QuickBooks 2006 Bible or Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

QuickBooks 2006 Bible

Author: Jill Gilbert Welytok

Get a better handle on profits, losses, and expenses in your business by setting up and maintaining your books properly in the first place. The help you need is in this comprehensive guide to the latest release of QuickBooks 2006 accounting software. Whether you do your own books or just want to stay organized for a smooth hand-off to a CPA, this informative book has the expert coverage you need. Set up a QuickBook Chart of Accounts, record sales, analyze profitability-it's all here and more in a friendly format for novices and accounting professionals alike.

Inside, you'll find complete coverage of QuickBooks 2006
* Establish a QuickBooks business
* Choose the correct legal entity and avoid tax penalties
* Master generally accepted accounting practices
* Customize for your business type with Chart of Accounts
* Analyze your company's profitability and financial strength
* Use timesavers such as Quick Add, Quick Recall, and Quick Math
* Take inventory and write purchase orders
* Build budgets, handle payroll, and print checks
* Tailor your sales reports in several different formats
* Stay in compliance with the bonus appendix on Sarbanes-Oxley

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Quick insights and program overview	3
Ch. 2	Twenty minutes to navigating QuickBooks	23
Ch. 3	Choosing the correct legal entity and avoiding tax penalties	39
Ch. 4	Accounting basics for QuickBooks companies	53
Ch. 5	Setting up your QuickBooks company	73
Ch. 6	Customizing your chart of accounts	87
Ch. 7	Entering historical transactions and data	103
Ch. 8	Using lists	109
Ch. 9	Working with customers and jobs	123
Ch. 10	Using items to designate products and pricing	149
Ch. 11	Printer settings and options	169
Ch. 12	Setting QuickBooks preferences	181
Ch. 13	Data management and security	195
Ch. 14	Recording sales transactions and creating sales forms	219
Ch. 15	Customizing sales forms	245
Ch. 16	Accounts receivables and deposits	265
Ch. 17	Purchase orders and accounts payable	293
Ch. 18	Working with inventory	313
Ch. 19	Reviewing registers and reconciling accounts	333
Ch. 20	QuickBooks Pro : estimates and time tracking	345
Ch. 21	Payroll taxes and items	367
Ch. 22	Maintaining employee information and keeping your employee list up-to-date	391
Ch. 23	Sales taxes	409
Ch. 24	Tax forms and tax payments	423
Ch. 25	Check writing and expense recording	437
Ch. 26	Online banking and bill payment	453
Ch. 27	Recording credit card transactions	463
Ch. 28	Analyzing your company's profitability and financial strength	475
Ch. 29	Accounting for fixed assets and other advanced balance sheet topics	495
Ch. 30	Reports and graphs	507
Ch. 31	Budgets	533
Ch. 32	Dealing with the IRS	541
Ch. 33	Creating binding contracts with QuickBooks	555
App. A	Your rights as a taxpayer	567
App. B	How to get help with unresolved tax problems	571
App. C	Protecting taxpayers' rights	585
App. D	The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 : key points for small businesses	589

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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

Author: Douglas R Hofstadter

Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind.

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Hofstadter (cognitive science, computer science, Indiana U.) challenges conventional computer simulations of reasoning. He discusses the importance of how concepts give rise to generalizations and analogies, and asserts that mental activities are fundamentally parallel. He illustrates these principles with computer models for solving anagram, analogy, and number puzzles. Includes b&w diagrams. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)