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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