QuickBooks 2007 The Official Guide (Quickbooks)

By Kathy Ivens

There are more than 2.5 million QuickBooks users QuickBooks Official Guides regularly sell more than 30,000 copies per annual edition There are more than 300,000 Quicken Press books in print This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072263458
• ISBN13: 9780072263459
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Rock solid!

This book is very user friendly and does an excellent job getting to the point and easily explaining functionality. I highly recommend it for the QB user AND boss that wants to understand QB functionality.

Great Resource for QuickBooks Users, Consultants, Accountants, and Bookkeepers!

This book is a must have resource if you use QuickBooks or have clients using QuickBooks. It is comprehensive and includes setting up the data file and getting started, to entering transactions, and using the reports to help you manage your business. It also includes chapters on managing your QuickBooks files and customizing QuickBooks for your business. Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA Author of: Successful QuickBooks Consulting: The Comprehensive Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor Member of Intuit's Certified Trainer Network

Especially helpful with initial set up

I'm an experienced bookkeeper but I still found this book extremely useful. Read this book BEFORE you set up your company - she has good suggestions on entering historical information and other topics. Well written and clear. I would have liked to have more examples, however.

The Practical Side of Quickbooks

Intuit products, such as Quickbooks, have excellent pull-down Help, among the best written in the software industry. Information is well indexed and clearly written with step-by-step instructions. Quickbooks also has an excellent set of video tutorials, which take about 90 minutes if you view all of them (which I recommend). But what the Help and the video tutorials can't really do is give you advice on how to use the accounting system works in practice. How do the individual parts fit into the big picture and what are your choices, depending upon your business, for handling things like Vendor Bills, Customer Sales Receipts, petty cash, etc.? Why would you want to choose one method over another? This is where this book comes in. Ivens answers the very practical questions that everyone has starting out. For example, should I log deposits against customer sales, or should I treat deposits as a lump sum? Why would I want choose one method over the other? This book answers this, and many other practical questions, clearly, with step-by-step instructions for each method and the rationale behind it. I would highly recommend this book to supplement the pull-down Help and the video tutorials to answer the many practical decision that you will have to make about how to set up your system so that it will work best for you.