QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual

QuickBooks 2010 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 2010: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions.

• Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company
• Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income
• Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks
• Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center
• Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center
• Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit
• Share information with your accountant quickly and easily

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2010 for Windows.

Veteran author Bonnie Biafore's friendly, fully-updated guide shows non-accountants how to use QuickBooks 2010 to manage all aspects of running a small business. A growing number of small businesses now use QuickBooks accounting software not only to speed up their bookkeeping efforts, but to manage their businesses more effectively. This guidebook covers everything in a friendly, witty style that engages novices and experts alike.

Bonnie Biafore is an award-wining author of more than a dozen books, including Missing Manuals on Quicken 2009, QuickBooks 2009, and Project 2007, as well as The Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook, Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better, and has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy-to-understand morsels and spicing them up with her warped sense of humor.