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Book:   QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
Subject:   Disappointed
Date:   2005-03-09 14:41:20
From:   JZ
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I thought I'd learn some workarounds for some of the annoying things about Quickbooks, but the instructions in this book are almost the same instructions provided in the help files. For example, the author suggests you enter an opening balance when you create a bank account, and most accountants who support Quickbooks know that's not a good idea, and causes complicated journal entries. There's no easy to understand coverage of the occasional complicated transactions, especially involving dealing with customer credits on different jobs, etc. etc. Also, the author says that for nonprofits, some of the nonprofit features missing in the Pro version are in the Nonprofit version, but that's not true.

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"One of the beauties of the Missing Manuals is that there is always something new to discover and the research is quite thorough...I kept finding snippets of information, in the way of Tips or Notes, that would give just that bit extra."
--Graham K. Rogers, Bangkok Post