With QuickBooks, you can build a budget, process payroll, track income and outgo, and make tax time a little less stressful. Even though it’s a pretty intuitive system, QuickBooks—like all accounting software—requires a bit of set-up to make it run efficiently and tailor it to your business. QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies shows you how to

• Work with accounts payable and receivable
• Handle credit card transactions
• Keep your business checkbook
• Build a perfect budget
• Print checks and generate reports
• Manage your payroll and prepare payroll tax returns
• Estimate, bill, and track jobs
• Prepare customer invoices, record sales, and pay bills
• Take care of those necessary tasks that happen at the end of the week, the month, the year, or the billing cycle