Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110568 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Store and organize all your financial information in one place

Record sales, pay bills, create invoices, and balance your books — quickly!

QuickBooks gives you the power to manage all those accounting and financial tasks that go with having your own business. This handy guide helps you set up QuickBooks to manage daily, monthly, and occasional financial record–keeping tasks. Before you know it, you′ll be speeding through invoices, managing inventory, printing checks, generating reports, and more.

Discover how to:

• Track accounts receivable and payable

• Keep your business checkbook

• Monitor inventory levels

• Produce common financial reports

• Estimate, bill, and track jobs

• Simplify tax preparation

About the Author
Stephen L. Nelson, CPA, MBA (finance), MS (taxation), has a simple purpose in life: He wants to help you (and people like you) manage your business finances by using computers. Oh, sure, this personal mandate won’t win him a Nobel Prize or anything, but it’s his own little contribution to the world.
Steve’s experiences mesh nicely with his special purpose. He’s a CPA in Redmond, Washington. He’s an adjunct professor of taxation (S corporations and limited liability companies) at Golden Gate University graduate tax school. And, heck, he even used to work as a senior consultant and CPA with Arthur Andersen & Co. (er, yeah, that Arthur Andersen — but, hey, it was 20 years ago). Steve, whose books have sold more than 4 million copies in English and have been translated into 11 other languages, is also the bestselling author of Quicken 2008 For Dummies (Wiley).

Customer Reviews

OK for USA but not UK
I was very disappointed to find that this book is aimed at the American market and has not been converted for use in UK.
Everything is in dollars and not pounds and it talks about "Internal Revenue Service" and how to write a "check" (not cheque).
Nothing specific about VAT or UK legislation, indeed, nothing at all!.
It would not have taken a great deal of effort to edit this book to make it UK friendly and it is a pity that there is nothing in any of the descriptions about the book to show that it is written for the USA market.

UNSUITABLE for UK Quickbooks
This book DOES NOT support the UK edition of QuickBooks, a fact which vendors in the UK should make clear. Never mind the spelling, grammar and humour, some of the software differs between the different legal and tax jurisdictions.

Not fully compatible with 2006 versions
If you are upgrading from 2006 it does not tranfer any templates or memorised reports. You will have to create them all again from scratch!