1. Using QuickBooks Pro for Accounting 2008 Glenn Owen
Chapter One
An Interactive Tour of QuickBooks

2. Chapter One What is QuickBooks
An automated accounting information system
Organizes and summarizes data into reports and graphs
Invoices customers
Maintains receivables
Pays bills
Maintains accounts payable
Tracks inventory
Creates purchase orders
Builds an audit trail
Using QuickBooks Pro 2008 for Accounting

3. Chapter One Four Basic Features of an Accounting Information System
Lists (groups of names and information about those names)
customers
vendors
employees
inventory items
accounts
Using QuickBooks Pro 2008 for Accounting

4. Chapter One Summary Working with QuickBooks
Launch QuickBooks
Restore and Open a File
Work with Data Files (QBW)
QuickBooks Window
Backup and Close a File
Menus
Shortcut List
Decision Making
Printing
QuickBooks Help and Learning Center
QuickBooks Home Page
Exit QuickBooks
Using QuickBooks Pro 2008 for Accounting

5. Chapter One Using QuickBooks Help
Help Feature
Help Index
Ask Button
How Do I Buttons
Learning Center
Using QuickBooks Pro 2008 for Accounting

6. Chapter One QuickBooks Home Page
Provides a big picture of how business tasks fit together
Organizes tasks into logical groups (Customers, Vendors, Employees, Company, and Banking)
Shows with workflow arrows how tasks relate to each other
Using QuickBooks Pro 2008 for Accounting