Book description
Do the numbers in double-quick time with this trusted QuickBooks bestseller!
Running your own business can be cool, but some of the financial side—accounting and payroll, for instance—is not always so cool! That’s why millions of small business owners around the world bank on QuickBooks to easily manage accounting and financial tasks and save big-time on shelling out for an expensive professional.
QuickBooks 2021 All-in-One For Dummies contains eight information-rich mini-books that account for all your financial line-item asks, showing you step-by-step how to plan your perfect budget, simplify tax returns, manage inventory, create invoices, track costs, generate reports, and accurately check off every other accounting and financial-management task that comes across your desk!
- Get the most out of QuickBooks 2021
- Sharpen up on the basics with an accounting primer
- Craft a world-class business plan
- Process taxes and payroll in double-quick time
Written by expert CPA and small business advisor Stephen L. Nelson, QuickBooks All-in-One 2021 For Dummies is the best-selling blue-chip go-to that will save you time and money—and will allow you to enjoy the fruits of your labors!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Book 1: An Accounting Primer
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Book 2: Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks
- Chapter 1: Setting Up QuickBooks
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Chapter 2: Loading the Master File Lists
- Setting Up the Chart of Accounts List
- Setting Up the Item List
- Working with the Price Level List
- Using Sales Tax Codes
- Setting Up a Payroll Item List
- Setting Up Classes
- Setting Up a Customer List
- Setting Up the Vendor List
- Setting Up a Fixed Assets List
- Setting Up a Price Level List
- Setting Up a Billing Rate Level List
- Setting Up Your Employees
- Setting Up an Other Names List
- Setting Up the Profile Lists
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Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning QuickBooks
- Accessing the Preferences Settings
- Setting the Accounting Preferences
- Setting the Bills Preferences
- Setting the Calendar Preferences
- Setting the Checking Preferences
- Changing the Desktop View
- Setting Finance Charge Calculation Rules
- Setting General Preferences
- Controlling Integrated Applications
- Controlling Inventory
- Controlling How Jobs and Estimates Work
- Dealing with Multiple Currencies
- Starting Integrated Payment Processing
- Controlling How Payroll Works
- Telling QuickBooks How Reminders Should Work
- Specifying Reports & Graphs Preferences
- Setting Sales & Customers Preferences
- Specifying How Sales Are Taxed
- Setting the Search Preferences
- Setting the Send Forms Preferences
- Fine-Tuning the Service Connection
- Controlling Spell Checking
- Controlling How 1099 Tax Reporting Works
- Setting Time & Expenses Preferences
- Book 3: Bookkeeping Chores
- Book 4: Accounting Chores
- Book 5: Financial Management
- Book 6: Business Plans
- Book 7: Care and Maintenance
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Book 8: Appendixes
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Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel
- Starting Excel
- Stopping Excel
- Explaining Excel’s Workbooks
- Putting Text, Numbers, and Formulas in Cells
- Writing Formulas
- Scrolling through Big Workbooks
- Copying and Cutting Cell Contents
- Formatting Cell Contents
- Recognizing That Functions Are Simply Formulas
- Saving and Opening Workbooks
- Printing Excel Workbooks
- One Other Thing to Know
- Appendix B: Government Web Resources for Businesses
- Appendix C: Glossary of Accounting and Financial Terms
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Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: QuickBooks 2021 All-in-One For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2020
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119676805
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