Authors: Bonnie Biafore.
Paperback, 446 pages
Publisher: Pogue Press
Publication Date: 2007-11-15
Edition: 2Rev Ed

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    Quicken is one of the many convenient ways to keep track of personal finances, but many people are unaware of Quicken's power and end up using only the basic features. And sometimes Quicken seems to raise more questions than it answers: Return of capital from stock? "Net worth"? What are they and why do you need to know about them? Luckily, Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual picks up where Quicken's help resources leave off. You'll find step-by-step instructions for using the most useful Quicken features, including those you may not have quite understood, let alone mastered, such as budgeting, recording investment transactions, archiving Quicken data files, and so on. You also learn why and when to use specific features, and which ones would be most useful in your situation. Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual helps you: Set up Quicken to take care of your specific needs. Follow your money from the moment you earn it. Make deposits, pay for expenses, track the things you own and how much you owe. Take care of financial tasks online, and quickly reconcile your accounts. Create and use budgets and track your investments. Generate reports to prepare your tax returns and evaluate your financial fitness. And a lot more. This book is designed to accommodate readers at every technical level. If you're a first-time Quicken user, special boxes with the title "Up To Speed" provide the introductory information you need to understand the topic at hand. For advanced users, there are similar boxes called "Power Users' Clinic" that offer more technical tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the experienced Quicken fan. For a topic as important as your personal finances, why trust anything else?...

Authors: Stephen L., CPA, MBA, MS Nelson.
Paperback, 358 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2007-10-08


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    If you’ve considered using financial software to handle your personal finances, Quicken 2008 just might be the tool you’ve been looking for. Quicken is America’s top-selling personal finance software. It can help you manage the money for both your household and your small business, while Quicken 2008 For Dummies can help you manage Quicken.

With the number of individual bankruptcies at an alarming level, personal financial management needs to be a priority for each of us. You don’t have to be an accounting wizard to handle your personal finances on a PC, especially with the friendly, plain-English explanations in Quicken 2008 For Dummies! Written by a CPA who provides consulting services on accounting and tax planning to small businesses, Quicken 2008 For Dummies shows you how to:

• Install Quicken and run Express Setup
• Handle your checkbook, pay bills, and track your income
• Monitor and assess your investments
• Track loans and credit card activity
• Understand how interest compounds and what it costs when you borrow, as well as how it adds up when you invest
• Create charts and reports to show how you’re doing
• Use Quicken to handle your small business finances
• Prepare payroll and track accounts receivable and payable

Quicken 2008 For Dummies may not make managing your finances exactly fun, but it’s guaranteed to make the job easier....

Authors: Maria Langer.
Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2007-09-18
Edition: 1

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    The Only Intuit-Authorized Guide to the #1 Personal Finance Software

Manage your finances and assets quickly and easily using the expert techniques inside Quicken 2008: The Official Guide. Discover how to make the most of all the new and improved features and track your income, expenses, savings, transactions, investments, and more.

Fully endorsed by Intuit, makers of Quicken, this official guide will help you save time and money by showing you how to maximize the software's powerful capabilities--including many that you may not even know about. You'll get valuable insider tips and find out about online resources that will help guide you in making sound financial decisions and planning for a secure future.

• Customize Quicken for your preferences
• Track your cash flow
• Set up Online Account Services
• Automate transactions and tasks
• Reconcile checking, savings, and credit card accounts
• Track investments and optimize your portfolio
• Monitor assets and loans
• Manage household records
• Reduce debt, save money, and plan for retirement
• Simplify tax preparation and maximize deductions

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Authors: Stephen L., CPA, MBA, MS Nelson.
Paperback, 366 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2006-09-14


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• Stephen Nelson's previous For Dummies guides to Quicken have sold more than 900,000 copies
• Quicken has more than 16 million active users and 75 percent of the personal finance software market
• Shows people how to get their finances under control quickly and easily using Quicken
• Covers online banking and bill paying, tracking credit cards, managing loans, maximizing investments, calculating interest, preparing payroll, setting up accounts, creating reports, and more
• Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements in the new version of Quicken
• Published in conjunction with the release of Quicken "X"

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Authors: Stephen L., CPA, MBA, MS Nelson.
Kindle Edition, 408 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2007-09-24
Edition: 1

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• Stephen Nelson's previous For Dummies guides to Quicken have sold more than 900,000 copies
• Quicken has more than 16 million active users and 75 percent of the personal finance software market
• Shows people how to get their finances under control quickly and easily using Quicken
• Covers online banking and bill paying, tracking credit cards, managing loans, maximizing investments, calculating interest, preparing payroll, setting up accounts, creating reports, and more
• Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements in the new version of Quicken
• Published in conjunction with the release of Quicken "X"

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Authors: Bonnie Biafore.
Paperback, 428 pages
Publisher: Pogue Press
Publication Date: 2005-11-25


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    Intuit's Quicken is one of today's most popular and convenient ways to keep track of personal finances, and Quicken 2006 For Starters: The Missing Manual for Windows is the indispensable guide to using the program to simplify your finances and make the most of your money.

Whether you're new to electronic banking or just new to Quicken, this refreshingly funny and sensible book zeroes in on exactly what you need to get into Quicken fast. It teaches you how do such essential things as: balance your checkbook on your computer, keep tabs on your spending, create and manage a budget, monitor and pay bills on time, determine more ways to save and stick to your savings plan, manage loans and maximize investments, make tax preparation easier (even find hidden tax deductions!), and much more.

