Chapter 1: Setting Up QuickBooks
In This Chapter
Planning your new QuickBooks system
Installing QuickBooks
Dealing with the system pre-setup jitters
Running the QuickBooks Setup Interview
Filling the QuickBooks Setup Interview holes
In order to use QuickBooks, you need to do two things: Install the QuickBooks software and run either the Express Start or Advanced Setup version of the QuickBooks Setup process. This chapter gives you a bird’s-eye view of both of these tasks. I also want to spend just a few paragraphs talking about some of the planning that you should do before you set up QuickBooks and some of the missing setup steps in the QuickBooks Setup process — things it should do but doesn’t. (Don’t worry: I tell you how to complete the missing steps, partly at the end of this chapter and also in the next chapter.)
Planning Your New QuickBooks System
I start with a couple of big-picture discussions: what accounting does and what accounting systems do. If you understand this big-picture ...
