Running Quickbooks 2008 Premier Editions

Explains how to use the premier editions of QuickBooks 2008 to set-up and manage bookkeeping systems, track invoices, pay bills, manage payroll, generate reports, and determine job costs.

Explains how to use QuickBooks to set-up and manage bookkeeping systems, track invoices, pay bills, manage payroll, generate reports, and determine job costs.

QuickBooks 2009 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 2009: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions. With this book, you will: Get more out of QuickBooks whether you're a beginner or an old pro. Learn how QuickBooks can help you boost sales, control spending, and save on taxes. Set up and manage your files to fit your company's specific needs. Use QuickBooks reports to evaluate every aspect of your enterprise. Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks. Discover new timesaving features like like better multi-user performance, a homepage dashboard, revamped online banking. Build budgets and plan for the future to make your business more successful. QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2009 for Windows.

Explains how to use the premier editions of QuickBooks 2007 to set-up and manage bookkeeping systems, track invoices, pay bills, manage payroll, generate reports, and determine job costs.

QuickBooks 2008 Solutions Guide for Business Owners and Accountants contains a wealth of information useful to both the business owner and the accountant who services such businesses. To make finding the right information easier, the book is organized into chapters specific to each accounting module in QuickBooks. The author has worked many years with businesses that use QuickBooks to manage their financials and knows that every company has its own unique needs, yet all share one common goal–to more accurately track how the business is performing financially. The goal of this book is to provide easy-to-read and easy-to-follow QuickBooks “consulting” advice that business owners, bookkeepers, or accountants can use. After reading the chapters in this book, business owners and accountants will be able to efficiently troubleshoot a QuickBooks data file and make needed corrections, so they can accurately report how the business is performing financially. This book helps you o Get started with a QuickBooks data file and learn how to modify the file you already have o Analyze your data and troubleshoot reports o Review and correct any data errors in your balance sheet accounts such as Banking, A/R, Undeposited Funds, Employee Advances, Inventory, A/P, Sales Tax, and Open Bal Equity Account o Use the tools in QuickBooks to properly review your payroll data and avoid costly mistakes o Efficiently share your business data with your accountant o Make the most of the QuickBooks reporting tools Laura Madeira graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a major in accounting and is a certified trainer for Intuit’s Certified Trainer Network. As a member of this select group, she provides training to accountants and consultants each fall when the new version of QuickBooks is released. She also is a guest instructor for Intuit at many trade shows throughout the year, and she writes published QuickBooks technical documentation and presentations for Intuit. Laura owns a software and accounting firm that has for more than 20 years helped a large variety of businesses manage their financials using Intuit’s QuickBooks software (Intuit’s Quicken in those early years). In fact, she has been training users on QuickBooks since the very first version was released many years ago. Category Business Finance Covers QuickBooks 2008 User Level Intermediate–Advanced Front cover quote: “Laura Madeira has created an extremly valuable QuickBooks resource that belongs on every business and accountant’s bookshelf” –Rich Walker, CPA, Intuit Accountant Relations

Your key to success with QuickBooks 2008, a one-stop guide to successful small business financial management.

Annotation Helping you select the best fit for your company from Intuit's QuickBooks line of financial management software, this work also shows you how to tweak and tailor it to your company's needs so you can manage your finances more effectively and efficiently than ever before.

Updated to include information on the QuickBooks 2010 Premier Editions, this reference is filled with information for accounting professionals who want to provide extra services to clients. Business owners and bookkeepers will learn how to use the advanced accounting features unique to the software's Premier Editions to create professional business plans as well as analyze and project company performance. Easy-to-follow instructions, coverage of undocumented features, and dozens of tips, tricks, and shortcuts are provided, along with file specifications for importing data into QuickBooks.