Quickbooks Online for Dummies (For Dummies Series) 1st Edition

It explained QuickBooks very well.

This book is well written: it flows and is an easy read. The reason for only 3 stars is no fault of the writer but of the software and print quality. I started using QuickBooks Online some months ago and was enormously frustrated by it so advance ordered this book. I thought it was my learning curve but the books shows that QBO cannot do what I thought would be its basic strengths as on online system. In fact, it cannot do anything but very basic accounting and payroll. So, about a third of this slim version is devoted to the average QBO user. At least a third to CPAs who use this for their clients. The last third is about the Chrome browser. So, with two thirds of the book useless to me, I am returning the book and looking for new accounting software. One other problem is that the publishers scrimped on ink so the diagrams and screen shots are difficult to see any detail; kind of grey and blurry.

Pluses: Thorough explanation of QuickBooks Online. User oriented presentation. Advice and guidance as promised. Minuses: Not really aimed at dummies, or maybe I'm dumber than most. Very basic setup (e.g. what income categories to use; how to categorize expenditures) isn't presented. The screenshots are helpful, even necessary but they're printed so lightly that they're hard to read.

I recently started using QB Online and had so many questions. This books answered everything I needed to know.

The book was pretty basic and I had already found most of this information online in the quickbooks help center and community forums. It is frustrating that Intuit has created a system that requires business owners to "hire" experts to provide the basic accounting tools necessary. I don't understand why the book doesn't include a basic overview of accounting for business owners. Or at least a simple explanation that it is best to set up your sales and income before you set up your expenses. The basic explanation of debits and credits. I really thought the purchase of this book was a waste of money.

This book is a waste of money! If it is "for dummies" then a section on fixing mistakes or troubleshooting would be helpful. The introduction states the author does not assume the reader is familiar with quickbooks so why would the author assume a user would make perfect entries all of the time. I bought this book because I am new to quickbooks online. I generally like having things in print so I can flip between pages and skim chapters when I am looking for a particular piece of information. This book however is worthless. I would NEVER recommend it to anyone!

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