[...]... of QuickBooks this book works for, what’s in the reference, what it assumes about your existing skills, and about the conventions used in the reference About This Book QuickBooks comes in several different flavors, including QuickBooks Simple Start, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions This reference talks about QuickBooks 2007 Premier, which is a superset of QuickBooks. .. this book is written for QuickBooks Premier, if you’re using QuickBooks Pro or QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, don’t worry You’re just fine with this book And don’t freak out if you’re using some version of QuickBooks that’s very similar to QuickBooks 2007, such as QuickBooks 2006 or QuickBooks 2008 Although this reference is about QuickBooks Pro 2007, it also works just fine for the 2005, 2006, and... General Preferences 118 Controlling Integrated Applications 119 Controlling Inventory 120 xiv QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Controlling How Jobs and Estimates Work .121 Controlling How Payroll Works 122 Telling QuickBooks How Reminders Should Work 123 Specifying Reports & Graphs Preferences 124 Setting Sales & Customers Preferences... with QuickBooks? 373 Book VI: Business Plans 375 Chapter 1: Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis 377 How Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis Works 378 Calculating Breakeven Points .379 Using Real QuickBooks Data for Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis .381 Sales revenue 382 Gross margin percentage 382 Fixed costs 383 The Downside of the Profit-Volume-Cost... 515 xxii QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Appendix B: Government Web Resources for Businesses 517 Bureau of Economic Analysis .517 Information available at the BEA Web site 518 Downloading a BEA publication .519 Uncompressing a BEA publication 519 Using the BEA publication .520 Bureau of Labor Statistics 520 Information available... Accounting 27 Chapter 2: Double-Entry Bookkeeping 29 The Fiddle-Faddle Method of Accounting 30 How Double-Entry Bookkeeping Works 32 The accounting model 33 Talking mechanics 35 xii QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Almost a Real-Life Example 38 Rent expense .39 Wages expense 39 Supplies expense... 313 After-the-fact classifications .313 Producing ABC reports 314 Chapter 5: Setting Up Project and Job Costing Systems 315 Setting Up a QuickBooks Job 315 Tracking Job or Project Costs 318 Job Cost Reporting 321 Using Job Estimates .322 Progress Billing 324 xviii QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Book V:... Workbook 431 Changing the number of periods 432 Ratio analysis on existing financial statements 432 Calculating taxes for a current net loss before taxes 432 Combining this workbook with other workbooks 433 xx QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Chapter 3: Writing a Business Plan 435 What the Term Business Plan Means 435 A Few Words... of a subset of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions If you’re using QuickBooks Simple Start — which is the simplest, most bare bones version of QuickBooks — you should not use this book Sorry Fortunately, I have a solution of sorts for you You might want to get another book I’ve written, QuickBooks Simple Start For Dummies (Wiley Publishing, Inc.) That book covers the Simple Start version of QuickBooks in... xvi QuickBooks 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Reviewing the Other Banking Commands .241 Order Checks & Envelopes command .241 Enter Credit Card Charges command 241 Online Banking command 243 Online Banking Center command 244 Loan Manager .244 Other Names list .244 Chapter 5: Paying Employees 245 Setting Up Do-It-Yourself . CPA QuickBooks ® 2007 ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_085516 ffirs.qxp 12/6/06 12:43 AM Page iii QuickBooks ® 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies ® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken,. Author Stephen L. Nelson is a CPA in Redmond, Washington. He provides account- ing, business advisory, and tax planning and preparation services to small businesses such as manufacturers, retailers,. He s also the bestselling author of books about how to use computers to manage one s per- sonal and business finances. In fact, Nelson s 100-plus books have sold more than 4,000,000 copies in