Contractor's Guide to Quickbooks Pro 2006,9781572181700

Contractor's Guide to Quickbooks Pro 2006

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ISBN13: 9781572181700
ISBN10: 1572181702
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-28
Publisher(s): Craftsman Book Co
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Summary

Contractor's GT Quickbooks Pro walks anyone through QuickBooks Pro's detailed set-up procedure and explains step-by-step how to create a first-rate accounting system for a construction business. It teaches in days, rather than weeks, how to use Quickbooks Pro to get a construction business organized, with simple, fast accounting procedures. On the CD included with the book there's a Quickbooks Pro file preconfigured for a construction company (drag it over onto your computer and plug in your own company's data). Also included is a complete estimating program, including a database, and a job costing program that lets you export your estimates to QuickBooks Pro for progressive billing and job cost accounting. It even includes many useful construction forms to use in estimating and accounting.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5(1)
Why You Need This Book
5(1)
What You Can Expect from This Book
6(1)
QuickBooks, QuickBooks Pro, or Premier: Contractor Edition?
7(2)
Why Should You Believe Us?
9(3)
What's on the CD?
12(1)
How Do I Use This CD?
13(4)
Setting Up Your QuickBooks Pro Company
17(16)
QuickBooks Pro Company Files
18(1)
Begin with Our Sample and Company Data Files
19(4)
Upgrade to QuickBooks Pro Version 2006
23(2)
Convert from Quicken to QuickBooks Pro
25(5)
Convert an Existing Data File to Our Setup
30(3)
How to Set QuickBooks Pro Preferences
33(22)
General Preferences
33(1)
Accounting Preferences
34(2)
Checking Preferences
36(2)
Finance Charge Preferences
38(2)
Integrated Applications Preferences
40(1)
Jobs and Estimates Preferences
41(1)
Payroll and Employees Preferences
42(1)
Purchases and Vendors Preferences
43(2)
Reminders Preferences
45(1)
Reports and Graphs Preferences
46(1)
Sales and Customers Preferences
46(2)
Sales Tax and Send Forms Preferences
48(2)
Service Connection Preferences
50(1)
Spelling Preferences
51(1)
Tax: 1099 Preferences
52(2)
Time Tracking Preferences
54(1)
Chart of Accounts
55(20)
How to Use the Sample Chart of Accounts
57(6)
Change, Add to, and Print Your Chart of Accounts
63(2)
QuickBooks Premier: Contractor Edition Features
65(1)
Loan Manager
66(9)
Items
75(10)
Entering Items for a Non-Inventory Based Business
76(2)
Entering Items for an Inventory Based Business
78(2)
Creating a Group of Items
80(1)
Entering Non-Job Related Items
81(4)
Payroll Items
85(18)
Using Payroll Items to Track Workers' Comp Costs
85(8)
Using Payroll Items if You Don't Track Workers' Comp
93(3)
Including Sole Proprietor and Partners' Time Costs in Job Costs
96(7)
Classes
103(4)
Using Classes to Track Cost Categories
103(1)
How to Create a Class
104(3)
Customers and Jobs
107(8)
How to Set Up a Customer
107(4)
Adding a Job for a Customer
111(3)
Exporting or Printing Your Customer List
114(1)
Vendors and Subcontractors
115(6)
Setting Up 1099 Vendors
115(4)
Setting Up a Non-1099 Vendor
119(2)
Employees
121(8)
Setting Up Your Employee List
121(8)
Opening Balances
129(6)
Entering Opening Balances in QuickBooks Pro
129(1)
Entering Invoices for Accounts Receivable
130(2)
Entering Bills for Accounts Payable
132(3)
Organizing Work Flow
135(8)
Setting Up Your Office Files
136(3)
Organizing Your Payroll
139(1)
Keeping Office Paperwork Current
139(4)
Estimating
143(8)
Using a Summary Estimate You Make Outside of QuickBooks Pro
144(2)
Customizing an Estimate Form
146(1)
Memorizing an Estimate
147(2)
Estimates and Progress Billing
149(1)
Getting Detailed Estimates
149(2)
Receivables
151(24)
Four Ways to Invoice a Customer
152(10)
Tracking Change Orders on Estimates
162(2)
How to Handle Retainage
164(5)
Recording a Payment You Receive
169(1)
Recording a Deposit
170(1)
Recording a Job Deposit
171(4)
Payables
175(16)
Creating and Using Purchase Orders
176(1)
Using Purchase Orders to Track Multiple Draws and Committed Costs
177(4)
Entering Bills Without Purchase Orders
181(2)
Selecting Bills for Payment
183(1)
Printing Checks
184(2)
Vendor Workers' Comp Reports
186(5)
Payroll
191(14)
Entering a Timesheet
191(4)
Processing Employee Payroll
195(6)
Allocating Sole Proprietor or Partner's Time to a Job
201(4)
Using QuickBooks Pro on a Cash Basis
205(8)
How to Record a Check
206(3)
How to Record a Deposit
209(2)
Checking Your Transactions with the QuickBooks Pro Register
211(2)
Reports
213(34)
How to Modify Reports
213(4)
Using Our Memorized Reports
217(17)
Using Jobs, Time & Mileage Reports
234(10)
Using Reports in QuickBooks Premier: Contractor Edition
244(3)
End of Month and End of Year Procedures
247(18)
End of Month Procedures
247(8)
Reading and Understanding Your Financial Reports
255(4)
End of Year Procedures
259(6)
Real Estate Development
265(26)
New Accounts
265(1)
Setting Up a Development Job
266(1)
Using Items to Track Construction Costs as WIP
267(2)
Land Purchase Transactions
269(4)
Personal Loans
273(6)
Development Loans
279(4)
Construction Loans
283(3)
Recording the Sale of a Property
286(5)
Appendix A Estimating with QuickBooks Pro
291(14)
Three Good Reasons to Try QuickBooks Pro Estimating
291(1)
A Road Map to Your Destination
292(1)
Setting Preferences for Estimating
293(2)
Building Your Item List
295(2)
Creating an Estimate in QuickBooks Pro
297(3)
Turning an Estimate into an Invoice
300(3)
Tidying Up Your Company File
303(2)
Appendix B Job Cost Tracking and Importing Estimates
305(34)
Estimates into Invoices
308(1)
Handling Tax
308(2)
Using Items for Job Cost Tracking
310(2)
Help Learning National Estimator
312(1)
Estimating with National Estimator
313(14)
Converting Estimates with Job Cost Wizard
327(12)
Index 339

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