Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated with math in its practical and more esoteric forms. As an engineer and project manager, she’s thorough and steadfastly attentive to detail but redeems herself by using her sick sense of humor to transform these sleep-inducing subjects into entertaining reading. She writes about accounting and project management. Her books NAIC Stock Selection Handbook and Successful Project Management won major awards from the Society of Technical Communication and APEX Awards for Publication Excellence (but the raves she receives from readers mean much more to her).
Bonnie is also the author of O’Reilly’s Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual, Personal Finance: The Missing Manual, and Online Investing Hacks. She has recorded numerous courses on QuickBooks, project management, Microsoft Project, and other software for Lynda.com. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients, provides training, and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats.
When not chained to her computer, she hikes and cycles in the mountains near her home in Colorado, walks her dogs, hangs upside down in aerial dance classes, and cooks gourmet meals. Her novel, Fresh Squeezed, features hit men, stupid criminals, and much political incorrectness. You can learn more at Bonnie’s website, www.bonniebiafore.com, or email her at bonnie.biafore@gmail.com.
Dawn Schanafelt (editor) is an assistant editor at O’Reilly Media. When not beading, running, or reading, she spends time enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Email: dawn@oreilly.com.
Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) is a production editor and vendor coordinator at O’Reilly Media. In her free time, she’s teaching herself to code, draw, and decorate cakes. She wishes she had more free time. Email: myarbrough@oreilly.com.
Michael Cobb (tech reviewer), a writer and editor on Intuit’s QuickBooks Desktop team, enjoys jamming Texas blues on guitar, drinking way too much coffee, and exploring the world with his gorgeous wife and rambunctious son. Email: michael_cobb@intuit.com.
Bob Russell (proofreader) is a longtime resident of New Hampshire, where he takes every opportunity to ski during the winter and simply get outdoors the rest of the year. He’s also a former musician who now gets his musical kicks watching and listening to his daughters play. Email: bob.russell@octalpub.com.
Bob Pfahler (indexer) is a freelance indexer who indexed this book on behalf of Potomac Indexing, LLC, an international indexing partnership. Besides the subject of computer technology, he specializes in business, management, biography, and history. He can be reached at bob.pfahler@hotmail.com.
No O’Reilly book that I author can go to print without me acknowledging the awesome team at O’Reilly. Dawn Schanafelt is editor extraordinaire. She can spot potential points of confusion in my writing from a mile away and usually comes up with a wonderfully clear alternative. If she’s stumped, she asks for clarification in a way that even a diva (oh, I so hope I haven’t become one) wouldn’t mind. She stays on top of details so they’re taken care of before anyone even thinks to ask. She kept me company via email as we both worked weekend after weekend to complete this book.
My thanks also go to Melanie Yarbrough and the rest of the O’Reilly folks for shepherding my book through the production process. There’s nothing like curling up in a comfy chair with a glass of wine and a great book index. My thanks to Bob Pfahler for making this book’s index special. I am grateful for the eagle eye of proofreader Bob Russell for wrangling punctuation, capitalization, and ungainly sentences into submission. Michael Cobb is indispensable as my technical go-to guy. He made sure my explanations make sense, my instructions are accurate, and answered the questions I couldn’t.
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