Skip to Content
QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
book

QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

Jobs & Estimates

If you create estimates or document job progress in QuickBooks, head to the Jobs & Estimates preferences section to set up your progress terminology and estimating features. QuickBooks forces nonprofits to think in terms of customers, but it does allow you to choose the terminology you prefer for progress on a job. For example, if you're a professional gigolo, your terminology for a woman you didn't win over might be "Rejected" and you can instruct QuickBooks to display that term in the Job Status field.

Note

Because the Basic edition of QuickBooks doesn't support jobs, the Jobs & Estimates preferences section applies only to QuickBooks Professional, Premier, and Enterprise editions.

QuickBooks includes five fields for job status: pending, awarded, in progress, closed, and not awarded. You might wonder why Intuit bothered to name these fields as they did, because the status terms do nothing more than appear in Job Status fields and columns (see page 68 to learn more). Despite QuickBooks field names, you can type any term you want for status in any of the five boxes. Type Waiting in the Pending box; Whoopie! in the Awarded box, and Finally in the Closed box. When you edit a job and display the Job Status drop-down list, you can choose from these terms.

The rest of the preferences on the Company Preferences tab relate to estimates and progress invoicing. Choose any or all of the following preferences:

  • Do You Create Estimates? This question is simple But unfortunately, ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual

Bonnie Biafore

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596009011Errata Page