QuickBooks 2011 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual puts you in control: you learn not only how QuickBooks works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice along the way. QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. With QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual, you can handle QuickBooks by following clear, step-by-step instructions that help you get the job done. * Set up your QuickBooks files and preferences to fit your company * Track inventory, control spending, run a payroll, and manage income * Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end reports * Export key snapshots in the convenient new Report Center * Streamline your workflow with the new Online Banking Center * Build and monitor budgets to keep your company financially fit * Share information with your accountant quickly and easily

Author Biography

Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated with math in its practical and more esoteric forms. As an engineer and project manager, she's thorough and steadfastly attentive to detail but redeems herself by using her sick sense of humor to transform these drool-inducing subjects into entertaining reading. She writes about personal finance, investing, accounting, and project management, although she's working on what she hopes will be a best-selling crime novel with movie rights worth oodles of money. Her NAIC Stock Selection Handbook won major awards from the Society of Technical Communication and APEX Awards for Publication Excellence (but the raves she receives from beginning investors mean much more to her). Bonnie is also the author of O'Reilly's Online Investing Hacks, Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, and Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual. She writes a monthly column called 'WebWatch' for Better Investing magazine and is a regular contributor to http://www.interest.com. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats.