QuickBooks 2017 For Dummies

Organize your business finances

Create invoices, pay bills, and record receipts

Track inventory and monitor your business

Eliminate accounting woes—quickly!

Want to get a better handle on your business finances? QuickBooks is the go-to accounting software for small business. This bestselling guide helps you discover how to use it to keep your finances in order—without losing your cool. From tracking sales and inventory to paying bills and processing payroll, it gives you the guidance you need to quickly and painlessly check “accounting” off your small business to-do list.

Inside…

• Record and print receipts
• Fix mistakes with payments
• Make deposits
• Track customer invoices
• Deal with deposits
• Handle NSF checks
• Use online banking services
• Create estimates

Table of Contents

Part 1 Quickly into QuickBooks
Chapter 1 QuickBooks: The Heart of Your Business
Chapter 2 The Big Setup
Chapter 3 Populating QuickBooks Lists

Part 2 Daily Entry Tasks
Chapter 4 Creating Invoices and Credit Memos
Chapter 5 Reeling in the Dough
Chapter 6 Paying the Bills
Chapter 7 Inventory Magic
Chapter 8 Keeping Your Checkbook
Chapter 9 Paying with Plastic

Part 3 Stuff You Do from Time to Time
Chapter 10 Printing Checks
Chapter 11 Payroll
Chapter 12 Building the Perfect Budget
Chapter 13 Online with QuickBooks

Part 4 Housekeeping Chores
Chapter 14 The Balancing Act
Chapter 15 Reporting on the State of Affairs
Chapter 16 Job Estimating, Billing, and Tracking
Chapter 17 File Management Tips
Chapter 18 Fixed Assets and Vehicle Lists

Part 5 The Part of Tens
Chapter 19 Tips for Handling (Almost) Ten Tricky Situations
Chapter 20 (Almost) Ten Secret Business Formulas

Part 6 Appendixes
Appendix A Installing QuickBooks in 11 Easy Steps
Appendix B If Numbers Are Your Friends
Appendix C Sharing QuickBooks Files