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Quickbooks(R) 2003: The Official Guide
- By Kathy Ivens (Paperback, released 13 November, 2002)
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For businesspeople who can't seem to justify a dedicated accounting department, QuickBooks 2000 can provide the needed recordkeeping and reporting capabilities. QuickBooks 2000: The Official Guide, the latest official QuickBooks book from respected author Kathy Ivens, decodes the QuickBooks (and QuickBooks Pro) interfaces and shows you how to fit these popular accounting packages into your way of doing business. Strangely, the Customer Center receives no mention, but Ivens covers practically everything else, making it easy for you to flip right to a discussion of whatever is confusing you at the moment. You'll usually find the discussion organized around standard business procedures rather than the software's design and terminology. Ivens is at her best when she explains how to reconcile the inflexibilities of QuickBooks with the realities of business: for example, how to deal with a customer who pays after 20 days but takes the three percent discount that was supposed to be good for only 10 days. (QuickBooks wants to stick the customer with the remaining three percent, but Ivens shows how to account for your own generosity.) She also explains such mysteries as how to create a template that yields warehouse pick lists along with invoices, and how to properly collect sales tax from customers in multiple states. Overall, this is a highly practical guide to using QuickBooks 2000 as a management tool for small and medium-size businesses. --David Wall Topics covered: Intuit QuickBooks 2000 and QuickBooks Pro 2000 as accounting and management tools. This book documents these features of the programs completely, touching on initial setup before explaining payables, receivables, payroll, taxes, inventory, time tracking, and paper forms.
ISBN: 007222679X
ASIN: 007222679X
SalesRank: 41778
Quickbooks(R) 2003: The Official Guide - - By Kathy Ivens
REVIEWS:
Rating: 5
Goes beyond all other similar books
The best thing about this book is all the great information that isn't available from QuickBooks -either the help files or the support site. Miss Ivens shows you how to work around the QuickBooks limitations, how to do things the help files say aren't supported in Quickbooks, and even gives realworld examples to make it easy to do the same things on your own books.
Her writing is clear as crystal and very conversational, so it's a pleasure to read the book. My accountant loved the fact that she explained what QuickBooks is doing in the background with the General Ledger when you create transactions. He went out and bought himself a copy, and is now recommending it to all his clients.
This book, filled with great tricks to get more out of Quickbooks, is also a good basic primer on understanding bookkeeping. This is the only book you need if you're running a business with Quickbooks - you can throw away the books that came with the software.
Rating: 5
Best of All
I spent a long time in a bookstore reading through books on Quickbooks when I first installed the software. I knew in 1 minute this was the book I had to buy (from Amazon, it was cheaper than at the store).
Anyone counting on the other books is struggling harder with Quickbooks than those of us who were smart enough to buy this book. Kathy Ivens writes as if she knows you, and knows exactly the questions you have.
Her hints and tips about setting up the software are pure genius. She explains the bookkeeping theories behind every suggestion she makes.
This book is replete with real-life bookkeeping tasks and the best way to perform them - and why you should perform them that way. When she gives choices about doing transactions, she explains exactly what the ramifications are of each choice - so you can make decisions based on your own business, and your own bookkeeping needs.
This is a brilliant example of how to write a book about using software.
Rating: 1
No better than the User's Guide
There are a few tips and shortcuts in the book that are handy but don't look to it to help you figure out how to use Quickbooks to customize your business. There are few examples of how the various features can actually be used and, most dismaying of all, no analysis of how the things you're instructed to do actually affect your accounts.