Quickbooks(R) 2003: The Official Guide [Paperback]

Kathy Ivens (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007222679X | ISBN-13: 978-0072226799 | Publication Date: November 13, 2002 | Edition: 1

Manage your small business easily and effectively with the ONLY Intuit-authorized guide to QuickBooks! Now you can take charge of your small business finances and learn to use the many helpful and innovative elements of this powerful software with the official guide to QuickBooks 2003.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

For businesspeople who can't seem to justify a dedicated accounting department, QuickBooks 2000 can provide the needed recordkeeping and reporting capabilities. QuickBooks 2000: The Official Guide, the latest official QuickBooks book from respected author Kathy Ivens, decodes the QuickBooks (and QuickBooks Pro) interfaces and shows you how to fit these popular accounting packages into your way of doing business.

Strangely, the Customer Center receives no mention, but Ivens covers practically everything else, making it easy for you to flip right to a discussion of whatever is confusing you at the moment. You'll usually find the discussion organized around standard business procedures rather than the software's design and terminology.

Ivens is at her best when she explains how to reconcile the inflexibilities of QuickBooks with the realities of business: for example, how to deal with a customer who pays after 20 days but takes the three percent discount that was supposed to be good for only 10 days. (QuickBooks wants to stick the customer with the remaining three percent, but Ivens shows how to account for your own generosity.) She also explains such mysteries as how to create a template that yields warehouse pick lists along with invoices, and how to properly collect sales tax from customers in multiple states. Overall, this is a highly practical guide to using QuickBooks 2000 as a management tool for small and medium-size businesses. --David Wall

Topics covered: Intuit QuickBooks 2000 and QuickBooks Pro 2000 as accounting and management tools. This book documents these features of the programs completely, touching on initial setup before explaining payables, receivables, payroll, taxes, inventory, time tracking, and paper forms. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Covers QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro

Manage your small business with the ONLY Intuit-authorized guide to QuickBooks!

Get started fast with the only Intuit-authorized guide to QuickBooks 2003. Discover all the new updates to the latest version of this invaluable bookkeeping software, and track customers, vendors, and inventory easily. Generate all the reports you need to manage your business. Understand the powerful features, and learn innovative workarounds for special circumstances. Learn to run your business efficiently and easily--even if you're a new business owner with no accounting experience--with the comprehensive coverage and easy-to-understand, expert advice in QuickBooks 2003: The Official Guide.

Inside, learn how to:

• Customize QuickBooks to match your own preferences
• Reconcile bank accounts easily and quickly
• Create reports that tell you exactly what you need to know
• Use job costing to track time and material
• Improve collections
• Manage employees
• Make tax preparation a breeze
• Streamline your bookkeeping tasks

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Product Details

• Paperback: 593 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 13, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007222679X
• ISBN-13: 978-0072226799
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,772,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kathy Ivens is the author of more than 50 computer books. She is a senior contributing editor forWindows IT Pro Magazine.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of All, March 18, 2000

By 

Robert Weiss (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks 2000: The Official Guide (Paperback)

I spent a long time in a bookstore reading through books on Quickbooks when I first installed the software. I knew in 1 minute this was the book I had to buy (from Amazon, it was cheaper than at the store).

Anyone counting on the other books is struggling harder with Quickbooks than those of us who were smart enough to buy this book. Kathy Ivens writes as if she knows you, and knows exactly the questions you have.

Her hints and tips about setting up the software are pure genius. She explains the bookkeeping theories behind every suggestion she makes.

This book is replete with real-life bookkeeping tasks and the best way to perform them - and why you should perform them that way. When she gives choices about doing transactions, she explains exactly what the ramifications are of each choice - so you can make decisions based on your own business, and your own bookkeeping needs.

This is a brilliant example of how to write a book about using software.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect and indispensible resource, October 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Quickbooks: The Official Guide (Paperback)

As a CPA and consultant, this is the book I tell my clients to buy. The author doesn't hesitate to discuss the inconsistencies and missing ingredients of the software, but then she provides some astonishing and useful workarounds. This book is more than a guide for using this software, it's a great reference for small business bookkeeping.

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comes up short: Rehash of much in the manual, May 12, 2000

By 

S. Sullivan "AVIAweb" (Northborough, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks 2000: The Official Guide (Paperback)

I looked this book over trying to find out:

1)How to apply paymentint with and deal with a non-intuit merchant account (to take credit cards).

No help

2) I tried to learn more about customer:jobs and how to apply a single payment from a customer across more than one job.

No help.

This book handles all the things that one can readily get from the manual that comes with quickbooks, but in a more hand-holding way. That's nice, but I'd like a bit more. The items above should be pretty common problems but they are ignored in this text.

If you are doing more than simple intro things, this book comes up short.