quickbooks all-in-one desk reference for dummies, 2nd edition (2005)

[...]... 127 Controlling the Purchasing & Vendors Preferences 129 xiv QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition Telling QuickBooks How Reminders Should Work 130 Specifying Reports & Graphs Preferences 131 Setting Sales & Customers Preferences 134 Specifying How Sales Are Taxed .135 Setting the Send Forms Preferences 136 Fine-Tuning the Service Connection... QuickBooks, QuickBooks Basic, or the more fully featured version of QuickBooks, QuickBooks Premier And don’t freak out if you’re using some version of QuickBooks that’s very similar to QuickBooks 2005, such as QuickBooks 2003, QuickBooks 2004, or QuickBooks 2006 All the versions of QuickBooks work in roughly the same way Note, too, that specialty versions of QuickBooks like QuickBooks Accountants Edition. .. versions of QuickBooks this book works for, what’s in the reference, what it assumes about your existing skills, and about the conventions used in the reference About This Book QuickBooks comes in several different flavors, including QuickBooks Basic, QuickBooks Pro, and QuickBooks Premier This reference talks about QuickBooks 2005 Pro, which is a superset of QuickBooks Basic and a subset of QuickBooks. .. 536 xxii QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition Appendix B: Government Web Resources for Businesses 537 Bureau of Economic Analysis 537 Information available at the BEA Web site .538 Downloading a BEA publication 539 Uncompressing a BEA publication 540 Using the BEA publication .540 Bureau of Labor Statistics 541 Information available... publishes new editions of these products every year But you can use this book for any recent version of QuickBooks Basic, QuickBooks Pro, or QuickBooks Premier 2 How to Use This Book How to Use This Book This reference combines eight short books, including a book about accounting, one about setting up the QuickBooks system, one for bookkeepers using QuickBooks, one for accountants and managers using QuickBooks, ... System 325 How QuickBooks Supports ABC .326 Turning on Class Tracking 327 Using Classes for ABC 328 Setting up your classes 328 Classifying revenue amounts 329 Classifying expense amounts 329 After-the-fact classifications .330 Producing ABC reports 331 xviii QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition Chapter 5: Setting... 439 Inventory Investments 443 Financial Ratios Table 446 xx QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition Customizing the Starter Workbook 450 Changing the number of periods 451 Ratio analysis on existing financial statements 451 Calculating taxes for a current net loss before taxes 451 Combining this workbook with other workbooks 452 Chapter 3:... 29 The Fiddle-Faddle Method of Accounting 30 How Double-Entry Bookkeeping Works 32 The accounting model 33 Talking mechanics 35 xii QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition Almost a Real-Life Example 38 Rent expense .38 Wages expense 39 Supplies expense 39 Recording sales revenue 39 Recording... Transferring Money between Bank Accounts 237 Working with the Register 239 Recording register transactions 239 Using Register window commands and buttons 242 xvi QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition Using Edit Menu Commands .245 Reconciling the Bank Account 250 Reviewing the Other Banking Commands .253 Banking Navigator command 253 Order... Accountants Edition and QuickBooks Contractors version also work almost identically to QuickBooks Pro If you see some whistle or bell that you really want to use but that isn’t available in your version of QuickBooks, you’ll know that you should upgrade to the Pro or Premier version of QuickBooks Although this reference is about QuickBooks Pro 2005, it also works just fine for the 2001, 2002, and probably . CPA QuickBooks ® ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION 01_576623 ffirs.qxd 12/22/04 7:24 PM Page iii 01_576623 ffirs.qxd 12/22/04 7:24 PM Page ii QuickBooks ® ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND. the Purchasing & Vendors Preferences 129 02_576623 ftoc.qxd 12/22/04 7:24 PM Page xiii QuickBooks All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition xiv Telling QuickBooks How Reminders Should. CPA QuickBooks ® ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION 01_576623 ffirs.qxd 12/22/04 7:24 PM Page iii QuickBooks ® All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies ® , 2nd Edition Published by Wiley Publishing,