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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Quickly into QuickBooks
• Chapter 1: QuickBooks: The Heart of Your Business
• Why QuickBooks?
• What Explains QuickBooks’ Popularity?
• What’s Next, Dude?
• How to Succeed with QuickBooks
• Chapter 2: The Big Setup
• Getting Ready for QuickBooks Setup
• Stepping through QuickBooks Setup
• The Rest of the Story
• Should You Get Your Accountant’s Help?
• Chapter 3: Populating QuickBooks Lists
• The Magic and Mystery of Items
• Adding Employees to Your Employee List
• Customers Are Your Business
• It’s Just a Job
• Adding Vendors to Your Vendor List
• The Other Lists
• Organizing Lists
• Printing Lists
• Exporting List Items to Your Word Processor
• Dealing with the Chart of Accounts List
• Part 2: Daily Entry Tasks
• Chapter 4: Creating Invoices and Credit Memos
• Making Sure That You’re Ready to Invoice Customers
• Preparing an Invoice
• Fixing Invoice Mistakes
• Preparing a Credit Memo
• Fixing Credit Memo Mistakes
• Printing Invoices and Credit Memos
• Sending Invoices and Credit Memos via Email
• Customizing Your Invoices and Credit Memos
• Chapter 5: Reeling in the Dough
• Recording a Sales Receipt
• Printing a Sales Receipt
• Special Tips for Retailers
• Correcting Sales Receipt Mistakes
• Recording Customer Payments
• Correcting Mistakes in Customer Payments Entries
• Making Bank Deposits
• Improving Your Cash Inflow
• Chapter 6: Paying the Bills
• Pay Now or Pay Later?
• Recording Your Bills by Writing Checks
• Recording Your Bills the Accounts Payable Way
• Paying Your Bills
• Tracking Vehicle Mileage
• Paying Sales Tax
• Chapter 7: Inventory Magic
• Setting Up Inventory Items
• When You Buy Stuff
• When You Sell Stuff
• How Purchase Orders Work
• Assembling a Product
• Time for a Reality Check
• Dealing with Multiple Inventory Locations
• The Lazy Person’s Approach to Inventory
• Chapter 8: Keeping Your Checkbook
• Writing Checks
• Depositing Money in a Checking Account
• Transferring Money between Accounts
• Working with Multiple Currencies
• To Delete or to Void?
• Handling NSF Checks from Customers
• The Big Register Phenomenon
• Chapter 9: Paying with Plastic
• Tracking Business Credit Cards
• Entering Credit Card Transactions
• Reconciling Your Credit Card Statement and Paying the Bill
• So What about Debit and ATM Cards?
• So What about Customer Credit Cards?
• Part 3: Stuff You Do from Time to Time
• Chapter 10: Printing Checks
• Getting the Printer Ready
• Printing a Check
• Printing a Checking Register
• Chapter 11: Payroll
• Getting Ready to Do Payroll without Help from QuickBooks
• Doing Taxes the Right Way
• Getting Ready to Do Payroll with QuickBooks
• Paying Your Employees
• Paying Payroll Liabilities
• Preparing Quarterly Payroll Tax Returns
• Filing Annual Returns and Wage Statements
• The State Wants Some Money Too
• Chapter 12: Building the Perfect Budget
• Is This a Game You Want to Play?
• All Joking Aside: Some Basic Budgeting Tips
• A Budgeting Secret You Won’t Learn in College
• Setting Up a Secret Plan
• Adjusting a Secret Plan
• Forecasting Profits and Losses
• Projecting Cash Flows
• Using the Business Planner Tools
• Chapter 13: Online with QuickBooks
• Doing the Electronic Banking Thing
• A Quick Review of the Other Online Opportunities
• Part 4: Housekeeping Chores
• Chapter 14: The Balancing Act
• Balancing a Bank Account
• Eleven Things to Do If Your Non-Online Account Doesn’t Balance
• Chapter 15: Reporting on the State of Affairs
• What Kinds of Reports Are There, Anyway?
• Creating and Printing a Report
• Reports Made to Order
• Processing Multiple Reports
• Your Other Reporting Options
• Last but Not Least: The QuickReport
• Chapter 16: Job Estimating, Billing, and Tracking
• Turning On Job Costing
• Setting Up a Job
• Creating a Job Estimate
• Revising an Estimate
• Turning an Estimate into an Invoice
• Comparing Estimated Item Amounts with Actual Item Amounts
• Charging for Actual Time and Costs
• Tracking Job Costs
• Chapter 17: File Management Tips
• Backing Up Is (Not That) Hard to Do
• Using the Accountant’s Copy
• Working with Portable Files
• Using an Audit Trail
• Using a Closing Password
• Chapter 18: Fixed Assets and Vehicle Lists
• What Is Fixed-Assets Accounting?
• Fixed-Assets Accounting in QuickBooks
• Setting Up a Fixed Asset List
• Tracking Vehicle Mileage
• Part 5: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 19: Tips for Handling (Almost) Ten Tricky Situations
• Tracking Depreciation
• Selling an Asset
• Selling a Depreciable Asset
• Owner’s Equity in a Sole Proprietorship
• Owner’s Equity in a Partnership
• Owner’s Equity in a Corporation
• Multiple-State Accounting
• Getting a Loan
• Repaying a Loan
• Chapter 20: (Almost) Ten Secret Business Formulas
• The First “Most Expensive Money You Can Borrow” Formula
• The Second “Most Expensive Money You Can Borrow” Formula
• The “How Do I Break Even?” Formula
• The “You Can Grow Too Fast” Formula
• The First “What Happens If … ?” Formula
• The Second “What Happens If … ?” Formula
• The Economic Order Quantity (Isaac Newton) Formula
• The Rule of 72
• Part 6: Appendixes
• Appendix A: Installing QuickBooks in Ten Easy Steps
• Appendix B: If Numbers Are Your Friends
• Keying In on Profit
• In the Old Days, Things Were Different
• What Does an Italian Monk Have to Do with Anything?
• Two Dark Shadows in the World of Accounting
• The Danger of Shell Games
• Appendix C: Sharing QuickBooks Files
• Sharing a QuickBooks File on a Network
• Installing QuickBooks for Network Use
• Setting User Permissions
• Specifying and Working in Multiuser Mode
• Index
• About the Author
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement