QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual [Paperback]

Bonnie Biafore (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0596804024 | ISBN-13: 978-0596804022 | Publication Date: November 3, 2009 | Edition: 1

QuickBooks 2010 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 2010: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions.

• Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company
• Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income
• Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks
• Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center
• Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center
• Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit
• Share information with your accountant quickly and easily

QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual covers only QuickBooks 2010 for Windows.

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About the Author

Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous planner, 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, small business accounting, personal finance, investing, and technology. She's also branching out into other "dry" topics with articles for the Wine Enthusiast. 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 project management into easy to understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor.

Bonnie is the award-wining author of more than a dozen books including Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, Project 2007: The Missing Manual, the Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook (which won an APEX Award of Distinction), Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains, cycles, rehabilitates horses, cooks gourmet food, and, most importantly, tries saying no to additional work assignments.

Product Details

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (November 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596804024
• ISBN-13: 978-0596804022
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 9.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as basic as "For Dummies" books, but still a good reference, December 13, 2009

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As a Quickbooks first-timer, I needed something because I was a little confused and frustrated. This book is a good reference book for those times when I just couldn't figure it out on my own. It is similiar to the actual Quickbooks Help option that is included with the program. It is NOT as basic as the "For Dummies" books, however.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow ... everything you need to know, April 1, 2010

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Barbara B. (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

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I found the QB2010 program VERY complicated and not terribly intuitive, but this book really helped. I was able to learn the basics very quickly and then use it as a reference to look up specific tasks. The index is very complete. I can't compare it to other books about QB2010 since I've never used anything else, but I can't imagine I'd need anything else anyway.

The screenshots were good, too -- large enough to see clearly.

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does not cover Quickbooks for Mac, March 22, 2010

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J. Roberts "JR" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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Just purchased Quickbooks for Mac program and wanted a reference book to assist in the learning curve, so I purchased "The Missing Manual".

The one issue I have is the book as featured on Amazon does not indicate it only covers Quickbooks for Windows. The book I received has a different cover, one that has an oval orange colored graphic to the left of the dog's tail stating "Covers QuickBooks for Windows". On page 4 of the book it states "Warning: QuickBooks for Mac differs significantly from the Windows version, and unfortunately you won't find help with that version of the program in this book."

It would be nice to know that before I invested in the book. I suppose I will get some benefit from the book in terms of concepts, but I will still have to figure out how to use the Mac version on my own.

I cannot understand why Mac users are constantly short changed by companies that cobble a Mac version together and then not support it with quality manuals. Even the "official" QuickBooks manual from Intuit states it only covers QuickBooks Pro.