Book description
QuickBooks 2010 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual takes you beyond QuickBooks' help resources: you not only learn how the program works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense.
QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions.
- Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company
- Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income
- Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks
- Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center
- Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center
- Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit
- Share information with your accountant quickly and easily
QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2010 for Windows.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Missing Credits
- Introduction
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I. Getting Started
- 1. Creating a Company File
- 2. Getting Around in QuickBooks
- 3. Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
- 4. Setting Up Customers and Jobs
- 5. Setting Up Invoice Items
- 6. Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
- 7. Managing QuickBooks Files
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II. Bookkeeping
- 8. Tracking Time and Mileage
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9. Paying for Expenses
- When to Pay Expenses
- Entering Bills
- Automating Recurring Bills
- Purchasing Inventory
- Handling Reimbursable Expenses
- Paying Your Bills
- Producing Checks
- Writing Checks Without Entering Bills
- Paying with Cash
- Paying with Credit Cards
- Recording Vendor Credits
- Running Expense-Related Reports
- Paying Sales Tax
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10. Invoicing
- Choosing the Right Type of Form
- Sales Forms and Accounts
- Creating Invoices
- Invoicing for Billable Time and Costs
- Invoicing for Backordered Products
- Estimating Jobs
- Creating Progress Invoices
- Handling Refunds and Credits
- Editing Invoices
- Voiding and Deleting Invoices
- 11. Producing Statements
- 12. Transaction Timesavers
- 13. Managing Accounts Receivable
- 14. Doing Payroll
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15. Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, and Petty Cash
- Entering Transactions in an Account Register
- Handling Bounced Checks
- Transferring Funds
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Reconciling Accounts
- Preparing for the First Reconciliation
- Preparing for Every Reconciliation
- Starting a Reconciliation
- Reconciling Transactions
- Reconciliation Reports
- Modifying Transactions During Reconciliation
- Stopping and Restarting a Reconciliation
- Correcting Discrepancies
- Undoing the Last Reconciliation
- When Your Bank Makes a Mistake
- Managing Loans
- Tracking Petty Cash
- 16. Making Journal Entries
- 17. Generating Financial Statements
- 18. Performing End-of-Year Tasks
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III. Managing Your Business
- 19. Managing Inventory
- 20. Budgeting and Planning
- 21. Working with QuickBooks Reports
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IV. QuickBooks Power
- 22. Online Banking Services
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23. Configuring Preferences to Fit Your Company
- An Introduction to Preferences
- Accounting
- Bills
- Checking
- Desktop View
- Finance Charge
- General
- Integrated Applications
- Items & Inventory
- Jobs & Estimates
- Multiple Currencies
- Payments
- Payroll & Employees
- Reminders
- Reports and Graphs
- Sales & Customers
- Sales Tax
- Send Forms
- Spelling
- Tax: 1099
- Time & Expenses
- 24. Integrating QuickBooks with Other Programs
- 25. Customizing QuickBooks
- 26. Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure
- V. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596804022
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