Financial-software writer and personal finance expert Bonnie Biafore delivers clear explanations and step-by-step instructions for the Quicken features you need, as well as relevant advice and plenty of real-world examples. Beginners will appreciate Biafore's clear guidance on how to set up Quicken to streamline their money management tasks. Power users will benefit from her insightful tips, tricks, and shortcuts for working around Quicken's idiosyncrasies and saving even more time and money.

The book is designed to help you get up to speed fast. Biafore steps you through the basics of Quicken. Then, as you become a more efficient and sophisticated Quicken user, she helps you take advantage of the program's little-known but powerful features. And throughout the book, she offers invaluable money-management principles. You'll be generating useful reports and graphs with ease; ensuring accuracy and consistency among all your accounts; and planning, saving, and controlling your finances like never before.

The book that gives you exactly what you need, Quicken 2006 For Starters: The Missing Manual helps you quickly make the most of Quicken 2006 for Windows.

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Authors: Peter Weverka.
Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2005-09-02


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    Do you know where you money goes? Would balancing your budget take an act of Congress? Does your idea of preparing for the future involve lottery tickets?

This friendly guide provides everything you need to know to stay on top of your finances and make the most of your money — both your cash and your Microsoft Money 2006 software program (the Premium, Deluxe, or Standard edition). You’ll find out how to record financial transactions, analyze different investments, determine your net worth, plan for retirement, make informed financial decisions, and more.

With step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions and lots of screen shots, Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies shows and tells you how to:

• Set up accounts and record all transactions, including charge card purchases
• Do your banking, categorize your spending and income, reconcile an account, print checks, and more
• Research and track investments
• Create a realistic budget, schedule bill payments, estimate your income tax bill, plan for retirement, and more
• Generate reports and charts that help you understand your spending habits, see where you stand financially, and improve your financial picture
• Track assets, liabilities, loans, and mortgages
• Use online banking services

You can even get really serious and use the Lifetime Planner to map out your hopes and dreams and find out if you’re on the way to achieving them. This book could be the best investment you’ll ever make!...

    Covers Premium, Deluxe, and Standard editions of Money Use Money to save money, make money, manage money, and get your money's worth Ever hear that it takes money to make money? Spend a little on this book and discover easy ways to set up accounts, do your banking online, research and track investments, make payments on time, even generate reports that help you understand where your money's going. Best of all, you'll find you're actually managing your money! Discover how to Set up Money or update from an earlier version Know what your investments are worth Estimate your tax bill Track income and expenses Generate reports Plan for retirement...

Authors: Maria Langer.
Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2006-08-07
Edition: 1

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The only official guide to Quicken--the #1 personal finance software on the market

Fully endorsed and reviewed by Inuit, makers of Quicken, Quicken 2007:The Official Guide offers the time- and money-saving techniques you need to organize and manage your personal finances and master all of the new and improved features of the software.

You will discover proven tips for managing money and investments--including spending, savings, budgets, banking, and more. The book explains how to track income and expenses, automate bill-pay, reconcile checking, savings, and credit card accounts, create reports, simplify filing systems--and even save on taxes. Financial calculators, capital gains snapshots, investment tracker tools, and online resources are also covered. The chapters closely follow the software to help you find information quickly and easily.

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Authors: Ted Dinsmore. Edward O'Connor.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: CMP Books
Publication Date: 2005-07-15


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    Advance Praise for Partnering with Microsoft: 'Partnering with Microsoft is the first great book about the breathtaking culture, opportunity and roadmap for joining Microsoft's 850,000 partners cutting an impressive B swath in the marketpl

This inside guide to effective partnering with Microsoft reveals how to become a trusted partner in order to gain supportive co-marketing, assured referrals, and joint success in selling complementary products and services....

Authors: Stephen L., CPA, MBA, MS Nelson.
Paperback, 364 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2005-09-26
Edition: 3Rev Ed

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    Maybe your idea of an accounting system is a shoe box that you simply stuff all your receipts and statements in when you shuffle off to see your accountant once a year. Perhaps you wonder where the money goes while you sip your daily cappuccino. Or maybe your retirement planning consists of buying lottery tickets.

It’s Quicken 2006 to the rescue! America’s #1 personal finance software, it helps you balance your bank account, track income and expenses, pay bills, manage investments, plan for the kids’ college or your retirement, and more! But merely owning the software won’t help—you have to know how to use it. With step-by-step instructions and lots of screen shots, this friendly guide shows you how to:

• Install and set up Quicken (or update from a previous version) and navigate using the financial activity centers and QuickTabs
• Manage personal or small business bank accounts and even print checks
• Set up and review a “Secret Plan” (the author’s term for a budget)
• Track your tax deductions
• Monitor your income and outgo (with eleven suggested categories for expenses)
• Track your assets (bank accounts, investments, and real estate), and debts (home mortgage principal, loan and credit card balances, etc.)
• Monitor stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
• Pay bills electronically and, in some cases, do all your banking online
• Maximize your investment earnings and minimize your taxes
• Handle the payroll for a small business

Author and Quicken guru Stephen Nelson is a CPA, so he knows how to help you get the most from Quicken 2006 and the most for your money. This guide empowers you to take charge of your finances. It covers:

• Using Quicken’s six powerful calculators to compare options and make smarter borrowing and refinancing decisions, more accurate savings and investment calculations, and more
• Creating and printing reports and charts to summarize your financial information in all kinds of ways
• Working with the Premier, Deluxe, and Basic editions of Quicken

Think about it. For less than the cost of a pair of shoes (and a new shoe box to put your valuable financial info in), you can learn how to determine exactly where your money goes and how to make it go further. Quicken 2006 For Dummies is an investment in your financial future—one that pays very good dividends....