Quickbooks 2001 for dummies / by Stephen L. Nelson.

Content
Introduction
Part 1 you gotta start someplace
Chapter1 the big interview
Getting Ready for the big Interview
Doing the easy step interview
The rest of the story

Chapter 2 Losts of lists
The magic and mystery of items
Adding employees to tour employee list
Customers are your business
Its just a job
Working with your lists

Chapter 3 Sharing QuickBooks files
Sharing a QuickBooks file on a network
Installing QuickBooks for network use
Designating the QuickBooks administrator
Setting up user permissions
Specifying multi-user mode

Part II Daily chores
Chapter 4 Invoices and credit memos
Making sure that you are ready to invoice customers
Preparing an invoice
Fixing invoice mistakes
Preparing a credit memo
etc.

Chapter 5 Reeling in the dough
Recording a cash sales receipt
Printing a sales receipt
Correcting cash sales receipt mistake
Recording customer payments
Correcting mistakes in customer payments entries
etc.

Chapter 6 paying bills
Pay now or pay later
Recording your bills by writing checks
Recording your bills account payable way
Paying you bills
etc.

Cater 7 Inventory magic
Setting up inventory items
When you buy stuff
When you sell stuff
How purchase orders work
etc.

Chapter 8 Keeping your checkbook
Writing checks
Deposit money into a checking account
Transferring money between accounts
To delete or to void
etc

Chapter 9 Tracking business credit cards
Entering credit card transactions
Reconciling your credit card statement and paying the bill
so what about debit card

Part III Stuff u do every so often
Chapter 10 Checking printing
Getting the printer ready
Printing a check
Printing a check register


Chapter 11 Online with QuickBooks
Websites you can access
Doing the electronic banking thing
Using the online payroll services
A Quick review of the other online opportunity


Chapter 12 Payroll
Getting ready to do payroll without QuickBooks 'help
Getting ready to do payroll with QuickBooks
Paying your employees
Paying payroll liabilities
Preparing quarterly payroll tax returns
etc.

13 The balance act
Selecting the account you want to balance
Balancing a bank account
Ten things to do if your account doesn't balance


Chapter 14 Reporting on the state of affairs
What kinds of reports are there anyway
Creating and printing a report
Report made to order
Processing multiple reports
Last but not least: the quick report
etc.

Chapter 15 QuickBooks dirty work
Backing up is (not that) hard to do
accountant's review
Shrinking files that are too big for their own good.

Chapter 16 Building the perfect budget
Is this a game you want to play
All joking aside
Setting up a secret plan

Part IV The part of tens
Chapter 17 (Almost) then knowledge nuggets
about web- ifynig your business
The mechanics are simple
Web publishing is relatively cheap
Why the web is better than paper
Mo, don't read this
etc.
Chapter 18 Ten tips for business owners
Sign all your checks
Don't sign a check the wrong way
Review canceled checks before your bookkeeper does
Choose a bookkeeper who is familiar with computer and knows how to do payroll
etc

Chapter 19 Ten tips for all QuickBooks users
Tricks for learning QuickBooks if you are new on the job
Getting started
Cross-referencing source documents and filling them
Reconciling bank accounts promptly
etc.

Chapter 20 Tips for handling ten tricky situations
Selling an asset
Selling a depreciable asset
Owner's equity in a sole proprietorship
Owner's equity in partnership
Owner's equity corporation
etc.

Chapter 21 (Almost) then little sides fir saving big
Trick 1 benefit from the appropriate pension device
Trick 2 Don't take any more personal vocations
Trick 3 Don't depreciate expense
Trick 4 Incorporate
etc.

22 (Almost)then 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
etc

Includes Index: p. 353 - 365.