QuickBooks 2005 For Dummies

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 408 pages
• Published by: For Dummies
• Edition: 2nd Edition December 24, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764576615
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764576614
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
Here's what you need to become your own accountant! If you love running a business, but despise keeping the books, this is the book for you! Revised throughout to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to QuickBooks, Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies covers the basics, walks you through the software installation, and guides you step-by-step through various accounting functions, including:

• Creating invoices and credit memos
• Tracking accounts receivable and payable
• Paying bills
• Monitoring and managing inventory
• Balancing the books
• Printing checks or paying with plastic
• Doing your banking online
• Processing payroll

Written by Stephen Nelson, the author of more than 100 books, including all editions of QuickBooks For Dummies, Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies takes you beyond everyday accounting tasks and helps you use information to boost your productivity and profits by:

• Generating and sharing financial reports
• Building budgets
• Efficiently estimating, billing, and tracking jobs

To expedite your bookwork and grow your business by the numbers, you don’t have to hire expensive consultants or become a CPA; just become a QBE—a QuickBooks Expert. With this book and your QuickBooks software, everything you need to know is at your fingertips!

Back Cover Copy
Here's what you need to become your own accountant!

Set up QuickBooks to manage the money, do electronic banking, and create reports

If you're a whiz at business but not at bookkeeping, take heart! QuickBooks 2005 is like having a bookkeeper who's always on call and never asks for a raise. And with this guide in hand, you have a top-flight CPA to help you set up QuickBooks, enter the right information, and use every feature your business needs.

Discover how to:

• Track accounts receivable and payable
• Save big on business taxes
• Monitor inventory levels
• Estimate projects and track expenses
• Build the perfect budget
• Simplify tax return preparation

Reader Reviews
I have had my Quickbooks software for almost two years now. The only part of the whole entire download I could ever figure out how to use was my employees information files, and sending invoices. I own a construction company and have no bookkeeping education, and figured my investment was a very big waste of money. The language was geared towards college graduates in the field. The different catagories did not pertain to my business needs...and without understanding what those catagory titles meant to begin with...I may have well been reading greek. My last resort before scrapping the whole intire software and hiring a firm to do my bookkeeping, was to buy the Dummies book for Quikbooks. Within the first hour of reading a few pages..and scimming over topics of importance to me and my company..I was entering invoices that had been paid, setting up ledgers, writing payroll checks etc. My first dealings with the Dummies books was years ago when I happened across one that was Internet for Dummies. Every Dummies book since then has been nothing short of a blessing to me. They ALL are so brilliantly worded and illistraited, that it is as if someone is standing right in front of you talking to you in every day lamen language. I truly believe that anyone who has a problem with anything where there is a Dummies book to help on that subject...you'd be a fool not to buy it. I look forward to having my own library section of Dummy books and will continue to learn learn learn!