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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Book 1: An Accounting Primer
• Chapter 1: Principles of Accounting
• The Purpose of Accounting
• Reviewing the Common Financial Statements
• The Philosophy of Accounting
• A Few Words about Tax Accounting
• Chapter 2: Double-Entry Bookkeeping
• The Fiddle-Faddle Method of Accounting
• How Double-Entry Bookkeeping Works
• Almost a Real-Life Example
• A Few Words about How QuickBooks Works
• Chapter 3: Special Accounting Problems
• Working with Accounts Receivable
• Recording Accounts Payable Transactions
• Inventory Accounting
• Accounting for Fixed Assets
• Recognizing Liabilities
• Closing Out Revenue and Expense Accounts
• One More Thing …
• Book 2: Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks
• Chapter 1: Setting Up QuickBooks
• Planning Your New QuickBooks System
• Installing QuickBooks
• Dealing with the Presetup Jitters
• Running the QuickBooks Setup Wizard
• Identifying the Starting Trial Balance
• Chapter 2: Loading the Master File Lists
• Setting Up the Chart of Accounts List
• Setting Up the Item List
• Working with the Price Level List
• Using Sales Tax Codes
• Setting Up a Payroll Item List
• Setting Up Classes
• Setting Up a Customer List
• Setting Up the Vendor List
• Setting Up a Fixed Assets List
• Setting Up a Price Level List
• Setting Up a Billing Rate Level List
• Setting Up Your Employees
• Setting Up an Other Names List
• Setting Up the Profile Lists
• Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning QuickBooks
• Accessing the Preferences Settings
• Setting the Accounting Preferences
• Setting the Bills Preferences
• Setting the Calendar Preferences
• Setting the Checking Preferences
• Changing the Desktop View
• Setting Finance Charge Calculation Rules
• Setting General Preferences
• Controlling Integrated Applications
• Controlling Inventory
• Controlling How Jobs and Estimates Work
• Dealing with Multiple Currencies
• Starting Integrated Payment Processing
• Controlling How Payroll Works
• Telling QuickBooks How Reminders Should Work
• Specifying Reports & Graphs Preferences
• Setting Sales & Customers Preferences
• Specifying How Sales Are Taxed
• Setting the Search Preferences
• Setting the Send Forms Preferences
• Fine-Tuning the Service Connection
• Controlling Spell Checking
• Controlling How 1099 Tax Reporting Works
• Setting Time & Expenses Preferences
• Book 3: Bookkeeping Chores
• Chapter 1: Invoicing Customers
• Choosing an Invoice Form
• Customizing an Invoice Form
• Invoicing a Customer
• Billing for Time
• Printing Invoices
• Emailing Invoices
• Recording Sales Receipts
• Recording Credit Memos
• Receiving Customer Payments
• Assessing Finance Charges
• Using Odds and Ends on the Customers Menu
• Chapter 2: Paying Vendors
• Creating a Purchase Order
• Recording the Receipt of Items
• Simultaneously Recording the Receipt and the Bill
• Entering a Bill
• Paying Bills
• Reviewing the Other Vendor Menu Commands
• Chapter 3: Tracking Inventory and Items
• Looking at Your Item List
• Adding Items to the Item List
• Editing Items
• Managing Inventory in a Manufacturing Firm
• Chapter 4: Managing Cash and Bank Accounts
• Writing Checks
• Making Bank Deposits
• Transferring Money between Bank Accounts
• Working with the Register
• Using Edit Menu Commands
• Reconciling the Bank Account
• Reviewing the Other Banking Commands
• Chapter 5: Paying Employees
• Setting Up Basic Payroll
• Scheduling Payroll Runs
• Paying Employees
• Editing and Voiding Paychecks
• Paying Payroll Liabilities
• Book 4: Accounting Chores
• Chapter 1: For Accountants Only
• Working with QuickBooks Journal Entries
• Updating Company Information
• Working with Memorized Transactions
• Reviewing the Accountant & Taxes Reports
