QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual [Paperback]

Bonnie Biafore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2005 | Series: Missing Manual

If your company is ready to minimize paperwork and maximize productivity, control spending and boost sales, QuickBooks 2006 can help you make it happen--but only if you know how to use it. And it doesn't come with a manual. Lucky for you, there's QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual, the comprehensive, up-to-date guide to saving time and money while beefing up business with QuickBooks.

Award-winning author and financial whiz Bonnie Biafore helps you select the best fit for your company from Intuit's QuickBooks line of financial management software, which includes five products ranging from basic accounting software for small businesses to sophisticated industry-specific enterprise solutions. She then shows you how to tweak and tailor it to your company's needs so you can manage your finances more effectively and efficiently than ever before.

If you're new to QuickBooks or to the 2006 version, you'll get started with ease and become quickly proficient with Biafore's tutorials on making and managing a company file and creating accounts, customers, jobs, invoice items, and other lists. If you're a more advanced user, you'll find countless tips, tricks, and shortcuts for becoming a QuickBooks pro. And everyone at every level will benefit from Biafore's seasoned, sensible advice on business accounting and finance.

Under Biafore's expert direction, you will be able to use QuickBooks for a lot more than everyday bookkeeping. Beyond billing and payroll servicing, generating business forms and easing end-of-year tax preparation, QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual shows you how to use QuickBooks to accomplish things like inventory control, budget building, and report creation for evaluating every aspect of an enterprise.

With Biafore's clear and friendly explanations and step-by-step instructions for every QuickBooks feature (along with plenty of real-world examples), you'll learn how to take advantage of online banking options, data exchange with other programs, and sophisticated planning and tracking tools for achieving maximum business success. QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual makes QuickBooks more powerful than you thought possible.

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About the Author

Bonnie Biafore is an award-winning author of several books on investing, finance, project management, and software. She's a columnist for Better Investing magazine and the author of the NAIC Stock Selection Handbook. A PMI-certified project management professional with more than 20 years experience, she also manages information technology and software development projects in a variety of industries. She is the author of O'Reilly's "Quickbooks 2005: The Missing Manual" and "Online Investing Hacks".

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Pogue Press; Revised edition (December 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596101848
• ISBN-13: 978-0596101848
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > Business & Investing > Skills > Bookkeeping

More About the Author

Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous organizer, whether setting up software demos, cooking gourmet meals, or scheduling a vacation to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. When she isn't managing projects for clients, Bonnie writes about project management, personal finance, investing, and technology. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and finance into easy to understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor.

Bonnie is the author of QuickBooks 2012: The Missing Manual, Personal Investing: The Missing Manual, Project 2010: The Missing Manual, Successful Project Management, Your Project Management Coach, the Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook, Online Investing Hacks, and many other books.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars QuickBooks 2006 The Missing Manual, April 10, 2006

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A. Blain - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

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.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Found: The Missing Manual!, January 27, 2006

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Vikki A. Ellison - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

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!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!, July 4, 2006

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John R. Vacca "Tech Write Independent Reviewer" (Pomeroy, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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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.