QuickBooks 2017 All-In-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

RIGHT NOW I ONLY USE THE PAYROLL PART AND IT WAS VERY CONVENIENT WHEN I RAN INTO PROBLEMS.

I thought this book would go into more detail in the different ways to make journal entries, setup cash accounts, make various journal entries, set up payroll, etc, This book skims Accounting with Quick Books, it is a very general instruction and the lousy QB prompts do as well as having the book. I was really looking for more depth into Quick Books more than double-entry booking. The payroll part is only 9 pages and basically repeats the on screen prompts, with no additional information. I have found QB to be very user UN-friendly, and it is very hard to undo mistake entries. I really wanted a book that helped me in that part of using QB.I think the author needs to write a book that has more "trick-of-the-trade" and hints, go-bys the help in setting up or making certain Journal entries. Why does the author have to discuss double-entry bookkeeping, as most that use QB would have more of an accounting background. For the novice there are other accounting programs that would serve them better than QB.

Everything you need in one book. I've been using quickbooks for over two months. I still pull this book out when I get hung up.

I bought this book obviously to learn how to use QuickBooks and I unfortunately learned pretty much nothing. In my opinion, if you are fairly well-versed in accounting and could if need be set up a chart of accounts on a piece of paper and track all your purchases and sales by hand (in other words, are very good at accounting), then you will probably be able to read this book and learn the program. That is because all you would be looking to learn is where are the buttons are in the program. However, to be honest, I think most people who could do perfect accounting by hand probably don't need a book to help them learn the program as they can figure it our by themselves or with a few quick (and free) online tutorials. However I think an average person who understands the concepts of accounting for a small business (keeping track of expenses and income, accounts receivable and payable etc,) but probably has not put this knowledge to use, or maybe have only been doing very basic accounting in excel or just on paper, would need a lot more instruction than this book offers. It really seems to be just a book written to help you find where stuff is, which after a little while playing with it, is not all that hard (not as intuitive as it could be, but doable.) For example, the chart of accounts is really one of the most important things to get set up in the program and if you do not do it correctly, all your numbers will be messed up and will be very hard to fix. However, it simply lists things you might want in your chart of accounts with no other information. In summary, if you are not 100% positive of your accounting skills to begin with, get a different book. I ended up paying for an online video tutorial and it was much much better. One other note, Although there is a section in the beginning on accounting, it explains such basic introductory information. If you have never heard the word accounting, you may get some useful information from it, however, if you have never heard the word accounting, you should not be using this program. You NEED to understand accounting, and understand it well, in order to use this program. There is not nearly enough information provided in that section to teach you everything you need to know in order to keep your own books for a small business.

Thanks for getting it here in one piece .. It has helped me a lot .

Not as helpful as I thought it would be.

Arrived on time as indicated; more complicated than I thought it might be.

It is cool. Does the trick. i just don't like being called a dummy

Simply because this particular book applies to American accounts. It appears to cover everything but I don't need to set up the system just need to know how to work with system that is already set up. I don't think that it is a 'dummy' version because it goes into a lot of depth but maybe that's just me.

All I needed in a Quickbooks assist!!! Excellent book and highly recommended!

usa only

No good for what I needed. Waste of time