Dummies - QuickBooks 2007 AIO Desk Reference For Dummies

Introduction

Few people read introductions to reference books, so I’ll make this very brief. I just want to tell you which versions of QuickBooks this book works for, what’s in the reference, what it assumes about your existing skills, and about the conventions used in the reference.

About This Book

QuickBooks comes in several different flavors, including QuickBooks Simple Start, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. This reference talks about QuickBooks 2007 Premier, which is a superset of QuickBooks Pro and sort of a subset of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.

If you’re using QuickBooks Simple Start — which is the simplest, most bare bones version of QuickBooks — you should not use this book. Sorry. Fortunately, I have a solution of sorts for you. You might want to get another book I’ve written, QuickBooks Simple Start For Dummies (Wiley Publishing, Inc.). That book covers the Simple Start version of QuickBooks in friendly detail.

On the other hand, even though this book is written for QuickBooks Premier, if you’re using QuickBooks Pro or QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, don’t worry. You’re just fine with this book. And don’t freak out if you’re using some version of QuickBooks that’s very similar to QuickBooks 2007, such as QuickBooks 2006 or QuickBooks 2008. Although this reference is about QuickBooks Pro 2007, it also works just fine for the 2005, 2006, and probably 2008 versions of QuickBooks because QuickBooks is a very mature product at this point. The changes from one year to the next are modest. This means that if you’re using QuickBooks 2005, stuff may look a little different if you closely compare the images in this book to what you see on your screen, but the information in this reference will still apply to your situation.