Does your small business need big help with accounting and financial management services? QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies to the rescue! Here's just what you need to get up and running with the latest version of QuickBooks, the bestselling small business accounting software for more than a decade.
With QuickBooks, you can build a budget, process payroll, track income and outgo, and make tax time a little less stressful. Even though it's a pretty intuitive system, QuickBooks--like all accounting software--requires a bit of set-up to make it run efficiently and tailor it to your business. QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies shows you how to
Work with accounts payable and receivable
Handle credit card transactions
Keep your business checkbook
Build a perfect budget
Print checks and generate reports
Manage your payroll and prepare payroll tax returns
Estimate, bill, and track jobs
Prepare customer invoices, record sales, and pay bills
Take care of those necessary tasks that happen at the end of the week, the month, the year, or the billing cycle
QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies covers QuickBooks Basic, Pro, Premier, and Enterprise flavors. Whether you're the business owner or the manager or employee charged with making QuickBooks work, this friendly guide helps you get going and keeps a smile on your face.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
QuickBooks 2008 for Dummies is pretty dumb:
Book is way too basic and does not answer any questions about how to set up accounting books using the software in sensible ways.
Not Terribly Useful for LLC's:
If you are setting up an LLC there is alot missing in this book that you will need. For example in the payroll section there is no real informaton on how to deal with members and their salaries and how that should be tracked. This is a very common situation that newbie business owners will have to deal with and I figured a "Dummies" book would have had a step by step instructions on how to do just that. Also the book was real chatty. The author spending lots and lots of paragraphs talking to you like... more info
QB for Me:
I have had several years experience with QB (for Macs) and have recently started to use QB for PCs. First off let me say the transition from QB for Mac to QB for PC is a vast ocean of difference (I think I have even caused a professional bookeeper to pull her hair out over it). As a side note, I would never CHOOSE to use the Mac version of QB- so if you have a choice or are jsut setting up - save yourself some sanity - go for a PC. I have found this guide to be straight forward and friendly, but not... more info
Quickbooks:
Good book. Helped me get started in a very entertaining way. I recommend it.
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