Customer Reviews

QuickBooks 2006: The Official Guide

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This book has good information for setting up and getting familiar with the basics of quickbooks. If you are an experience quickbook user at any level other than a rank beginner this book will not be particularly helpful. The style is clear and concise and contains some real-world examples and caveats. Recommended for those getting starting with Quickbooks 2006

As you might expect given the title, this is a complete and total guide to installing, setting up, and then running QuickBooks. Also, you just might guess that this particular book covers the 2006 version of the software. And finally you can be pretty sure that a book 672 pages long covers just about everything there is to do with QuickBooks. There's even a section on recording charges for bounced checks -- that's bad checks that your customers give you, because you would never do that

So, since you know all about the contents of the book, what's so special about the book that would make you want to buy this particular book?

1. This is the official book, put out by Quicken Press. It's almost straight from the horse's mouth.

2. Ms. Ivens has written a lot of computer books and she's a very good writer. The book is clear and easy to understand, well illustrated to show what you should be seeing on the screen.

3. This is a quick and easy to see if the new features in QuickBooks 2006 are worth it to you.

One last comment. Should you get audited by the IRS, taking in a bunch of printed reports from QuickBooks makes the auditor think that you at least have some idea about what you're doing. Giving him page after page of printed reports makes him (at least in my audit) not go back to looking over all the bits and pieces of paper I took in with me.

Easily learn Quickbooks features, from basic to more advanced business asks, and tailor Quickbooks 2006 for different uses with QUICKBOOKS 2006: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE. Here's a lesson plan geared to quick customization of forms and purposes, from running payroll and tracking accounts receivable to using budget tools and online banking. Black and white screen shots on every page lend to a format which can be used for either methodical course study or quick browsing reference.

A well-written and comprehensive guide to using the Quickbooks software. If you are a new user, this would be invaluable because of the simple way they explain things and diagram displays that you would espect to see. The actual Quickbooks Users Manual is also very helpful- but can be confusing to new users. This guide usually clears things up nicely if there is any confusion. It is a handy reference for "emergencies". Not a required item to have - but can be very helpful!

Clearly, this is not for anyone who knows anything about accounting, as it is just about right for me. The Quickbooks guidebook does everything it says it will, complete with sequential pictures of the screens. It doesn't actually pay taxes or mail out invoices, therefore I cannot in good conscience give it a five, but otherwise fulfills its promise.

I reviewed a LOT of different Quick Books 2006 software manuals and guides. I borrowed them from the library and read them fully. I found this one to be the best of the best.

I have worked in technology most of my life but was not familiar with Quick Books. This user guide will be very helpful to me in my new position after having my last job eliminated after ten years.

I bought this book before starting a quickbooks class at a local community college. I definitly got more from the book than I did the class. I continually use it as a refrence.

the book is somewhat limited in information as is the software, QB pro 2006 in application and functionality

The new system is nice but uses much larger files, so if you load files across a network it can take forever. I.E. and old file of 15M now is 25M.