Get your small business rolling with great ideas, exceptional organization skills, unique products or services — and a trusted, accessible, accounting system like QuickBooks. This friendly book shows you how to use this popular business accounting program to clearly understand your finances and run your business with ease.

• Start here — discover what you need to do to be ready for QuickBooks, set up the software, reel in the dough, and pay the bills

• Get it together — learn to enter data, create professional-looking invoices, and record and print sales receipts

• Narrow it down — keep tabs on who needs to get paid and who owes money

• Monitoring made easy — create financial reports and track every dollar coming in and going out

• Populate QuickBooks — enter information about your products, employees, customers, and vendors into lists

• Satisfy the IRS — use QuickBooks to maintain your accounting records to comply with tax laws

Open the book and find:

• Steps to setting up and succeeding with QuickBooks

• Ways to customize invoices and memos

• How to track accounts receivable and payable

• Instructions for recording and printing a sales receipt

• Advice for tracking vehicle mileage and paying sales tax

• Tips for small business owners

Learn to:

• Organize financial information for your business

• Create invoices and credit memos

• Prepare a sales receipt and record customer payments

• Generate financial reports