[Dummies 01] • QuickBooks 2019 For Dummies by Nelson, Stephen L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Table of Contents Introduction

About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

Part 1: Quickly into QuickBooks

Chapter 1: QuickBooks: The Heart of Your Business

Why QuickBooks? What Explains QuickBooks’ Popularity? What’s Next, Dude? How to Succeed with QuickBooks

Chapter 2: The Big Setup

Getting Ready for QuickBooks Setup Stepping through QuickBooks Setup The Rest of the Story Should You Get Your Accountant’s Help?

Chapter 3: Populating QuickBooks Lists

The Magic and Mystery of Items Adding Employees to Your Employee List Customers Are Your Business It’s Just a Job Adding Vendors to Your Vendor List The Other Lists Organizing Lists Printing Lists Exporting List Items to Your Word Processor Dealing with the Chart of Accounts List

Part 2: Daily Entry Tasks

Chapter 4: Creating Invoices and Credit Memos

Making Sure That You’re Ready to Invoice Customers Preparing an Invoice Fixing Invoice Mistakes Preparing a Credit Memo Fixing Credit Memo Mistakes Printing Invoices and Credit Memos Sending Invoices and Credit Memos via Email Customizing Your Invoices and Credit Memos

Chapter 5: Reeling in the Dough

Recording a Sales Receipt Printing a Sales Receipt Special Tips for Retailers Correcting Sales Receipt Mistakes Recording Customer Payments Correcting Mistakes in Customer Payments Entries Making Bank Deposits Improving Your Cash Inflow

Chapter 6: Paying the Bills

Pay Now or Pay Later? Recording Your Bills by Writing Checks Recording Your Bills the Accounts Payable Way Paying Your Bills Tracking Vehicle Mileage Paying Sales Tax

Chapter 7: Inventory Magic

Setting Up Inventory Items When You Buy Stuff When You Sell Stuff How Purchase Orders Work Assembling a Product Time for a Reality Check Dealing with Multiple Inventory Locations The Lazy Person’s Approach to Inventory

Chapter 8: Keeping Your Checkbook

Writing Checks Depositing Money in a Checking Account Transferring Money between Accounts Working with Multiple Currencies To Delete or to Void? Handling NSF Checks from Customers The Big Register Phenomenon

Chapter 9: Paying with Plastic

Tracking Business Credit Cards Entering Credit Card Transactions Reconciling Your Credit Card Statement and Paying the Bill So What about Debit and ATM Cards? So What about Customer Credit Cards?

Part 3: Stuff You Do from Time to Time

Chapter 10: Printing Checks

Getting the Printer Ready Printing a Check Printing a Checking Register

Chapter 11: Payroll

Getting Ready to Do Payroll without Help from QuickBooks Doing Taxes the Right Way Getting Ready to Do Payroll with QuickBooks Paying Your Employees Paying Payroll Liabilities Preparing Quarterly Payroll Tax Returns Filing Annual Returns and Wage Statements The State Wants Some Money, Too

Chapter 12: Building the Perfect Budget

Is This a Game You Want to Play? All Joking Aside: Some Basic Budgeting Tips A Budgeting Secret You Won’t Learn in College Setting Up a Secret Plan Adjusting a Secret Plan Forecasting Profits and Losses Projecting Cash Flows Using the Business Planner Tools

Chapter 13: Online with QuickBooks

Doing the Electronic Banking Thing A Quick Review of the Other Online Opportunities

Part 4: Housekeeping Chores

Chapter 14: The Balancing Act

Balancing a Bank Account Eleven Things to Do If Your Non-Online Account Doesn’t Balance

Chapter 15: Reporting on the State of Affairs

What Kinds of Reports Are There, Anyway? Creating and Printing a Report Reports Made to Order Processing Multiple Reports Your Other Reporting Options Last but Not Least: The QuickReport

Chapter 16: Job Estimating, Billing, and Tracking

Turning On Job Costing Setting Up a Job Creating a Job Estimate Revising an Estimate Turning an Estimate into an Invoice Comparing Estimated Item Amounts with Actual Item Amounts Charging for Actual Time and Costs Tracking Job Costs

Chapter 17: File Management Tips

Backing Up Is (Not That) Hard to Do Using the Accountant’s Copy Working with Portable Files Using an Audit Trail Using a Closing Password

Chapter 18: Fixed Assets and Vehicle Lists

What Is Fixed-Assets Accounting? Fixed-Assets Accounting in QuickBooks Setting Up a Fixed Asset List Tracking Vehicle Mileage

Part 5: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Tips for Handling (Almost) Ten Tricky Situations

Tracking Depreciation Selling an Asset Selling a Depreciable Asset Owner’s Equity in a Sole Proprietorship Owner’s Equity in a Partnership Owner’s Equity in a Corporation Multiple-State Accounting Getting a Loan Repaying a Loan

Chapter 20: (Almost) Ten Secret Business Formulas

The First “Most Expensive Money You Can Borrow” Formula The Second “Most Expensive Money You Can Borrow” Formula The “How Do I Break Even?” Formula The “You Can Grow Too Fast” Formula The First “What Happens If …?” Formula The Second “What Happens If …?” Formula The Economic Order Quantity (Isaac Newton) Formula The Rule of 72

Part 6: Appendixes

Appendix A: Installing QuickBooks in Ten Easy Steps Appendix B: If Numbers Are Your Friends

Keying In on Profit In the Old Days, Things Were Different What Does an Italian Monk Have to Do with Anything? Two Dark Shadows in the World of Accounting The Danger of Shell Games

Appendix C: Sharing QuickBooks Files

Sharing a QuickBooks File on a Network Installing QuickBooks for Network Use Setting User Permissions Specifying Multiuser Mode Working in Multiuser Mode

Index About the Author Advertisement Page Connect with Dummies End User License Agreement

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