Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 657.9042028553
EAN: 9780470184707
ISBN: 0470184701
Label: For Dummies
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2007-11-12
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies

Does your small business need big help with accounting and financial management services? QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies to the rescue! Here’s just what you need to get up and running with the latest version of QuickBooks, the bestselling small business accounting software for more than a decade.

With QuickBooks, you can build a budget, process payroll, track income and outgo, and make tax time a little less stressful. Even though it’s a pretty intuitive system, QuickBooks—like all accounting software—requires a bit of set-up to make it run efficiently and tailor it to your business. QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies shows you how to

• Work with accounts payable and receivable
• Handle credit card transactions
• Keep your business checkbook
• Build a perfect budget
• Print checks and generate reports
• Manage your payroll and prepare payroll tax returns
• Estimate, bill, and track jobs
• Prepare customer invoices, record sales, and pay bills
• Take care of those necessary tasks that happen at the end of the week, the month, the year, or the billing cycle

QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies covers QuickBooks Basic, Pro, Premier, and Enterprise flavors. Whether you’re the business owner or the manager or employee charged with making QuickBooks work, this friendly guide helps you get going and keeps a smile on your face.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Terribly Useful for LLC's
Comment: If you are setting up an LLC there is alot missing in this book that you will need. For example in the payroll section there is no real informaton on how to deal with members and their salaries and how that should be tracked. This is a very common situation that newbie business owners will have to deal with and I figured a "Dummies" book would have had a step by step instructions on how to do just that.

Also the book was real chatty. The author spending lots and lots of paragraphs talking to you like you were his buddy over a beer. Most of those paragraphs were wasted ink and paper.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: QB for Me
Comment: I have had several years experience with QB (for Macs) and have recently started to use QB for PCs. First off let me say the transition from QB for Mac to QB for PC is a vast ocean of difference (I think I have even caused a professional bookeeper to pull her hair out over it). As a side note, I would never CHOOSE to use the Mac version of QB- so if you have a choice or are jsut setting up - save yourself some sanity - go for a PC.

I have found this guide to be straight forward and friendly, but not complete. Several times I was in the middle of reading a subject thinking, "ok, now I'm going to get somewhere" only to turn the page and the dialog dried up (i.e. not all discussions followed through to the end). In general this is a great guide to get started. If your business is complicated - hire someone to help you set up (the book actually recommends this, too). It will save you lots of time & frustratiton. With a little guidance from an accounting professional, QB for Dummies with provide you with lots of support and tips. Few guides are more comprehensive or easy to grasp the concepts. Great resource.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Quickbooks
Comment: Good book. Helped me get started in a very entertaining way.

I recommend it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very helpful, easy, excellent
Comment: Was up an running immediately with this book. Very well done. Probably the only book I'll need for Quick Books. Excellent!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good reference, but fell short
Comment: I got this book because I was trying to navigate Quickbooks 2008 as part of my job for a local raspberry co-op. The book was helpful in getting things set up, which for the most part, was already done; however, I was looking for something to get me out of some jams, namely how to delete a duplicate paycheck, and how to correct some entries I had made for accounts payable. So far, I haven't been able to find those instructions, if they exist. The book is well written and easy for the beginner to understand, but again, I would have benefited from a chapter or two on how to correct some mistakes.

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