Quickbooks: A Beginner's Guide to Bookkeeping and Accounting for Small Businesses Paperback – April 28, 2019

Author Michael Kane provides a much-needed adjunct to the owners of small businesses – a fine introduction to the incorporation of the QuickBooks software. As he explains, ‘Prior to the 1980s, most bookkeeping was done by hand, using ledgers, notebooks and other manual concepts. With the invention of a more affordable computer, word processor concepts where you could create spreadsheets became the norm. One company decided to go further and create a program that would handle bookkeeping tasks and be useful to accountants. The company, Intuit, is behind QuickBooks. QuickBooks can be added when you start a business, to an existing business, or when you decide to switch from a different accounting and bookkeeping software. You might have used Quicken, Money, or something else that exists, so learning how to use QuickBooks and who it is meant for is going to help you decide if you want to use the program.’And with that bit of background for those of us who are not familiar with QuickBooks, Michael offers excellent and easy to follow instructions on how the software works, how to use it and for what tasks it is meant to address, along with practical tips for adjusting to the use of this software. The history of accounting adds a fine sense of timeliness, bringing us up to date with accounting in general, and the evolution of QuickBooks from its founding in 1983 to the more user-friendly 1992 version.Adding color photographs to the presentation somehow makes learning the software more immediately accessible. Tips on implementing the software to improve management of budgets, payroll, sales tax, financial reports, fixed assets and vehicle information, and other tasks are explained well. Michael Kane makes the ‘busy-ness’ of business more efficient with this excellent introduction to QuickBooks. Grady Harp, September 19

This book gives a general overview of QuickBooks but it is not enough to really understand the program and start using it. QuickBooks is complicated, counterintuitive, and different from regular double-entry accounting using ledger accounts.The program apparently tries to simplify accounting with various shortcuts but these shortcuts make everything more complicated as they use a different logic from regular accounting. I was hoping to find a book that was not so complicated that it would take forever to decipher but that would give a general overview of how QuickBooks works. This book did not accomplish that.

Quickbooks: A Beginner's Guide to Bookkeeping and Accounting for Small Businesses by M. Kane is a fantastic and easy to read guide that will help any business owner, whether it's a big or small business in the process of running their business. This book is a great introduction to learn how to work with this popular program. Whether your business is old or a newer one, you are sure to benefit by using this guide. It disseminates information in such a way that you can easily learn how to create accounts and manage vendors, take care of payroll taxes and much more. This book is a required read if you are trying to learn everything about Quickbooks and use it in your business. Highly recommend.

QuickBooks is a useful software to have especially if you have your own business. I recommend reading a guide like this one.

Step-by-step guide on how to use QuickBooks. This book goes into details about how to start using it.

not helpful enough for a complete beginner. Need a better step-by-step learning guide for "online"

Very generic general direction on specific areas of the software teaching nothing about accounting.

An excellent price and gives a general education in Quickbooks. Satisfied.

The book does it's job - it contains all relevant and necessary information that anyone who does not have any idea of how QuickBooks works can easily upload invoices and manages simple reports. I found out few missing parts such as exporting data etc but to sum up good book!

Just what I was looking for