Quickbooks 2006 Study Guide

1-4188-6140-5 © 2007 Publish date: April 18, 2006 230 pages

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CBT Planet presents another one of our highly rated computer training books, the Quickbooks 2006 study guide. ProCert Labs has awarded this course an overall quality rating of 4.7/5.0.

Use the Quickbooks 2006 courseware to learn the fundamentals of using QuickBooks for keeping track of a small business's finances. By learning how to use this software, your job skills will be appreciated and in demand. You will learn how to set up new companies in the software in order to manage all of the business's banking and billing activities.

The course lets you use the Customer and Vendor Centers , Chart of Accounts, and Items Lists for managing customer data, purchase orders, invoices, inventory, and both accounts payables and receivables. You will also learn how to create budgets and reports as well as learn how to back up and protect QuickBooks data.

This Quickbooks 2006 courseware is designed for self-directed study or as a supplement to your other training programs. It should take about a day or so for the typical user to complete however you are in charge of your learning and can take as much, or as little, time as you need to learn how to use Quickbooks.

Course Objectives

By choosing this courseware, you will learn how to start and exit from the program, how to work and navigate within the QuickBooks environment, how to open company files, and access the Help system for assistance.

You will learn about using the EasyStep Interview for setting up new companies and you will learn how to modify the Chart of Accounts.

Other topics include managing customers, vendors, employees, jobs, and notes as well as how to use the Item List to create inventory and non-inventory items.

You will learn how to prepare invoices, sales receipts, credit memos, and purchase orders, how to receive payments, how to apply credits, how to work with inventory, and how to search for completed forms.

The course covers tasks such as writing and printing checks, managing banking and billing activities, transferring funds between accounts, paying bills, editing transactions, and setting up payroll.

You will also learn how to generate and print reports and how to create and modify budgets. Finally, you will learn how to work in a multi-user environment. You will learn how to assign an administrator, closing-date, set up user passwords, grant user access, and back up the company file.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces Quickbooks 2006

• QuickBooks 2006 overview
• How to get help and close QuickBooks

Unit 2 covers setting up new companies

• Working with the EasyStep Interview
• Working with the Chart of Accounts

Unit 3 discusses centers and lists

• How to manage customers, vendors, and employees
• using the Item List
• How to add custom fields

Unit 4 covers business forms

• How to create invoices and credit memos
• Sales receipts and customer payments
• Purchase orders and inventory
• Searching for completed forms

Unit 5 talks about banking and billing activities

• Writing and printing checks
• How to manage bank account transactions
• How to enter and pay bills
• An introduction to payroll

Unit 6 covers reports and budgets

• How to generate reports
• How to set up budgets

Unit 7 talks about protecting and backing up data

• Protecting and sharing data
• Backing up data