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QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies
By: Stephen L. NelsoneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: For Dummies
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QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies is a big help for small businesses
Most businesses can't afford a Big Four accounting firm to handle their books. That's why so many small-to-mid-size businesspeople turn to QuickBooks to help them keep track of their finances. Bestselling author Stephen Nelson returns with updated coverage of the latest revisions and enhancements to the leading small business accounting software package. After a quick review of bookkeeping basics, you'll discover how QuickBooks can help you build the perfect budget, process payroll, simplify your tax return prep work, create invoices, manage inventory, generate income statements, balance accounts, and much more.
You'll learn what you should do before you install and set up QuickBooks, then move onto basic bookkeeping concepts and the fundamentals of building a solid budget. You'll also discover how to enter data, create invoices, and record and print sales receipts; keep track of your inventory, payroll, and budgets; monitor your job costs; and generate the most common financial reports with ease.
Veteran author Stephen Nelson updates his perennial bestseller and offers you easy-to-understand coverage of the newest release of QuickBooks Enables you to take control of managing your own business accounting and financial management tasks so you can avoid having to hire expensive outside help Provides expert advice for getting started with QuickBooks, building the perfect budget, processing payroll, creating invoices, managing inventory, tracking job costs, generating income statements, balancing accounts, creating financial reports, and moreQuickBooks 2012 For Dummies helps you handle your financial management tasks more effectively so that you can get down to business!
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| Title of Computers eBook: QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies | |
| Release Date: 09-23-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies
Chapter One
Quick Books: The Heart of Your Business
In This Chapter
* Why you truly need a tool like QuickBooks
* What QuickBooks actually does
* Why QuickBooks is a popular choice
* What you need to do (in general) to get started
* How to succeed in setting up and using QuickBooks
I want to start this conversation by quickly covering some basic questions concerning QuickBooks, such as "Why even use QuickBooks?" and "Where and how does a guy or gal start?" — and, most importantly, "What should I not do?"
This little orientation shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Really. And the orientation lets you understand the really big picture concerning QuickBooks.
Why QuickBooks?
Okay, I know you know that you need an accounting system. Somebody, maybe your accountant or spouse, has convinced you of this. And you, the team player that you are, have just accepted this conventional viewpoint as the truth.
But just between you and me, why do you really need QuickBooks? And what does QuickBooks do that you really, truly need done? And heck, just to be truly cynical, also ask the question "Why QuickBooks?" Why not, for example, use some other accounting software program?
Why you need an accounting system
Start with the most basic question: Why do you even need an accounting system like QuickBooks? It's a fair question, so let me supply you with the two-part answer.
The first reason is that federal law requires your business to maintain an accounting system. More specifically, Section
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