Overview
Running, or working in, a small business can be a highly rewarding experience – especially if the businessowner knows how to make the most of financial management tools, such as the accounting software QuickBooks.
QuickBooks 2003 For Dummies shows you how to turn your PC into a valued business partner. Bookkeeping becomes a breeze as you discover ways and means to
- Track accounts receivable and payable
- Set up online baking and bill paying
- Monitor inventory
- Print checks
- Pay your employees
- Prepare quarterly and annual tax returns
The number-crunching know-how of QuickBooks automation comes in several flavors: QuickBooks Basic, QuickBooks Pro, and QuickBooks Premier. QuickBooks Pro adds advanced job-costing and time-estimating features. QuickBooks Premier build on all that with features for accountants and auditors who want to use QuickBooks for rather large small businesses. QuickBooks 2003 For Dummies explores the nuances of these variations, with information and insight into
- Entering names of products, employees, customers, and vendors into lists
- Installing QuickBooks for network use
- Printing credit memos in a batch
- Tracking customer open invoices and collections
- Adjusting inventory records to reflect what's really in stock
- Balancing a non-online bank account
- Restoring your QuickBooks data (if you lose it)
You don't need to know much about accounting or double-entry bookkeeping to use QuickBooks, which is most of its appeal. With the power of QuickBooks 2003 For Dummies, financial details can be tamed the fun and easy way as get down to the business of building your moneymaking enterprise.
Synopsis
When your PC’s your business partner, bookkeeping’s a breeze
Organize business finances, pay bills and employees, and keep your balance
You’re the expert at your business, but what if that business is not financial management? If bookkeeping baffles you, here’s the book you need to keep. It shows you exactly how to use QuickBooks 2003 to track accounts receivable and payable, set up online banking and bill paying, monitor inventory, print checks, manage the money – and save some, too!
The Dummies Way
- Explanations in plain English
- "Get in, get out" information
- Icons and other navigational aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewNearly 3 million small businesses use QuickBooks -- and, remarkably, one out of every eight have purchased a copy of Stephen L. Nelson’s QuickBooks For Dummies®. It’s no wonder: Nelson knows QuickBooks as well as anyone outside (or maybe even inside) Intuit.
As a professional accountant, he specializes in helping companies set up and use QuickBooks. He’s served as acting CFO for many startups, so he knows the realities of small business from the inside. He’s consulted with leading software companies, helping them add sophisticated accounting and financial features entrepreneurs can actually use. And, not least, he’s the author of more business computing books than you can shake a stick at (we stopped counting at 100).
In QuickBooks 2003 For Dummies®, Nelson thoroughly updates his bestseller to reflect QuickBooks 2003’s improved automation, integration, and business planning features. Along the way, he walks through the entire process of setting up QuickBooks, starting with the interview. You’ll find chapters on invoicing and credit memos; paying bills; inventory; checkbooks and credit cards; payroll; reporting; budgeting and project estimation; preparing for tax season, and a whole lot more. It’s friendly, occasionally funny, and about as painless as accounting can get. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.