QuickBooks 2005 for Dummies

by Stephen L. Nelson and MBA Stephen L. Nelson

Book Overview

Here's what you need to become your own accountant If you love running a business, but despise keeping the books, this is the book for you Revised throughout to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to QuickBooks, Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies covers the basics, walks you through the software installation, and guides you step-by-step through various accounting functions, including: Creating invoices and credit memos Tracking accounts receivable and payable Paying bills Monitoring and managing inventory Balancing the books Printing checks or paying with plastic Doing your banking online Processing payroll Written by Stephen Nelson, the author of more than 100 books, including all editions of QuickBooks For Dummies, Quickbooks 2005 For Dummies takes you beyond everyday accounting tasks and helps you use information to boost your productivity and profits by: Generating and sharing financial reports Building budgets Efficiently estimating, billing, and tracking jobs To expedite your bookwork and grow your business by the numbers, you don't have to hire expensive consultants or become a CPA; just become a QBE--a QuickBooks Expert. With this book and your QuickBooks software, everything you need to know is at your fingertips

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764576615
• ISBN13: 9780764576614
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Donna

The book is extremely helpful to me as a part time bookkeeper. The merchant offered a great: price, customer service and delivery time. I would definitely buy from this merchant in the future.

Turning Dummies into smarties :)

I have had my Quickbooks software for almost two years now. The only part of the whole entire download I could ever figure out how to use was my employees information files, and sending invoices. I own a construction company and have no bookkeeping education, and figured my investment was a very big waste of money. The language was geared towards college graduates in the field. The different catagories did not pertain to my business needs...and without understanding what those catagory titles meant to begin with...I may have well been reading greek. My last resort before scrapping the whole intire software and hiring a firm to do my bookkeeping, was to buy the Dummies book for Quikbooks. Within the first hour of reading a few pages..and scimming over topics of importance to me and my company..I was entering invoices that had been paid, setting up ledgers, writing payroll checks etc. My first dealings with the Dummies books was years ago when I happened across one that was Internet for Dummies. Every Dummies book since then has been nothing short of a blessing to me. They ALL are so brilliantly worded and illistraited, that it is as if someone is standing right in front of you talking to you in every day lamen language. I truly believe that anyone who has a problem with anything where there is a Dummies book to help on that subject...you'd be a fool not to buy it. I look forward to having my own library section of Dummy books and will continue to learn learn learn!

My user likes it.

I am a network administrator, so I don't use this book directly. It seems to serve my end user's purpose though, so from that perspective it's a good book.

Pleased with content

I was greatly pleased with the thorough explinations in this book. Easy to read and follow. Written in 'layman' terms.

Hints from the Author

People rather commonly write me and ask whether they should get this book, QuickBooks 2005 for Dummies, or the QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies. So let me post my standard answer to this question... If you want help with tbe basics--say you're brand new to QuickBooks or small business bookkeeping and you just want to get started--I recommend QuickBooks 2005 for Dummies. QuickBooks 2005 for Dummies doesn't delve into every nook and cranny. Rather, it gives you enough information to do reasonable small business bookkeeping for your business ... and with a minimal amount of headache and heartbreak. If you already know the basics of QuickBooks or want to be as sophisticated as possible in your accounting and financial management, I recommend the QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies. That book covers everyhing the regular "QuickBooks 2005 for Dummies" title does... and then a whole lot more. The QuickBooks All-in-One Reference for Dummies, for example, does delve into every nook and cranny... and it covers related topics, too, such as using QuickBooks data to do financial analysis. Hope that helps... Steve Nelson