Contractor's Guide to Quickbooks Pro 99,9781572180789

Contractor's Guide to Quickbooks Pro 99

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781572180789
ISBN10: 1572180781
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): Craftsman Book Co
List Price: $42.00

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Table of Contents

Introduction 5(12)
Why You Need This Book 5(1)
Installing the CD 6(2)
What You Can Expect from This Book 8(1)
How to Use the Software on the CD 9(2)
About the Authors 11(1)
Why QuickBooks Pro? 12(5)
1 Setting Up Your QuickBooks Pro Company
17(18)
Getting Started
18(1)
Begin with Our Company File
19(3)
Upgrade to QuickBooks Pro Version 99
22(2)
Convert from Quicken to QuickBooks Pro
24(5)
Create a New QuickBooks Pro Company
29(6)
2 How to Set QuickBooks Pro Preferences
35(20)
General Preferences
35(1)
Accounting Preferences
36(2)
Checking Preferences
38(1)
Finance Charge Preferences
39(1)
Iconbar Preferences
40(2)
Jobs and Estimates Preferences
42(1)
Menu Preferences
43(1)
Payroll and Employees Preferences
44(2)
Purchases and Vendors Preferences
46(1)
Reminders Preferences
46(1)
Reports and Graphs Preferences
47(1)
Sales and Customers Preferences
48(2)
Sales Tax Preferences
50(1)
Tax: 1099 Preferences
51(1)
Time Tracking Preferences
52(3)
3 Chart of Accounts
55(8)
The Chart of Accounts
55(2)
How to Use the Sample Chart of Accounts
57(3)
How to Charge, Add to, and Print Your Chart of Accounts
60(3)
4 Items
63(10)
Entering Items for a Non-Inventory Based Business
64(2)
Entering Items for an Inventory Based Business
66(2)
Creating a Group of Items
68(2)
Entering Non-Job Related Items
70(3)
5 Payroll Items
73(20)
Using Payroll Items to Track Workers' Comp Costs
73(8)
Using Payroll Items If You Don't Track Workers' Comp
81(4)
Including Sole Proprietor and Partners' Time Costs in Job Costs
85(8)
6 Classes
93(4)
Using Classes to Track Cost Categories
93(1)
Now to Create a Class
94(3)
7 Customers and Jobs
97(6)
How to Set Up a Customer
97(3)
Adding a Job for a Customer
100(2)
Exporting or Printing Your Customer List
102(1)
8 Vendors and Subcontractors
103(6)
Setting Up 1099 Vendors
103(4)
Setting Up a Non-1099 Vendor
107(2)
9 Employees
109(6)
Setting Up Your Employee List
109(6)
10 Opening Balances
115(6)
Entering Opening Balances in the General Ledger
115(1)
Entering Opening Balances in the Chart of Accounts
116(1)
Entering Invoices for Accounts Receivable
117(1)
Entering Bills for Accounts Payable
118(3)
11 Organizing Work Flow
121(8)
Setting Up Your Office Files
122(3)
Organizing Your Payroll
125(1)
Keeping Office Paperwork Current
125(4)
12 Estimating
129(10)
QuickBooks Pro vs QuickBooks
129(1)
Something for Everyone
130(2)
Using a Summary Estimate You Make Outside of QuickBooks Pro
132(2)
Customizing the Estimate Form
134(1)
Memorizing an Estimate
135(4)
13 Receivables
139(20)
Three Ways to Invoice a Customer
140(7)
Change Orders
147(2)
How to Handle Retainage
149(4)
Recording a Payment You've Received
153(1)
Recording a Deposit
154(1)
Recording a Job Deposit
155(4)
14 Payables
159(12)
Creating and Using Purchase Orders
160(1)
Entering a Bill for Committed Costs
161(2)
Entering Bills Without Purchase Orders
163(2)
Selecting Bills for Payment
165(1)
Printing Checks
166(1)
Payables & Vendor Workers' Comp Reports
167(4)
15 Payroll
171(12)
Entering a Timesheet
171(2)
Processing Employee Payroll
173(5)
Allocating Sole Proprietor or Partner's Time to a Job
178(5)
16 Using QuickBooks Pro on a Cash Basis
183(8)
How to Record a Check
184(3)
How to Record a Deposit
187(1)
Checking Your Transactions with the QuickBooks Pro Register
188(3)
17 Reports
191(30)
How to Customize and Filter Reports
191(3)
Using Our Memorized Reports
194(17)
Using Project Reports
211(10)
18 End of Month and End of Year Procedures
221(14)
End of the Month Procedures
221(7)
Reading and Understanding Your Financial Reports
228(2)
End of Year Procedures
230(5)
19 Real Estate Development
235(24)
New Accounts
235(1)
Setting Up a Development Job
236(1)
Using Items to Track Construction Costs as WIP
237(2)
Land Purchase Transactions
239(4)
Loan Transactions
243(9)
Entering a Construction Draw
252(2)
Recording the Sale of a Property
254(3)
Conclusion
257(2)
Appendix A Estimating with QuickBooks Pro 259(14)
Creating an Estimate in QuickBooks Pro 261(7)
Turning an Estimate into an Invoice 268(5)
Appendix B Job Cost Tracking and Importing Estimates 273(26)
What Is Job Cost Tracking? 273(5)
Estimating with National Estimator 278(12)
Converting Estimates with Job Cost Wizard 290(4)
Job Cost Tracking with QuickBooks 294(5)
Index 299

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