QuickBooks 2013: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits

About the Author

Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated with math in its practical and more esoteric forms. As an engineer and project manager, she’s thorough and steadfastly attentive to detail but redeems herself by using her sick sense of humor to transform these drool-inducing subjects into entertaining reading. She writes about personal finance, investing, accounting, and project management. Her NAIC Stock Selection Handbook and Successful Project Management won major awards from the Society of Technical Communication and APEX Awards for Publication Excellence (but the raves she receives from beginning investors mean much more to her).

Bonnie is also the author of O’Reilly’s Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual, Personal Finance: The Missing Manual, Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, and Online Investing Hacks. She writes a monthly column called “WebWatch” for Better Investing magazine and is a regular contributor to www.interest.com. Applying her humor to another genre, she has published a novel, Fresh Squeezed, a crime comedy. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients, provides training, and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats.

When not chained to her computer, she hikes and cycles in the mountains, walks her dogs, takes aerial dance classes, and cooks gourmet meals. You can learn more at Bonnie’s website, www.bonniebiafore.com, or email her at [e-mail].

About the Creative Team

Dawn Mann (editor) is associate editor for the Missing Manual series. When not reading about QuickBooks, she beads, plays soccer, and causes trouble. Email: [e-mail].

Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) lives, works, and does pretty much everything else in Cambridge, MA. When she’s not ushering books through production, she’s writing and baking up whatever she can imagine. Email: [e-mail].

Brad White (technical reviewer) is COO of Real World Training and has been teaching and consulting on QuickBooks since 1998. When he isn’t fixing someone else’s computer problems, he enjoys listening to audio books, eating sushi, and thinking about golfing. Website: www.QuickBooksTraining.com.

Michael Cobb (technical reviewer) is an Information Designer with Real World Training and enjoys paying way too much for tech gadgetry, cooking insanely spicy food, and traveling to exotic lands like California. Email: [e-mail].

Nan Reinhardt (proofreader) lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys summer weekends at the lake, boating, swimming, and reading voraciously. Nan is not only a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, but she’s also a published romance novelist. Check out her work at www.nanreinhardt.com. Email: [e-mail].

Ron Strauss (indexer) lives and works in Northern California. He moonlights as a classically trained violist. Email: [e-mail].

Acknowledgements

Behind the scenes, a horde of hard-working folks help make this book (and me) look as good as we do. I am always grateful for the improvements that people make to my writing. My words (and bookkeeping) are better for it. Dawn Mann raised the bar this year to make the book as clear as possible and the process of producing it almost painless. Special thanks to Ron Strauss for building an index that helps you find all the information you want (especially important given the absence of an index in QuickBooks Help). And for making me look good—literally —I’d like to thank Garrett Hacking, my friend and professional photographer extraordinaire, for the best author photo ever.

I also want to thank the technical reviewers, Brad White and Michael Cobb, whose encyclopedic knowledge of QuickBooks was a much appreciated gift. And, as always, I thank my agent, Neil Salkind, for helping me turn my writing into a second career.

—Bonnie Biafore

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