Description
Introduction 1 Book 1: An Accounting Primer 7 Chapter 1: Principles of Accounting 9 Chapter 2: Double-Entry Bookkeeping 29 Chapter 3: Special Accounting Problems 49 Book 2: Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks 71 Chapter 1: Setting Up QuickBooks 73 Chapter 2: Loading the Master File Lists 93 Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning QuickBooks 117 Book 3: Bookkeeping Chores 149 Chapter 1: Invoicing Customers 151 Chapter 2: Paying Vendors 185 Chapter 3: Tracking Inventory and Items 205 Chapter 4: Managing Cash and Bank Accounts 235 Chapter 5: Paying Employees 267 Book 4: Accounting Chores 279 Chapter 1: For Accountants Only 281 Chapter 2: Preparing Financial Statements and Reports 297 Chapter 3: Preparing a Budget 319 Chapter 4: Using Activity-Based Costing 331 Chapter 5: Setting Up Project and Job Costing Systems 347 Book 5: Financial Management 359 Chapter 1: Ratio Analysis 361 Chapter 2: Economic Value Added Analysis 379 Chapter 3: Capital Budgeting in a Nutshell 393 Book 6: Business Plans 409 Chapter 1: Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis 411 Chapter 2: Creating a Business Plan Forecast 431 Chapter 3: Writing a Business Plan 469 Book 7: Care and Maintenance 483 Chapter 1: Administering QuickBooks 485 Chapter 2: Protecting Your Data 503 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting 521 Book 8: Appendixes 527 Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel 529 Appendix B: Government Web Resources for Businesses 545 Appendix C: Glossary of Accounting and Financial Terms 563 Index 593
