QuickBooks 2016: The Best Guide for Small Business, 2nd Edition

Set up a complete small business financial management system quickly and easily. Written by Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors, QuickBooks® 2016: The Best Guide for Small Business shows you how to maximize all of the desktop software’s powerful capabilities, including the new and improved features for 2016.

From processing invoices to managing payroll, you will learn how QuickBooks Desktop versions help you control your business’s financial operations. Sprinkled throughout the book are tips for tracking inventory, monitoring sales, and much more. In addition, get recommendations for working with an accountant and organizing tax information. Run your small business efficiently and effectively using the tested techniques and valuable advice in this practical guide to QuickBooks Desktop 2016

• Tailor QuickBooks Desktop to meet your company needs
• Customize entries for customers and vendors
• Make Items work for you
• Control bank and credit card accounts
• Pay your employees and payroll taxes with ease
• Understand the built-in budget and planning tools
• Manage inventory for your company
• Protect your data
• Create dynamic reports
• Breeze through year-end and tax time

Table of Contents

Part One Getting Started Using the Desktop Version of QuickBooks
Chapter 1 Preparing Your QuickBooks Company
Chapter 2 Entering Customers and Vendors
Chapter 3 Creating Items, Other Lists, and Your Beginning Balances

Part Two Daily Operations Using QuickBooks
Chapter 4 Invoicing and Other Sales Transactions
Chapter 5 Managing Accounts Receivable
Chapter 6 Recording and Paying Your Bills
Chapter 7 Working with Bank and Credit Card Accounts
Chapter 8 Using Bank Feeds

Part Three Payroll
Chapter 9 Establishing QuickBooks Payroll
Chapter 10 Paying Employees and Payroll Taxes and Creating Forms

Part Four Using QuickBooks Reports, Planning Tools, and Budgets
Chapter 11 Useful QuickBooks Reports and Analysis Tools
Chapter 12 Using the QuickBooks Budget and Planning Tools

Part Five Work with Inventory and Personalize QuickBooks
Chapter 13 Manage Inventory in QuickBooks
Chapter 14 Customizing QuickBooks for Your Company

Part Six Additional Tasks in QuickBooks
Chapter 15 Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure and Healthy
Chapter 16 Understanding General Journal Entries and Other Special Tasks
Chapter 17 Posting at Year’s End and Sending the Year-End Accountant’s Copy
Chapter 18 Fixing Common Problems