Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits: The Only Comprehensive Guide for Nonprofits Using QuickBooks [Paperback]

Kathy Ivens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2005

Providing information on using QuickBooks to track financial data in nonprofit organizations, this book covers all versions of QuickBooks. Management of donors, grants, and pledges, and topics such as allocating expenses to programs, handling donor restrictions, and generating the reports needed for donors and tax returns are covered in detail. In addition to easy-to-follow instructions and tons of tips and workarounds, information on using QuickBooks for fundraising is provided.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits has become heavily marked—you have written the bible on the topic."  —Jeannell King, financial manager, Pro Peninsula

About the Author

Kathy Ivens writes regularly about computer and small business topics for a variety of periodicals. She is the author of more than 50 books, including Home Networking for Dummies and Quickbooks: The Official Guide, and Running Quickbooks 2006 Premier Editions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: CPA911 PUBLISHING (December 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972066985
• ISBN-13: 978-0972066983
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,241 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

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful book for those new to nonprofit bookkeeping or Quickbooks or both, January 25, 2008

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This review is from: Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits: The Only Comprehensive Guide for Nonprofits Using QuickBooks (Paperback)

I wish I had found this book when I first transitioned from the private sector to running a non-profit organization! Coming from a media background, I was familiar with budgets, etc., but I always had a bookkeeper for the actual accounting, so I found myself having to learn fast on my feet; add to that the need to learn how non-profits differ from for profit business and I felt completely behind the eight ball at times. After the first year, I had a functional handle on it, but things were still not where they should be and the annual financial review proved that there was more to learn.

Enter *Running Quickbooks in Nonprofits*; this book taught me more in one reading than a year of muddling through it and bothering the accountant with "free" questions until he was blue in the face. Not only did I finally get a good handle on the basics of accounting for a non-profit, but I was able to finally utilize the full power of Quickbooks within its inherent non-profit limitations - even the version of Quickbooks for non-profits isn't well adapted for the purpose as it was not built from the ground up for the unique accounting needs of non-profits. With this book, you will learn how to adapt Quickbooks for you non-profit organization and make it work for you, not against you.

What makes *Running Quickbooks in Nonprofits* easy to read and understand and why it delivers is because the author is an accountant working with non-profit clients, so she can deliver real world advice that makes sense to those in the non-profit world.

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A Guide to my Book Rating System:

1 star = The wood pulp would have been better utilized as toilet paper.
2 stars = Don't bother, clean your bathroom instead.
3 stars = Wasn't a waste of time, but it was time wasted.
4 stars = Good book, but not life altering.
5 stars = This book changed my world in at least some small way.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This Book!, January 10, 2007

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Patrick L. Mccartney (Oak Harbor, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits: The Only Comprehensive Guide for Nonprofits Using QuickBooks (Paperback)

If you are going to use QuickBooks to manage your church finances, buy this book. Read it BEFORE you begin your installation. It will answer your questions. It will save you time. It will help preserve your sanity. It will make you a better person. It will help you to lose weight. Well, maybe not that last one so much... but it IS a darn good resource. Even if you've already installed and are using QuickBooks, buy it and read it.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quickbooks for NonProfits, May 18, 2007

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M. Brant - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits: The Only Comprehensive Guide for Nonprofits Using QuickBooks (Paperback)

I have used Quicken/Quickbooks for several years personally and have been very pleased with its ease of use and reporting functionality. Recently, I was confronted by a church deacon, who was questioning the appearance of some of the reports being provided to the finance committee and wanted suggestions as to how to "correctly" enter the data to get the information necessary for each "fund". They had been told repeatedly that it couldn't be done, that the program wasn't capable, etc. After reading several chapters of this book, I passed it on to the committee to review and as proof that they didn't need a more expensive program.