QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies: Edition 19

Stephen L. Nelson

Oct 2011 · John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

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!

Ratings and reviews

Pro 2012: DO NOT BUY THIS IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN 3 EMPLOYEES. Once you spent much time setting up the accounting disc, its now time to put in the payroll disc to setup. With in minutes you will find out that if you have more than three employees you will have to upgrade for $100.00 to do unlimited employees. Once you own this product they will turn off the payroll portion if you do not pay hundreds to reactivate the payroll portion of the program when they feel you need to update payroll tax tables. In my state we went many years without tax changes but Quick books still makes you update. Also the program portion also will have to be updated about every two to three years. This company $100.00s the death out of you.

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.