Contractors Guide To QuickBooks Pro
Professional Bookkeeping System

Price: $47.75-49.75*

Craftsman Book Co.
ISBN 1572187
344 pages - 8-1/2 x 11

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If you'd rather be building homes than burning the midnight oil trying to balance your books, you should have this new book. It includes a CD-ROM with a template for a construction company to help speed your set up, an estimating program with a 5000-item database, a program that converts your estimates into QuickBooks forms so you can compare with your actual costs, and blank construction forms for your use.

Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2005

QuickBooks Pro can save you hours of time in preparing your taxes. But setting up the new 2005 QuickBooks Pro can be complex and time-consuming. Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2005 can save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the new features that this 2005 edition offers. QuickBooks Pro isn't just for taxes. You can use it for payroll, keeping track of your vendors and subs -- even job costing (comparing your estimated costs to your actual costs and finding out where you're making and losing money.)

QuickBooks Pro isn't just for taxes. You can use it for payroll, keeping track of your vendors and subs -- even job costing (comparing your estimated costs to your actual costs and finding out where you're making and losing money.)

19 Sections, including:

Set up, Preferences, Chart of Accounts, Setting up Items (for job phases), Payroll Items (including workers compensation), Classes, Customers and Jobs, Vendors & Subs, Employees, Entering Opening Balances, Procedures and Workflow, Estimating (in and out of QBP), Receivables (including 3 different methods of invoicing customers), Payables, Payroll, Using the Register, Reports, End of the Month/Year procedures, and a special chapter for Real Estate Developers.

Works the Way You Do

These manuals are low on "accounting speak" and high on concrete examples. It makes accounting simple for non-accountants because it works the way you do.

According to a recent national survey, more contractors use QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks than all other accounting programs combined. And for a good reason. QuickBooks Pro excels at all the routine paperwork in a construction office: writing checks, keeping track of you bank balance, sending out invoices and statements, creating up-to-the-minute profit and loss statements for the month, year or by job, writing payroll checks, paying suppliers and subcontractors, tracking job costs, comparing estimated and actual costs for each job, and much more.

Essential Features

Written for contractors by contractors. QuickBooks Pro excels at all the routine paperwork in a construction office. This acclaimed book shows you how to easily use these essential features:

Chart of Accounts
Vendors & Subs
Job Items
Estimating
Job Costing
Payroll Items
Worker's Comp
Customers: Jobs
Classes

Here's what's on the CD-ROM

A QuickBooks Pro file
Preconfigured for a construction company. The file has a chart of accounts already entered, plus a complete set of memorized reports. Just plug in your own company data -- vendors, subs, customers, etc. And at the click of a mouse, you have all the information needed to run your jobs.

National Estimator
An easy-to-use estimating program with over 100 pages of construction cost estimating data for general contractors. Dozens of other databases are available. (QuickBooks Pro doesn't come with any estimating data.)

Blank construction forms
You can open on your computer (with nearly any of the popular word processing programs) customize, fill out, print and send to customers and subcontractors.

You can use this link for a thorough Introduction to using the book & cd-rom.

Includes Job Cost Wizard

Recommended for QuickBooks Pro! Job Cost Wizard v. 2.0 is a report generator for National Estimator. Everyone who uses National Estimator to estimate construction costs will appreciate Job Cost Wizard. This new program will be even more valuable if you use both National Estimator and either QuickBooks or QuickBooks Pro.

Job Cost Wizard converts National Estimator estimates into IIF format so they can be imported directly into QuickBooks. Once an estimate is accepted and the project starts, Job Cost Wizard transfers the estimate to QuickBooks Pro or Premier, automatically updating billing, statements and job-cost tracking. Job Cost Wizard also automatically creates item list accounts, eliminating typing errors and saving clerical time.

• Support for long item names.
• Alternate account names.
• Support for National Estimator 32.
• qbXML integration with QuickBooks 2004 Pro & higher.

Requires Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP. (Doesn't work with Windows 3.1 or 3.11.) Works with QuickBooks or QuickBooks Pro (versions 5, 6, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004, 2005).