Introduction
Few people read introductions to reference books, so I’ll make this very brief. I just want to tell you which versions of QuickBooks this book works for, what’s in the reference, what it assumes about your existing skills, and what conventions I use.
About This Book
QuickBooks comes in several different flavors, including QuickBooks Simple Start, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. This reference talks about QuickBooks 2013 Premier, which is nearly identical to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and is a superset of QuickBooks Pro. If you’re using QuickBooks Simple Start — which is the simplest, most bare-bones version of QuickBooks — you shouldn’t use this book. Sorry. Fortunately, I have a solution of sorts for you. You might want to get another book I’ve written, QuickBooks Simple Start For Dummies. That book covers the Simple Start version of QuickBooks in friendly detail.
On the other hand, even though this book is written for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and QuickBooks Premier, if you’re using QuickBooks Pro, don’t worry. You’re just fine with this book. And don’t freak out if you’re using some version of QuickBooks that’s very similar to QuickBooks 2013, such as QuickBooks 2012 or QuickBooks 2014. Although this reference is about QuickBooks 2013, it also works just fine for the 2011, 2012, and probably 2014 versions of QuickBooks because QuickBooks is a very mature product at this point. The changes from one year to the ...
