Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Edition 12.0 is an accounting software that is both user-friendly and sophisticated. The interface is not only visual and intuitive, but also feature-rich for mid-size businesses, as well as complex, growing small businesses.
Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Edition 12.0 for Experts is a cookbook with specific recipes for time-saving shortcuts, valuable customized reports, and surprising ways to use this accounting software to support decision-making in your small or medium-sized business.
With Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Edition 12.0 Cookbook for Experts, you can choose a topic of value, and learn specific and practical techniques usable in your own QuickBooks file or in a sample file.
You will:
Become agile with keyboard shortcuts and time-saving techniques, which are most valuable to practitioners
Be a hero with troubleshooting tips and error-finding methods
Learn the latest features available in this edition, whether you're upgrading from Premier, or from a prior version of Enterprise edition
Learn new techniques for achieving standard and unconventional results with QuickBooks
Chapter 1, Special Capabilities of the Enterprise Edition. You will gain access to often-overlooked features and capabilities not available in other versions of QuickBooks, including user permissions and ODBC-based reports.
Chapter 2, Customizing the Interface. You will create a more comfortable QuickBooks environment for your working style by eliminating interruptions to the thought process and making the most relevant information more accessible, thereby speeding up daily processes and accelerating results.
Chapter 3, Items. You will use items strategically to accelerate workflow, reduce errors, increase accuracy of your accounting records, and extract critical accounting information from your QuickBooks files.
Chapter 4, Special Tools. You will smoothly navigate through linked transactions, quickly views the General Ledger effect of a transaction, and efficiently locates transactions and other relevant information.
Chapter 5, Customizing Reports. You will create meaningful reports beyond those which are readily available in the QuickBooks Report Center. You will learn to adeptly preserve and organize highly customized reports.
Chapter 6, Memorized Transactions. You will eliminate and redude the data entry time, and increase the accuracy of repetitive transactions. You will learn how to keep these shortcuts organized and accessible.
Chapter 7, Customer and Vendor Relations. You will utilize non-accounting information to manage relationships with customers and vendors. These recipes include communication, management tools, and customizations of customer and vendor records.
Chapter 8, Troubleshooting. You will examine a number of accounting errors that are common in QuickBooks files, and enables you to be powerful and efficient in resolving them.
Chapter 9, Keyboard Shortcuts. You will dramatically increase the speed of those QuickBooks tasks that are most important and common to you. Use the relevant shortcuts included in these recipes, but transfer the underlying techniques to other areas of QuickBooks to suit your working style.
Chapter 10, Integration with Excel. You will use advanced integration features with Microsoft Excel, including preparing combined reports from multiple QuickBooks files, setting up reports for optimal analysis once exported into Excel, and moving information from Excel into QuickBooks.
Chapter 11, Supervisory Tools. As a supervisor or reviewer, you will locate and address incorrect entries and inconsistencies in the accounting records by using the latest tools, as well as by using old tools in new ways.
Chapter 12, New for the 12.0 Edition. You will gain access to the features and capabilities that were not available in previous versions of the QuickBooks Enterprise edition.
To run the examples in the book the following software will be required:
QuickBooks: Enterprise edition
Most of the recipes in the book are also useful for the Pro or Premier versions. Furthermore, most of the recipes in the book are useful for many editions prior to the 12.0 edition.
Most of the recipes are useful for any industry edition, and a few are available only in the Accountant edition. These are mentioned specifically in the book.
Excel: Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010
This book is written for CPAs, CAs, consultants, CFOs, controllers, managers, or bookkeepers with extensive experience with QuickBooks. Prior experience with the Enterprise edition, however, is not required. You should have a thorough understanding of accounting procedures and a mastery of the basics of the QuickBooks environment.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: "Manage product mix and pricing using the Sales by Item Summary option as follows:."
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Instead of clicking on New, as you did when adding new users, click on the Role List tab."
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