Book description
Simplify your small business accounting with confidence!Managing the books for a small business can be a challenging task—just ask any of the countless business owners and managers who have spent hour after hour hunched over multiple spreadsheets. QuickBooks 2016 All-In-One For Dummies takes the pain out of managing your small business' finances through one essential reference. This reference covers virtually everything you need to take control of your business and guide your company's financial processes in the right direction.
QuickBooks is a trusted resource for small businesses because its software is designed to help you handle your financial and business management tasks efficiently and effectively. With QuickBooks, you can establish fundamental accounting practices that help keep your company successful and healthy.
- Cover the basics, including understanding double entry bookkeeping, planning and setting up a QuickBooks accounting system, and loading master file lists
- Create a dynamic accounting environment by adding customer invoices, vendor payments, inventory tracking, cash management, and bank account information
- Establish DIY payroll processes, and prepare essential financial statements and reports
- Manage and balance financial needs through activity-based costing, project and job costing systems, ratio analysis, economic value added analysis, capital budgeting, budget building, business plan forecasts, and more
QuickBooks 2016 All-In-One For Dummies is the guide you need to take care of your small business' books with confidence!
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
- Book I: An Accounting Primer
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Book II: Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks
- Chapter 1: Setting Up QuickBooks
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Chapter 2: Loading the Master File Lists
- Setting Up the Chart of Accounts List
- Setting Up the Item List
- Working with the Price Level List
- Using Sales Tax Codes
- Setting Up a Payroll Item List
- Setting Up Classes
- Setting Up a Customer List
- Setting Up the Vendor List
- Setting Up a Fixed Assets List
- Setting Up a Price Level List
- Setting Up a Billing Rate Level List
- Setting Up Your Employees
- Setting Up an Other Names List
- Setting Up the Profile Lists
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Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning QuickBooks
- Accessing the Preferences Settings
- Setting the Accounting Preferences
- Setting the Bills Preferences
- Setting the Calendar Preferences
- Setting the Checking Preferences
- Changing the Desktop View
- Setting Finance Charge Calculation Rules
- Setting General Preferences
- Controlling Integrated Applications
- Controlling Inventory
- Controlling How Jobs and Estimates Work
- Dealing with Multiple Currencies
- Starting Integrated Payment Processing
- Controlling How Payroll Works
- Telling QuickBooks How Reminders Should Work
- Specifying Reports & Graphs Preferences
- Setting Sales & Customers Preferences
- Specifying How Sales Are Taxed
- Setting the Search Preferences
- Setting the Send Forms Preferences
- Fine-Tuning the Service Connection
- Controlling Spell Checking
- Controlling How 1099 Tax Reporting Works
- Setting Time & Expenses Preferences
- Book III: Bookkeeping Chores
- Book IV: Accounting Chores
- Book V: Financial Management
- Book VI: Business Plans
- Book VII: Care and Maintenance
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Book VIII: Appendixes
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Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel
- Starting Excel
- Stopping Excel
- Explaining Excel’s Workbooks
- Putting Text, Numbers, and Formulas in Cells
- Writing Formulas
- Scrolling through Big Workbooks
- Copying and Cutting Cell Contents
- Formatting Cell Contents
- Recognizing That Functions Are Simply Formulas
- Saving and Opening Workbooks
- Printing Excel Workbooks
- One Other Thing to Know
- Appendix B: Government Web Resources for Businesses
- Appendix C: Glossary of Accounting and Financial Terms
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Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel
- About the Author
- Cheat Sheet
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: QuickBooks 2016 All-in-One For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2015
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119126072
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