Chapter 18

Fixed Assets and Vehicle Lists

In This Chapter

arrow Discovering fixed assets accounting

arrow Finding out about fixed assets accounting in QuickBooks

arrow Setting up a Fixed Asset list

arrow Tracking vehicle mileage

In this chapter, I cover two specialty topics of modest interest to a small handful of business owners: how the QuickBooks Fixed Asset list works and how the QuickBooks vehicle mileage–tracking tool works.

Let me say at the outset that you may not need these tools. QuickBooks users commonly think the tools do more than they really do. In some situations, though, business owners and accountants truly do find these two simple tools helpful.

But you know what? I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the start.

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