Book description
Make business chores easy with QuickBooksManaging the books for a small business can be a challenging, onerous task. If you're looking to spend fewer hours hunched over multiple spreadsheets and more time focused on other aspects of your growing business, this all-in-one guide gives you everything you need to put QuickBooks to work for you. Combining eight content-rich books into one complete package, this value-priced reference provides answers to all the questions you have about how QuickBooks can manage your business finances—even the ones you didn't know to ask!
With the help of QuickBooks 2017 All-In-One For Dummies, you'll quickly and painlessly discover how to use this fan-favorite software program to establish fundamental accounting practices that will keep your company successful and healthy. From installing the software and configuring QuickBooks to setting up payroll reminders and keeping track of your business checkbook and credit cards, everything you need to effectively—and efficiently—stay on top of those dollars and cents is only a page away!
- Organize all of your business finances in one place
- Pay vendors, invoice customers, and track inventory
- Prepare financial statements and reports
- Access your cloud-based account using your smartphone
This is your all-encompassing guide to putting your financial woes to rest and simplifying your business accounting with confidence!
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
- Book 1: An Accounting Primer
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Book 2: 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 3: Bookkeeping Chores
- Book 4: Accounting Chores
- Book 5: Financial Management
- Book 6: Business Plans
- Book 7: Care and Maintenance
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Book 8: 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
- Advertisement Page
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: QuickBooks 2017 All-In-One For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2016
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119281344
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