Product Description

If you’ve considered using financial software to handle your personal finances, Quicken 2008 just might be the tool you’ve been looking for. Quicken is America’s top-selling personal finance software. It can help you manage the money for both your household and your small business, while Quicken 2008 For Dummies can help you manage Quicken.

With the number of individual bankruptcies at an alarming level, personal financial management needs to be a priority for each of us. You don’t have to be an accounting wizard to handle your personal finances on a PC, especially with the friendly, plain-English explanations in Quicken 2008 For Dummies! Written by a CPA who provides consulting services on accounting and tax planning to small businesses, Quicken 2008 For Dummies shows you how to:

• Install Quicken and run Express Setup
• Handle your checkbook, pay bills, and track your income
• Monitor and assess your investments
• Track loans and credit card activity
• Understand how interest compounds and what it costs when you borrow, as well as how it adds up when you invest
• Create charts and reports to show how you’re doing
• Use Quicken to handle your small business finances
• Prepare payroll and track accounts receivable and payable

Quicken 2008 For Dummies may not make managing your finances exactly fun, but it’s guaranteed to make the job easier.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103342 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 358 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470174739
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Covers Premier, Deluxe, and Basic editions of Quicken

Manage bills, track credit card transactions, and make investments pay off

Did you know that personal bankruptcies are at an all-time high? Quick —get a handle on money management before you become a statistic! This book makes it easy, with step-by-step directions for balancing your checkbook, paying bills, tracking income, following your investments, understanding interest, and much more, all with Quicken 2008.

• Install Quicken and run Express Setup

• Plan and manage your investments

• Create charts and reports

• Track deductions and plan for tax time

• Manage payroll for your small business

About the Author
Stephen L. Nelson is a CPA in Redmond, Washington. Nelson has an undergraduate degree in accounting, a Master of Business Administration degree in finance, and a Master of Science degree in taxation. He’s spent more than two decades helping individuals and businesses manage their finances — usually, in part, by better use of computer systems such as Quicken. More recently, he’s worked as a sole proprietor. When he wasn’t doing CPA-type work, he served as controller of a small, 50-person computer software company, and also as a book publisher.
As corny as it sounds, Steve truly enjoys writing books that make using personal computers easier and more fun. In fact, a substantiated rumor that appeared first in The Wall Street Journal says Steve has written more than 150 computer books.
Steve is the best-selling author on the Quicken product. In fact, Wiley recently tallied up Steve’s Quicken For Dummies sales — and lo and behold, if Wiley hasn’t printed more than one million copies!

Customer Reviews

Helps get you started
The Dummies books are designed to get people started using the 5% of any application most people use, most effectively. This book continues in that tradition. For previous Quicken users, it may be a bit confusing, but this version of Quicken has some changes that are a bit confusing (in my unofficial poll of 26 Quicken 2005/2006/2007 users who upgraded). Worth having on the shelf for quick questions.

quick guide to answer a question
this is a nice book to answer a specific question and shows the ease of using quickbooks

only the best
the book is very informative and straight forward, he walks you thru each step and is there when you have a question.