QuickBooks(R) 2003: The Official Guide

by Kathy Ivens

Book Overview

This guide teaches how to set up and use the various components of QuickBooks 2003 to manage virtually every area of your finances. Filled with details and smart tips for keeping your business in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007222679X
• ISBN13: 9780072226799
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 593 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Buy this one first

I bought this book after buying another book that wasn't very helpful. I should have bought this one first and saved myself time and aggravation.This book does the best job of explaining Quickbooks and how it works, and what it does, and why it does it that way, and how to make it do things a different way if what you want to track in your bookkeeping is a little different.The author not only knows Quickbooks, she knows accounting, and best of all, she understands how small businesses work. She knows that we don't all follow the same formula. By the time you finish reading a couple of sets of instructions in this book, you understand how much more flexible Quickbooks is than you thought (or than the authors of other books understand).Buy this book and you'll have exactly the books and reports you need. Mrs. Ivens is an amazing writer.

A life saver

The best thing about this book is that it saves you money on accountant fees. The writer explains the bookkeeping processes so well that you don't have to keep asking your accountant to set up the way transactions are handled, you can figure it out for yourself (and it's so clearly explained, you'll be right).The next best thing about the book is all the tricks to get the software to do things exactly the way you need it to. If you're not a bookkeeper (and most small business owners aren't), some things aren't self-explanatory, such as how do I handle sales tax in more than one state. Not only does this book show you how to set up your books to handle these problems, but the writer walks you through the steps, explaining why you do it the way you do it.This is a bookkeeping education in addition to learning the ins and outs of Quickbooks.

Goes beyond all other similar books

The best thing about this book is all the great information that isn't available from QuickBooks -either the help files or the support site. Miss Ivens shows you how to work around the QuickBooks limitations, how to do things the help files say aren't supported in Quickbooks, and even gives realworld examples to make it easy to do the same things on your own books.Her writing is clear as crystal and very conversational, so it's a pleasure to read the book. My accountant loved the fact that she explained what QuickBooks is doing in the background with the General Ledger when you create transactions. He went out and bought himself a copy, and is now recommending it to all his clients.This book, filled with great tricks to get more out of Quickbooks, is also a good basic primer on understanding bookkeeping. This is the only book you need if you're running a business with Quickbooks - you can throw away the books that came with the software.

A perfect and indispensible resource

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.