QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual [Kindle Edition]

Bonnie Biafore (Author)

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Product Description

QuickBooks 2009 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual takes you beyond QuickBooks' help resources: you not only learn how the program works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense.

QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions. With this book, you will:

• Get more out of QuickBooks whether you're a beginner or an old pro.
• Learn how QuickBooks can help you boost sales, control spending, and save on taxes.
• Set up and manage your files to fit your company's specific needs.
• Use QuickBooks reports to evaluate every aspect of your enterprise.
• Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks.
• Discover new timesaving features like like better multi-user performance, a homepage dashboard, revamped online banking.
• Build budgets and plan for the future to make your business more successful.

QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2009 for Windows.

About the Author

Bonnie Biafore writes about project management, personal finance, and investing. She's the author of Project 2007: The Missing Manual, as well as Online Investing Hacks, QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual, and Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 9827 KB
• Print Length: 737 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0596522908
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Pogue Press; 1 edition (October 31, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0026OR2G8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,626 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #19 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Bookkeeping
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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.

Customer Reviews

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently Insightful and easy to read, May 2, 2009

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Anthony Kemp - See all my reviews

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This review is from: QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

I have been using QuickBooks for the last 5 years and I recently became a quickbooks pro advisor and have access to Intuit training and support information. Despite that I would buy this book every year! It is well written - providing a lot of practical information and basic examples of why you would or would not use certain features. The advantage with third party books is that they will tell you when a feature does not work the best and will tell you work arounds. I use this as a reference book, and to refresh me on features I may not be using. I seem always to learn a new tid bit whenever I pick it up.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Guidebook, April 3, 2009

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K. Harby "LocustTrees" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

I love this book! I have no formal training in accounting, but I don't need it thanks to The Missing Manual. Basic concepts are explained in a lively, conversational style, and if you already know that material you could skip around to what you need with ease. Don't give up on QuickBooks Pro 2009 until you get this book! NOTE: Does NOT cover the Mac version of QuickBooks.

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good reference, but not connecting the dots..., May 25, 2009

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John Mikolay "arknsparc" (massena ny) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

accounting is tricky. credit dedit... learning on the fly is my usual way to get through something new. quickbooks IS easier than some software products, but not easy enough to hack through it. their support center is huge seeming but i rarely get a direct reply to my questions... i got this book for these reasons. and as a reference it is thorough, very detailed and written well, it does not tie things together like i needed it too... still searching, may end up in a class or formal training situation after all...