Introduction
Few people read introductions to reference books, so I’ll make this brief. I just want to tell you which versions of QuickBooks this book works for, what’s in the reference, what it assumes about your existing skills, and what conventions I use.
About This Book
The desktop version of QuickBooks comes in several flavors, including QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. This reference talks about QuickBooks 24 Enterprise Solutions, which is a superset of QuickBooks 2024 Premier and QuickBooks 2024 Pro. If you’re using QuickBooks Self-Employed or QuickBooks Online, you shouldn’t use this book. Instead, you should check out QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 2024 Edition, by David Ringstrom.
On the other hand, even though this book is written for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, if you’re using QuickBooks Premier or QuickBooks Pro, don’t worry. You’re just fine with this book. And don’t freak out if you’re using some version of QuickBooks that’s very similar to QuickBooks 2024, such as QuickBooks 2023 or QuickBooks 2022. Although this reference is about QuickBooks 2024, it also works just fine for the 2022, 2023, and probably 2025 versions of QuickBooks because QuickBooks is a very mature product at this point. The changes from one year to the next are modest. This means that if you’re using QuickBooks 2023, stuff may look a little different if you closely compare the images in this book with what you see on your screen, but the information ...