Mastering QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide (Version 2002) [Paperback]

Douglas P. Sleeter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2001

At last... the definitive how-to guide for setting up, troubleshooting, and supporting QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro software! Written with accountants and consultants in mind as well as everyday users who want to completely master the software. In this comprehensive reference guide, QuickBooks expert Douglas Sleeter provides inside information that cannot be found in the manual, on-line help, or anywhere else! All examples and recommendations are carefully designed to result in proper accounting entries and detailed reports for management. Included with the book are sample files on diskette.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Clients are clear about one thing-QuickBooks savvy accountants and consultants are worth their weight in gold! Keep clients safe from competitors. Develop the QuickBooks expertise in your firm that will allow you to service existing clients and attract new ones!

Throughout this book, you'll learn troubleshooting techniques designed to help you diagnose and quickly fix problems in your client's QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro files. You'll fastbecome the resource person your clients will demand!

From the Author

I've stuffed The Mastering QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide full of information that I hope you find useful. It is intended for Accountants and Consultants who help clients with QuickBooks and regular users who want to completely master the software.

Most of what you find in this book cannot be found in the QuickBooks manual or on-line help or anywhere else. All the recommendations are based on years of experience helping literally thousands of clients with QuickBooks. QuickBooks is an accounting program, so first and foremost, I strive to provide examples and recommendations that use proper accounting procedures and produce accurate results. In addition, since there are often many ways to achieve similar results in the program, we feel it's important to use the program as it was intended. For example, we usually recommend against using journal entries.

This book is not a tutorial on how to use QuickBooks. Throughout the book, you'll find troubleshooting techniques designed to help you diagnose and fix problem situations. You'll also find instructions for how you can help your clients use QuickBooks, completely. You'll be able to help your clients do proper bookkeeping (the compliance part) and organize information that is required by management to predict the future so that they can make informed business decisions.

I hope you find the information helpful, and I welcome your feedback. Please email me ([e-mail]) with suggestions.
Douglas Sleeter
June 1998

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Product Details

• Paperback: 580 pages
• Publisher: The Sleeter Group, Inc. (July 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0965953629
• ISBN-13: 978-0965953627
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,961,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Version of this Mastery Guide Written Every Year, April 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide (Version 2002) (Paperback)

(...) It is a true mastery guide
designed for the accounting professional that must know the correct
answer to any QuickBooks question. I strongly recommend this guide
for those looking for the one book that addresses all the tough
questions that even the TechSupport guys cannot answer and has all the
tricks and special solution to get the most out of QuickBooks. A new
version is published every year within 6 months of the release of the
software.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Consulting Guide, April 18, 2002

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Wayne Schulz "mas90 accounting software guru" (Glastonbury, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide (Version 2002) (Paperback)

A fine guide to QuickBooks consulting. I taught QuickBooks for 2 years for a local organization and this book would have been a lifesaver for many of my students. It goes over many of the features in QuickBooks as well as providing a ton of information on features (and bugs) that aren't documented in the manual. If you use QuickBooks or support clients on the software then you should look into this manual. It covers a LOT of new ground and I'm certain you'll get something out of it.

5.0 out of 5 stars The right answer to many QuickBooks questions is at hand., May 5, 2003

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Darryl S. Abrahms (Redmond, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide (Version 2002) (Paperback)

As a full time QuickBooks instructor for over 10 years, there have been times when I wanted a reference to validate or guide me to the best solution on practical problems that I encountered with a client's company file. This book is the answer. Mr. Sleeter has created a roadmap for both new and experienced QuickBooks accountants, consultants, and power users that can save them from many wasted hours learning QuickBooks by trial and error, or having to go back to re-enter data because the solution they tried does not work.
It goes beyond mechanical matters and deals with utilizing QuickBooks properly from an accounting, business, and technical point of view, for example finding and correcting errors during bank reconciliation. This structured resource covers the best way to work with real issues, some of which are not covered in the instruction manual like setting up customer and vendor opening balances to track aging, warning about memo information in journal entries, adjusting income accounts, and other tricky transactions. Important topics are "Things Accountants Must Know" and "Troubleshooting Data Files".
The Consultant's Reference Guide starts by describing new features of the current edition of QuickBooks, and logically progresses through company file setup and special setup issues. Numerous examples show the reader what action to take to ensure data accuracy when working with complex problems. The easy to read graphics, step-by-step explanations and organization of the contents make it worthwhile as both reference and self-paced tutorial.
Subjects covered provide an excellent balance of information like fundamental details of setting up payroll through advanced issues of networking QuickBooks and QuickBooks Point of Sale. If you are an accountant or provide QuickBooks professional services owning this book will give you confidence that the right answer to many QuickBooks questions is at hand.