QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual is divided into four parts, each containing several chapters:

• Part 1, Getting Started, covers everything you must do to set up QuickBooks based on your organization's needs. These chapters explain how to create and manage a company file; create accounts, customers, jobs, invoice items, and other lists; and configure preferences.

• Part 2, Bookkeeping, follows the money from the moment you add charges to a customer's invoice to the tasks you must perform at the end of the year to satisfy the IRS and other interested parties. These chapters describe how to bill customers, manage the money that your customers owe you, pay for expenses, run payroll, manage your bank accounts, and sundry other bookkeeping tasks.

• Part 3, Managing Your Business, delves into the features that help you make your business a success—or even more successful than it was before. These chapters explain how to keep your inventory at just the right level, how to keep track of time and mileage, how to build budgets and plan for the future, and how to use QuickBooks reports to evaluate every aspect of your enterprise.

• Part 4, QuickBooks Power, helps you take your copy of QuickBooks to the next level. Save time and prevent errors by downloading transactions electronically. Boost your productivity by integrating QuickBooks with other programs. Customize QuickBooks components to the way you like to work. And, most important, set up QuickBooks so your financial data is ...