• Creating an Accountant’s Copy of the QuickBooks Data File
• Using the Client Data Review Commands
• Chapter 2: Preparing Financial Statements and Reports
• Some Wise Words Up Front
• Producing a Report
• Working with the Report Window
• Modifying a Report
• Processing Multiple Reports
• A Few Words about Document Retention
• Chapter 3: Preparing a Budget
• Reviewing Common Budgeting Tactics
• Taking a Practical Approach to Budgeting
• Using the Set Up Budgets Window
• Managing with a Budget
• Some Wrap-Up Comments on Budgeting
• Chapter 4: Using Activity-Based Costing
• Reviewing Traditional Overhead Allocation
• Understanding How ABC Works
• Implementing a Simple ABC System
• Seeing How QuickBooks Supports ABC
• Turning On Class Tracking
• Using Classes for ABC
• Chapter 5: Setting Up Project and Job Costing Systems
• Setting Up a QuickBooks Job
• Tracking Job or Project Costs
• Job Cost Reporting
• Using Job Estimates
• Progress Billing
• Book 5: Financial Management
• Chapter 1: Ratio Analysis
• Some Caveats about Ratio Analysis
• Liquidity Ratios
• Leverage Ratios
• Activity Ratios
• Profitability Ratios
• Chapter 2: Economic Value Added Analysis
• Introducing the Logic of EVA
• Seeing EVA in Action
• Reviewing Some Important Points about EVA
• Using EVA When Your Business Has Debt
• Presenting Two Final Pointers
• And Now, a Word to My Critics
• Chapter 3: Capital Budgeting in a Nutshell
• Introducing the Theory of Capital Budgeting
• Calculating the Rate of Return on Capital
• Measuring Liquidity
• Thinking about Risk
• What Does All of This Have to Do with QuickBooks?
• Book 6: Business Plans
• Chapter 1: Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis
• Seeing How Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis Works
• Calculating Break-Even Points
• Using Real QuickBooks Data for Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis
• Recognizing the Downside of the Profit-Volume-Cost Model
• Using the Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis Workbook
• Chapter 2: Creating a Business Plan Forecast
• Reviewing Financial Statements and Ratios
• Using the Business Plan Workbook
• Understanding the Workbook Calculations
• Customizing the Starter Workbook
• Chapter 3: Writing a Business Plan
• What the Term “Business Plan” Means
• A Few Words about Strategic Plans
• Look, Ma: No Strategy
• A White-Paper Business Plan
• A New-Venture Plan
• Book 7: Care and Maintenance
• Chapter 1: Administering QuickBooks
• Keeping Your Data Confidential
• Using QuickBooks in a Multiuser Environment
• Using Audit Trails
• Enabling Simultaneous Multiuser Access
• Maintaining Good Accounting Controls
• Chapter 2: Protecting Your Data
• Backing Up the QuickBooks Data File
• Restoring a QuickBooks Data File
• Condensing the QuickBooks Company Files
• Chapter 3: Troubleshooting
• Using the QuickBooks Help File and This Book
• Browsing Intuit’s Product-Support Website
• Checking Another Vendor’s Product-Support Website
• Tapping into Intuit’s Online and Expert Communities
• When All Else Fails …
• Book 8: Appendixes
• Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel
• Starting Excel
• Stopping Excel
• Explaining Excel’s Workbooks
• Putting Text, Numbers, and Formulas in Cells
• Writing Formulas
• Scrolling through Big Workbooks
• Copying and Cutting Cell Contents
• Formatting Cell Contents
• Recognizing That Functions Are Simply Formulas
• Saving and Opening Workbooks
• Printing Excel Workbooks
• One Other Thing to Know
• Appendix B: Government Web Resources for Businesses
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census Bureau
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Federal Reserve
• Government Publishing Office
• Internal Revenue Service
• Appendix C: Glossary of Accounting and Financial Terms
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement