QuickBooks for the Restaurant - Softcover

Murphy, Stephanie; Neuneker, Alisa R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470085185 ISBN 13: 9780470085189

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

A step-by-step guide to tracking revenue and expenses, QuickBooks for the Restaurant provides detailed instructions on how to apply the various functions of QuickBooks to control expenses, increase profits, and make informed management decisions. This comprehensive guide contains practical and realistic industry scenarios and practice problems with a section on the simulated financial activity of a typical restaurant operation. Full of helpful accounting advice, QuickBooks tips, and industry scenarios, this book demonstrates how to employ one of the most widely used accounting applications to ensure the financial success of all types of foodservice operations.

About this title

About the Author

Stephanie Murphy, CPA, and ALISA R. NEUNEKER are both Assistant Professors of Business Management at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.

From the Back Cover

Discover how QuickBooks® can help a restaurant succeed

If you're a current or aspiring food-service professional,accounting probably wasn't one of the things that attracted you tothe field. Yet without proper bookkeeping and financial reporting,it's very difficult for any restaurant, bar, catering operation, orother hospitality business to succeed.

This book shows how you can use QuickBooks, the leadingsmall-business accounting software, to automate financialreporting, control costs, and maximize profits in any food orbeverage business. Using the operations of a fictional "AromaRistorante," it walks you through QuickBooks features and functionsstep by step, explains accounting fundamentals, and demonstrateshow QuickBooks can help you solve the real-world challenges ofrunning a food service business.

• Every chapter offers review problems to help you practice theskills you've learned and build critical thinking abilities

• Data files on the companion CD-ROM simulate restaurant scenariosand help you hone your QuickBooks expertise and financialmanagement proficiency

• A comprehensive project at the end of the book helps you pulltogether everything you've learned as you analyze data and makebusiness decisions

• Throughout, QuickBooks Tips and Accounting Tips explain how towork smarter, and Industry Interviews offer real-world tricks ofthe trade

• A companion Web site provides updated data files and coverage ofthe latest QuickBooks versions

The first and only guide to QuickBooks and accountingfundamentals written specifically for the hospitality industry,QuickBooks for the Restaurant offers solid, step-by-stepinstruction, restaurant-specific examples, and coverage of industryissues, such as integration with point-of-sale systems. Withspecial emphasis on the decision-making skills necessary to becomea successful manager in the restaurant industry, QuickBooks for theRestaurant is an invaluable resource for culinary arts students andfood service professionals everywhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470085185
• ISBN 13: 9780470085189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312