What the book covers: This title includes the key features of QuickBooks and small business accounting including understanding double entry bookkeeping, planning and setting up a QuickBooks accounting system, loading the master files lists, invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, managing cash and bank accounts, setting up do-it-yourself payroll, preparing financial statements and reports, building a budget, using activity based costing, setting up project and job costing systems, conducting ratio analysis, using economic value added analysis, capital budgeting, using the profit-volume-cost analysis tools, creating a business plan forecast, writing a business plan, administering QuickBooks, protecting your financial data, troubleshooting, and more. With all new cloud storage QuickBooks users are able to access their information on their smartphone making running a small business that much more manageable. Information is presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than twenty years.