QuickBooks^® 2013 For Dummies^®

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About QuickBooks

About This Book

What You Can Safely Ignore

What You Should Not Ignore (Unless You’re a Masochist)

Three Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Quickly into QuickBooks

Part II: Daily Entry Tasks

Part III: Stuff You Do from Time to Time

Part IV: Housekeeping Chores

Part V: The Part of Tens

Part VI: Appendixes

Conventions Used in This Book

Part I: Quickly into QuickBooks

Chapter 1: QuickBooks: The Heart of Your Business

Why QuickBooks?

Why you need an accounting system

What QuickBooks does

What Explains QuickBooks’ Popularity?

What’s Next, Dude?

How to Succeed with QuickBooks

Budget wisely, Grasshopper

Don’t focus on features

Outsource payroll

Get professional help

Use both the profit and loss statement and the balance sheet

Chapter 2: The Big Setup

Getting Ready for the QuickBooks Setup

The big decision

The trial balance of the century

The mother of all scavenger hunts

Stepping through the QuickBooks Setup

Starting QuickBooks

Using the Express Setup

The Rest of the Story

Should You Get Your Accountant’s Help?

Should You Get Intuit’s Help?

Chapter 3: Populating QuickBooks Lists

The Magic and Mystery of Items

Adding items you might include on invoices

Creating other wacky items for invoices

Editing items

Adding Employees to Your Employee List

Customers ...