Business Analysis with QuickBooks

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Wiley, Oct 27, 2009 - Computers - 432 pages
Manage your business and make sound decisions with the help of QuickBooks

Quickbooks is a user-friendly accounting software program that can analyze data to help you make smart decisions for a small- or medium-sized business. However, few books explain how to maximize the features of QuickBooks reports for management purposes-until now. Author Conrad Carlberg guides you through the most beneficial ways to use and adapt QuickBooks reports by taking the summary data and placing it into a context that helps manage a business.

By avoiding aiming the coverage to a specific version of QuickBooks, this book is a timeless resource that clearly explains how to bring financial data together in order to help make wise business decisions.

  • Use the popular accounting software program QuickBooks to help you make wise business management decisions
  • Identify specific weak points in a business and learn how to turn them around
  • Quantify working capital and manage inventory valuation properly
  • Learn how to understand what QuickBook reports say about the state of your business now and for the future

Quickly get started converting QuickBooks accounting data into results that help you make informed business decisions and manage your business.

About the author (2009)

Conrad Carlberg holds a PhD in statistics. He has operated a consulting firm for 15 years, and has been a business computing columnist for the Denver Business Journal. He is the author of Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies (Wiley) as well as a number of other books on business analysis.

Technical editor William "Bill" Murphy has over 30 years of financial and teaching experience. He is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, as well as a QuickBooks Point-of-Sales and QuickBooks Enterprise ProAdvisor. Bill's consulting firm, RRR, Ltd. has been helping businesses with QuickBooks set-up, use, and problem resolution since 1989.

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