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QuickBooks 2024 All-in-One For Dummies
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QuickBooks 2024 All-in-One For Dummies

by Stephen L. Nelson, Christian Block
November 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
640 pages
16h 20m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Setting Up QuickBooks

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Planning how you’ll use QuickBooks

Bullet Installing the QuickBooks program

Bullet Preparing for setup

Bullet Setting up QuickBooks

Bullet Figuring out your starting trial balance

To use QuickBooks, you need to do two things: Install the QuickBooks software and run the QuickBooks Setup process. This chapter gives you a bird’s-eye view of both 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 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 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 stuff from the very start, you’ll find that the QuickBooks Setup process makes a whole lot more sense. ...

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