Wiley QuickBooks 2007 For Dummies 978-0-470-07278-3 Manuel D’Utilisation

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 like “Why even use QuickBooks?”,

“Where and how does a guy or gal start?”, and most important, “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, let’s also ask the question “Why QuickBooks?” Why not, for
example, use some other accounting software program?

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