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Manage your small-business finances with this Intuit-authorized guide!
Create a new financial management system for your small business with QuickBooks 2005 and this official guide to maximizing the software’s capabilities. Learn to use all of the new and updated features included in the latest release of this powerful financial management tool. Track funds, manage payroll, process invoices, monitor inventory, create budgets, develop fiscal reports, and much more. Run your business easily and efficiently--even if you have no accounting experience--using the essential advice in the only Intuit-authorized guide to QuickBooks 2005.
Inside, learn how to:
- Customize QuickBooks for your own business needs
- Enter transactions quickly and accurately
- Analyze and manage finances
- Track money, time, material, and costs
- Create customized financial reports
- Manage payroll and accounts payable
- Monitor inventory
- Keep an audit trail
- Track receivables easily and accurately
- Streamline your bookkeeping tasks
Covers QuickBooks Basic and QuickBooks Pro
Kathy Ivens is the author of more than 50 computer books and is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine. She uses QuickBooks to manage her own small-business finances.
Synopsis
Create a customized accounting system for your small business with QuickBooks 2005 and this official guide to maximizing the software’s capabilities. Learn to use all of the new and updated features of the latest release of this powerful financial management tool. Track funds, manage payroll, process invoices, monitor inventory, create budgets, develop fiscal reports, and much more. Run your business easily and efficiently--even if you have no accounting experience--using the essential advice in the only Intuit-authorized guide to QuickBooks 2005.
About the Author
Kathy Ivens has been a computer consultant since 1984, and several years ago she began writing books. She has authored, co-authored, contributed to, and ghost written more than forty volumes on computer subjects. Kathy is a frequent contributor to national magazines on computer topics, writing reviews and articles, and is a contributing editor for Windows 2000 Magazine and Windows NT Magazine. She is the author of QuickBooks 2002: The Official Guide, Windows 2000: The Complete Reference among many other best-selling McGraw-Hill/Osborne titles.
Table of Contents
Part One: Getting Started 1 Using QuickBooks for the First Time 2 Setting Up Your Lists Part Two: Bookkeeping 3 Invoicing 4 Receiving Payments 5 Tracking Accounts Receivable 6 Entering Accounts Payable Bills 7 Paying Bills 8 Running Payroll 9 Government Payroll Reporting 10 Configuring and Tracking Inventory 11 Managing Bank and Credit Card Accounts 12 Reconciling Bank Accounts 13 Using Budgets and Planning Tools 14 Using Journal Entries 15 Running Financial Reports 16 Using Online Banking Services 17 Year-End Procedures Part Three: Tracking Time and Mileage 18 Using Time Tracking 19 Using Timesheets for Payroll Job Costing 20 Using QuickBooks Timer Part Four: Managing QuickBooks 21 Customizing QuickBooks 22 Managing Your QuickBooks Files Part Five: Appendixes A Do This First! B Integrating with Other Programs and Services