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Your bookkeeping workflow will be smoother and faster with QuickBooks 2012 for Windows—but only if you spend more time using the program than figuring out how it works. This book puts you in control: you get step-by-step instructions on how and when to use specific features, along with basic accounting advice to guide you through the learning process.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Get started. Set up your accounts, customers, jobs, and invoice items quickly.
- Manage your business. Track spending, income, invoices, inventory, and payroll.
- Spend less time on bookkeeping. Use QuickBooks to create invoices or timesheets in batches.
- Follow the money. Examine everything from billable time and expenses to year-end tasks.
- Find key info quickly. Rely on QuickBooks’ vendor, customer, inventory, and employee centers.
- Exchange data with other programs. Move data between QuickBooks and Microsoft Office.
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Table of contents
- QuickBooks 2012: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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One. Getting Started
- 1. Creating a Company File
- 2. Getting Around in QuickBooks
- 3. Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
- 4. Setting Up Customers, Jobs, and Vendors
- 5. Setting Up Items
- 6. Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
- 7. Managing QuickBooks Files
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Two. 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
- Recording Vendor Refunds and Credits
- Paying Your Bills
- Producing Checks
- Writing Checks Without Entering Bills
- Paying with Cash
- Paying with Credit Cards
- 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
- Creating Batch 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 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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Three. Managing Your Business
- 19. Managing Inventory
- 20. Budgeting and Planning
- 21. Working with Reports
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Four. QuickBooks Power
- 22. Online Banking Services
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23. Configuring Preferences to Fit Your Company
- Preferences: The Basics
- 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
- Search
- Send Forms
- Spelling
- Tax: 1099
- Time & Expenses
- 24. Integrating QuickBooks with Other Programs
- 25. Customizing QuickBooks
- 26. Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure
- Five. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: QuickBooks 2012: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449398514
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