.
If you're new to QuickBooks or to the 2006 version, you'll get started with ease and become quickly proficient with Biafore's tutorials on making and managing a company file and creating accounts, customers, jobs, invoice items, and other lists. If you're a more advanced user, you'll find countless tips, tricks, and shortcuts for becoming a QuickBooks pro. And everyone at every level will benefit from Biafore's seasoned, sensible advice on business accounting and finance.
Under Biafore's expert direction, you will be able to use QuickBooks for a lot more than everyday bookkeeping. Beyond billing and payroll servicing, generating business forms and easing end-of-year tax preparation, QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual shows you how to use QuickBooks to accomplish things like inventory control, budget building, and report creation for evaluating every aspect of an enterprise.
With Biafore's clear and friendly explanations and step-by-step instructions for every QuickBooks feature (along with plenty of real-world examples), you'll learn how to take advantage of online banking options, data exchange with other programs, and sophisticated planning and tracking tools for achieving maximum business success. QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual makes QuickBooks more powerful than you thought possible.
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Table of contents
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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I. Getting Started
- 1. Creating a Company in QuickBooks
- 2. Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
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3. Setting Up Customers and Jobs
- 3.1. What to Do Before You Create Customers and Jobs
- 3.2. Creating Customers in QuickBooks
- 3.3. Importing and Exporting Customer Information
- 3.4. Creating Jobs in QuickBooks
- 3.5. Modifying Customer and Job Information
- 3.6. Adding Notes About Customers
- 3.7. Merging Customer Records
- 3.8. Hiding and Deleting Customers
- 4. Setting Up Invoice Items
- 5. Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
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6. Configuring Preferences to Fit Your Company
- 6.1. An Introduction to Preferences
- 6.2. Accounting Preferences
- 6.3. Checking
- 6.4. Desktop View
- 6.5. Finance Charge
- 6.6. General
- 6.7. Jobs & Estimates
- 6.8. Payroll & Employees
- 6.9. Purchases & Vendors
- 6.10. Reminders
- 6.11. Reports and Graphs
- 6.12. Sales & Customers
- 6.13. Sales Tax
- 6.14. Send Forms
- 6.15. Spelling
- 6.16. Tax: 1099
- 6.17. Time Tracking
- 7. Managing QuickBooks Files
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II. Accounting with QuickBooks
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8. Invoicing
- 8.1. Choosing the Right Type of Form
- 8.2. Creating Invoices
- 8.3. Filling in Invoice Header Fields
- 8.4. The Rest of the Header Fields
- 8.5. Entering Invoice Line Items
- 8.6. Invoicing for Backordered Products
- 8.7. Memorizing Recurring Invoices
- 8.8. Estimating Jobs
- 8.9. Creating Progress Invoices
- 8.10. Producing Statements
- 8.11. Finding Invoices (and Other Sales Forms)
- 8.12. Editing Invoices and Sales Receipts
- 8.13. Voiding and Deleting Invoices and Sales Receipts
- 8.14. Handling Refunds and Credits
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8.15. Sending Sales Forms
- 8.15.1. Setting Print Options
- 8.15.2. Aligning Forms and Paper
- 8.15.3. Choosing a Send Method
- 8.15.4. Print One Form
- 8.15.5. Printing in Batches
- 8.15.6. Printing Mailing and Shipping Labels
- 8.15.7. Printing Packing Slips
- 8.15.8. Emailing Sales Forms
- 8.15.9. Emailing One Form
- 8.15.10. Emailing in Batches
- 9. Managing Accounts Receivable
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10. Paying for Expenses
- 10.1. When to Pay Expenses
- 10.2. Entering Bills in QuickBooks
- 10.3. Automating Recurring Bills
- 10.4. Purchasing Inventory
- 10.5. Handling Reimbursable Expenses
- 10.6. Paying Your Bills
- 10.7. Producing Checks
- 10.8. Writing Checks Without Entering Bills
- 10.9. Paying with Cash
- 10.10. Paying with Credit Cards
- 10.11. Recording Vendor Credits
- 10.12. Paying Sales Tax
- 11. Payroll
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12. Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, and Petty Cash
- 12.1. Entering Transactions in an Account Register
- 12.2. Handling Bounced Checks
- 12.3. Transferring Funds
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12.4. Reconciling Accounts
- 12.4.1. Preparing for the First Reconciliation
- 12.4.2. Preparing for Every Reconciliation
- 12.4.3. Starting a Reconciliation
- 12.4.4. Reconciling Transactions
- 12.4.5. Reconciliation Reports
- 12.4.6. Modifying Transactions During Reconciliation
- 12.4.7. Stopping and Restarting a Reconciliation
- 12.4.8. Correcting Discrepancies
- 12.4.9. Undoing the Last Reconciliation
- 12.4.10. When Your Bank Makes a Mistake
- 12.5. Managing Loans
- 12.6. Tracking Petty Cash
- 13. Making Journal Entries
- 14. Working with Financial Statements
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8. Invoicing
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III. Managing Your Business
- 15. End-of-Year Tasks
- 16. Managing Inventory
- 17. Tracking Time and Mileage
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18. Budgeting and Planning
- 18.1. Types of Budgets
- 18.2. Ways to Build Budgets
- 18.3. Creating Budgets in QuickBooks
- 18.4. Filling in Budget Values
- 18.5. Creating Additional Customer:Job or Class Budgets
- 18.6. Copying Budgets and Creating What-if Budgets
- 18.7. Running Budget Reports
- 18.8. Planning with QuickBooks Decision Tools
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19. Tracking Your Business with Reports
- 19.1. Finding the Right Reports
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19.2. A Quick Guide to QuickBooks Reports
- 19.2.1. Company & Financial Reports
- 19.2.2. Customers & Receivables Reports
- 19.2.3. Sales Reports
- 19.2.4. Jobs, Time & Mileage
- 19.2.5. Vendors & Payables
- 19.2.6. Purchases
- 19.2.7. Inventory
- 19.2.8. Employees and Payroll
- 19.2.9. Banking
- 19.2.10. Accountant and Taxes
- 19.2.11. Budgets and Forecasts
- 19.2.12. List Reports
- 19.2.13. Custom Reports
- 19.3. A Review of Report Preferences
- 19.4. Running Reports
- 19.5. Customizing Reports
- 19.6. Date Ranges
- 19.7. Subtotals
- 19.8. Customizing the Columns in Reports
- 19.9. Sorting Reports
- 19.10. Filtering Reports
- 19.11. Report Headers and Footers
- 19.12. Fonts and Numbers
- 19.13. Memorizing Reports
- 19.14. Swapping Reports Between Company Files
- 19.15. Importing Report Templates
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IV. QuickBooks Power
- 20. Online Banking Services
- 21. Sharing QuickBooks Data with Other Programs
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22. Customizing QuickBooks
- 22.1. Customizing the Home Page
- 22.2. Customizing the Icon Bar
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22.3. Customizing Forms
- 22.3.1. Editing an Existing Form
- 22.3.2. Creating a New Template
- 22.3.3. Customizing Form Content
- 22.3.4. Laying out Forms
- 22.3.5. Selecting Form Objects
- 22.3.6. Moving and Resizing Objects
- 22.3.7. Adding, Removing, and Copying Objects
- 22.3.8. Formatting Forms
- 22.3.9. Other Handy Layout Tools
- 22.3.10. Managing Templates
- 23. Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure
- V. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2005
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596101848
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