Law Practice Accounting Using QuickBooks [Spiral-bound]

Diana Benton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2004

Law Practice Accounting Using QuickBooks takes the number one small business accounting program, QuickBooks, and shows you how to operate both your Operating and Trust bank accounts. You will learn how to setup your Operating Account, Trust Account, Clients, Vendors, Track Time for billing, Clients Trust monies, Retainers, Conflicts of Interest and much more.

This hands-on manual is complete with exercises and screen shots to make it simple to follow. Easy to read and understand, it takes the sometimes complicated area of accounting and shows you all you need to know to get your law practice up and running.

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About the Author

Diana Benton graduated with honors from Saint Leo University with a Bachelors in Computer Information Systems. She has over 20 years accounting experience and has been a QuickBooks Certified Professional Advisor since the inception of that program. She is also a member of the American Association of Professional Bookkeepers.

Working with QuickBooks for over ten years, she concentrates on setting small business up and training them how to use QuickBooks. She is owner and President of Computer Technology Services, Inc., a computer consulting firm that focuses on QuickBooks training. She has set up hundreds of small business and law firms and trained them on the use of QuickBooks.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 120 pages
• Publisher: Computer Technology Services; 2nd edition (May 2004)
• ISBN-10: 0971926956
• ISBN-13: 978-0971926950
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,252,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trust Accounting with QuickBooks is totally doable!, May 20, 2010

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John R. Albrektson "Solarbuddy" (Redlands, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law Practice Accounting Using QuickBooks (Spiral-bound)

When we were looking for a trust accounting system we were told over and over, "You can't use Quickbooks!" A popular CalBar speaker even has a career touting his method of using Quicken (which he'll sell you after the seminar) and assured me that QuickBooks not only wouldn't work, it would violate all the California requirements for trust accounting.

Ms. Benton's book was the solution. Her system keeps trust finances cleanly separated from office finances, and is a painless system that takes advantage of all of our existing QuickBooks systems. It was a steep learning curve, but I documented the steps in our in-house Wiki and it works flawlessly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you must use QuickBooks, May 8, 2009

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D. Olsson "Training Critic" (Eugene, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law Practice Accounting Using QuickBooks (Spiral-bound)

I have moved on from QB, after realizing its limitations for client billing. But if you use QB, this is an excellent resource. And the author even responded, promptly and informatively, to a couple of my email queries. She's the real deal.