Loredana Stroup & Stephen L. Nelson 
QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies, UK Edition 

Learn to use the UK’s number one small business accounting
software!



A reliable accounting system is integral to the success of any
small business and Quick Books is the finance program you need to
handle your financial and business management tasks efficiently.
This eagerly awaited book shows you how to use this popular
software to build a budget, process payroll, create invoices,
manage inventory, balance accounts, and much more–all without
having to hire expensive financial professionals.

After discovering the best way to install and setup Quick Books,
the authors show you how to use Quick Books to maintain your
accounting records to comply with tax laws, enter data, keep track
of your cheque book and credit card accounts, and produce common
financial reports that track every penny coming in and going
out.

* Shares proven secrets for building a solid budget

* Details how to track accounts receivable and payable

* Provides clear steps for keeping track of inventory as you
purchase and sell items

* Highlights ways to track who needs to get paid, who owes money,
and what needs to get done

Quick Books ‘X’ For Dummies, UK Edition addresses the
unique needs of UK businesses and helps you keep your business in
the black.

Зміст

Introduction 1

Part I: Quickly into Quick Books 7

Chapter 1: Quick Books: The Heart of Your Business 9

Chapter 2: Answering Mr Wizard 17

Chapter 3: Populating Quick Books Lists 37

Part II: Daily Entry Tasks 85

Chapter 4: Creating Invoices and Credit Notes 87

Chapter 5: Collecting Your Just Rewards 113

Chapter 6: Paying the Bills 137

Chapter 7: Stock Magic 163

Chapter 8: Working with Your Banking Register 181

Chapter 9: Paying with Plastic 197

Chapter 10: Working with Multicurrency 207

Part III: Stuff You Do from Time to Time 229

Chapter 11: Managing VAT 231

Chapter 12: Payroll 249

Chapter 13: Building the Perfect Budget 275

Part IV: Housekeeping Chores 283

Chapter 14: The Balancing Act 285

Chapter 15: Reporting on the State of Affairs 295

Chapter 16: Job Estimating, Billing, and Tracking 309

Chapter 17: File Management Tips 319

Part V: The Part of Tens 329

Chapter 18: Tips for Handling (Almost) Ten Tricky Situations
331

Chapter 19: (Almost) Ten Secret Business Formulas 341

Part VI: Appendixes 357

Appendix A: Installing Quick Books in Ten Easy Steps 359

Appendix B: If Numbers Are Your Friends 363

Appendix C: Sharing Quick Books Files 381

Appendix D: Printing Cheques 389

Index 395

Про автора

Stephen L. Nelson, CPA, MBA (finance), MS (taxation), has a
simple purpose in life: He wants to help you (and people like you)
manage your business finances by using computers. Oh, sure, this
personal mandate won’t win him a Nobel Prize or anything, but it’s
his own little contribution to the world.

Steve’s experiences mesh nicely with his special purpose. A CPA in
Redmond, Washington, his past small business experience includes a
stint as an adjunct professor of taxation (S corporations and
limited liability companies) at Golden Gate University graduate tax
school and a few years working as a senior consultant and CPA with
Arthur Andersen & Co. (er, yeah, that Arthur Andersen
— but, hey, it was nearly 30 years ago). Steve, whose books
have sold more than 4 million copies in English and have been
translated into 11 other languages, is also the bestselling author
of Quicken 2012 For Dummies.

Loredana Stroup, DPhil (Oxon), MBA, has over a decade of
experience working with businesses in various capacities including
management consulting, software training, and technology systems
design and integration. Her passion is to help people run their
businesses more efficiently and effectively, especially through the
use of proven digital technologies. She founded and runs Alta
Training Limited which specialises in Quick Books setups, training,
and troubleshooting. Intuit, the maker of Quick Books, has
recognised her expertise and tapped it in the development, testing
and launching of Quick Books (UK), and also in engaging her to write
training materials and deliver training programmes across the
country.