Quickbooks 2012 For Dummies - Softcover

Nelson, MBA Stephen L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118091205 ISBN 13: 9781118091203

Publisher: For Dummies, 2011

Synopsis

QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies is a big help for small businesses

Most businesses can't afford a Big Four accounting firm to handle their books. That's why so many small-to-mid-size businesspeople turn to QuickBooks to help them keep track of their finances. Bestselling author Stephen Nelson returns with updated coverage of the latest revisions and enhancements to the leading small business accounting software package. After a quick review of bookkeeping basics, you'll discover how QuickBooks can help you build the perfect budget, process payroll, simplify your tax return prep work, create invoices, manage inventory, generate income statements, balance accounts, and much more.

You'll learn what you should do before you install and set up QuickBooks, then move onto basic bookkeeping concepts and the fundamentals of building a solid budget. You'll also discover how to enter data, create invoices, and record and print sales receipts; keep track of your inventory, payroll, and budgets; monitor your job costs; and generate the most common financial reports with ease.

• Veteran author Stephen Nelson updates his perennial bestseller and offers you easy-to-understand coverage of the newest release of QuickBooks
• Enables you to take control of managing your own business accounting and financial management tasks so you can avoid having to hire expensive outside help
• Provides expert advice for getting started with QuickBooks, building the perfect budget, processing payroll, creating invoices, managing inventory, tracking job costs, generating income statements, balancing accounts, creating financial reports, and more

QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies helps you handle your financial management tasks more effectively so that you can get down to business!

About this title

About the Author

Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, provides accounting, business advisory, tax planning, and tax preparation services to small businesses. He belongs to the American Institute of CPAs and holds an MBA in Finance and a Master's in Taxation. His 100-plus books have sold more than four million copies.

From the Back Cover

Learn to:

• Organize financial information for your business
• Pay bills and process invoices and payroll
• Build a budget, manage inventory, and track expenses
• Prepare taxes and generate financial reports

Manage your business finances the easy way with QuickBooks

Get your small business rolling with great ideas, exceptional organization skills, unique products or services and a trusted, accessible, accounting system like QuickBooks. QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies shows you how to use this popular business accounting program to clearly understand your finances and run your business with ease.

• Start here discover what you need to do to be ready for QuickBooks, set up the software, reel in the dough, and pay the bills
• Get it together learn to enter data, create professional-looking invoices, and record and print sales receipts
• Financial housekeeping estimate jobs, check inventory, and evaluate fixed assets
• Watch that dough effectively keep track of your checkbook, credit card accounts, inventory, payroll, and budgets
• Narrow it down get a company snapshot telling you who needs to get paid, who owes money, and what needs to be done
• Monitoring made easy create financial reports and track every dollar coming in and going out
• Fear tax time no more organize your data and simplify tax preparation
• Get on-track, online securely download bank and credit card transactions directly into QuickBooks

Open the book and find:

• Steps to setting up and succeeding with QuickBooks
• How to compute employee wages and payroll deductions
• Ways to customize invoices and memos
• What you need to estimate jobs and track costs
• How to keep an eye on inventory
• Tips for building the perfect budget
• What to do before tax time
• Special guidelines business owners should never forget

From the Inside Flap

Learn to:

• Organize financial information for your business
• Pay bills and process invoices and payroll
• Build a budget, manage inventory, and track expenses
• Prepare taxes and generate financial reports

Manage your business finances the easy way with QuickBooks

Get your small business rolling with great ideas, exceptional organization skills, unique products or services — and a trusted, accessible, accounting system like QuickBooks. QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies shows you how to use this popular business accounting program to clearly understand your finances and run your business with ease.

• Start here — discover what you need to do to be ready for QuickBooks, set up the software, reel in the dough, and pay the bills
• Get it together — learn to enter data, create professional-looking invoices, and record and print sales receipts
• Financial housekeeping — estimate jobs, check inventory, and evaluate fixed assets
• Watch that dough — effectively keep track of your checkbook, credit card accounts, inventory, payroll, and budgets
• Narrow it down — get a company snapshot telling you who needs to get paid, who owes money, and what needs to be done
• Monitoring made easy — create financial reports and track every dollar coming in and going out
• Fear tax time no more — organize your data and simplify tax preparation
• Get on-track, online — securely download bank and credit card transactions directly into QuickBooks

Open the book and find:

• Steps to setting up and succeeding with QuickBooks
• How to compute employee wages and payroll deductions
• Ways to customize invoices and memos
• What you need to estimate jobs and track costs
• How to keep an eye on inventory
• Tips for building the perfect budget
• What to do before tax time
• Special guidelines business owners should never forget

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118091205
• ISBN 13: 9781118091203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408