QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual

Do you want to take control of your company's financial future? If you do, then this book is for you! Author Bonnie Biafore, has done an outstanding job of writing a practical manual that provides you with step-by-step instructions for using every QuickBooks Pro feature. Biafore, begins by explaining how to create and manage a company file; create accounts, customers, jobs, invoice items, and other lists; and configure preferences. Then, the author describes how to bill customers, manage the money that your customers owe you, pay for expenses, run payroll, manage your bank accounts, and perform other bookkeeping tasks. She also explains how to keep your inventory at just the right level, how to keep track of time and mileage, how to build budgets and plan for the future, and how to use QuickBooks reports to evaluate every aspect of your enterprise. Finally, she helps you take your copy of QuickBooks to the next level. In this most excellent book, the author shows you how to save time and prevent errors by downloading transactions electronically. More importantly, this book helps you set up QuickBooks so your financial data is secure.

If you are one of the many small business owners out there that use QuickBooks 2006 to run the numbers side of your business, you no doubt find QuickBooks to be an essential tool to track the financial progress and how money is entering/exiting your cash flow. Unless you are an absolute superstar, you probably find QuickBooks to be fantastic for your needs, but confusing at times. If you are one of these individuals that uses QuickBooks on a daily basis and you want to become a more savvy 'Books user or just want to dig deeper into this application and understand the whys and hows regarding how things work, look no further than 'QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual' by Bonnie Biafore!! With over 600 pages of material spanning 23 Chapters and 3 Appendixes, this is a solid bargain for the price. Clear, concise writing, lots of pictures, and a layout that is second to none, if you need additional assistance in learning the QuickBooks way, this is a solid buy from the best publishing line that O'Reilly puts out. ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

In the last couple of years, Intuit has added many new tools and features to QuickBooks to help small business owners run and manage their businesses more effectively. Many of these features are strong resource management tools that just a few years ago, mid-sized businesses only dreamed of. But many of the 2,000,000 QuickBooks users are, by their very nature, small business owners who understand their business better than they understand accounting in general. Intuit provides far better documentation for QuickBooks users than what most other software publishers provide, especially packages that cost less than $1,000. But Intuit often just provides a very matter of fact description of important features and reports. Therefore features that could be exceedingly helpful to the user are oftentimes overlooked or not used. Frequently the business owner doesn't see why or how the feature will benefit them in running their business. "QuickBooks 2006 The Missing Manual", by Bonnie Bialifore, picks up where Intuit has left off in providing the whys of QuickBooks features. Her book provides the information with many real business scenarios. Now this gives the average QuickBooks user a bridge from just using the program for basic accounting functions to also using its many additional features and reports. And therefore, they have additional tools to easily manage their business with one program. I would strongly recommend "QuickBooks 2006 The Missing Manual" to any QuickBooks user. Although technical in nature, it is easy to read and has many great ideas.

This is a solid book on Quickbooks. The examples are good. The writing is clear and direct. Screenshots are there, but not overused as in books from other vendors. And best of all there is practical advice on using the product in the large ecosystem of a person's personal finances. And that's really what the average Quickbooks user needs.

Quickbooks 2006 The Missing Manual lays out the setup and use of Quickbooks in a logical, easy-to-follow manner. Although I have used Quickbooks for a few years now, I learned so many tips to make my business financial life easier, not to mention things I should have been doing all along. I spend less time in Quickbooks now and get more accomplished. This is an excellent book, and reference resource!