Wiley QuickBooks 2008 For Dummies 978-0-470-18470-7 Benutzerhandbuch

In This Chapter

Why you truly need a tool like QuickBooks

What QuickBooks actually does

Why QuickBooks is a popular choice

What you need to do (in general) to get started

How to succeed in setting up and using QuickBooks

I

want to start our conversation by quickly covering some basic questions

concerning QuickBooks: questions such as, “Why even use QuickBooks?”,

“Where and how does a guy or gal start?” — and, most importantly, “What
should you not do?”

This little orientation shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. Really. And the
orientation should let you understand the really, really big picture concerning
QuickBooks.

Why QuickBooks?

Okay, I know you know that you need an accounting system. Somebody, maybe
your accountant or spouse, has convinced you of this. And you, being the
team player that you are, have just accepted this conventional viewpoint as
the truth.

But just between you and me, why do you really need QuickBooks? And what
does QuickBooks do that you really, truly need done? And heck, just to be truly
cynical, also ask the question, “Why QuickBooks?” Why not, for example, use
some other accounting software program?

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