Missing CD-ROM
Here's the portable company file used in QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual
Click here to
download OpeningBal_JournalEntry.QBM. (If you have any trouble downloading or opening OpeningBal_JournalEntry.QBM, you can download the full-size company file
here. But be warned: It's a big file [7.91 MB].)
Chapter 1: Creating a Company in QuickBooks
- QuickBooks Find-a-ProAdvisor website
Locate someone in your area to help you get started with QuickBooks
- Intuit QuickBooks Set-up & Training Services
For-free services to help you get QuickBooks up and running
- QuickBooks Support
Intuit publishes a detailed guide to help you prepare for a Quicken conversion. Search for
"Quicken convert," and then click the "Convert data to QuickBooks from other
programs" link. On the article web page, under the heading "Is your data already in
QuickBooks or Quicken format?" click the "Converting or upgrading between different
versions of QuickBooks or Quicken" link.
Chapter 3: Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
Chapter 5: Creating Invoice Items
- Fish Bowl Inventory
Track inventory and keep QuickBooks informed
- Intuit Marketplace
To find solutions for working with contractors and construction companies, on the menu
bar, click Find Software and then choose Find Solutions by Industry on the drop-down
menu. In the By Industry tab's drop-down menu, choose Construction/Contractors.
- Intuit Marketplace
If find solutions for tracking inventory for products you manufacture products, click Find
Software and then choose Find Solutions by Industry on the drop-down menu. Then
choose Manufacturing_ Inventory and Order Management.
Chapter 6: Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
- Intuit Marketplace
To find third-party programs that help you calculate sales commissions, search for "sales
commission"
Chapter 7: Managing QuickBooks Files
- Carbonite
Online backup service with unlimited storage space
- Dropbox
A backup and synchronization service
- Mozy
Online backup site
- CrashPlan
Back up your files to the destination of your choice: another hard disk on your computer,
or another computer
- QIF to IIF Converter for QuickBooks
Transfer transactions from one QuickBooks file to another
Chapter 8: Tracking Time and Mileage
Chapter 9: Paying for Expenses
- Order checks from Intuit
In the horizontal navigation bar, click Checks & Supplies. Below the Banking heading,
click Checks.
Chapter 14: Doing Payroll
Chapter 17: Generating Financial Statements
- XE
Find currency exchange rates
Chapter 18: Performing End-of-Year Tasks
- MyPC.com
- LogMeIn.com
Remote access services that you can use to let your accountant access your QuickBooks
company file over the Internet
- Intuit Marketplace
In the horizontal navigation bar, click Tax Products, and then choose 1099 Kits to find
kits with preprinted 1099 forms
- IRS
Click the "Forms and Publications" link to order 1099 forms directly from the IRS
Chapter 19: Managing Inventory
Chapter 22: Online Banking Services
Chapter 24: Integrating QuickBooks with Other Programs
Chapter 26: Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure
Appendix A: Installing QuickBooks
- Amazon.com
Find copies of QuickBooks 2010 at a discount
Appendix B: Help, Support, and Other Resources
- QuickBooks Find-a-ProAdvisor website
Find a trained professional to help you with QuickBooks for a fee
- QuickBooks Community
Look for answers to your questions about accounting practices and how to do them in
QuickBooks
- Quickbooksusers.com
Forums for different editions of QuickBooks
- Qbalance.com
QuickBooks training for folks at any level of experience
- Real World Training
Regularly scheduled instructor-led classes in many cities around the country (or in your
office), training on CD, and weekly online classes
- Intuit Support
Purchase a support plan from Intuit
- Intuit Support
If you are reinstalling QuickBooks and can't find your license number, under the Popular
Topics heading click the "Find your license number" link. You enter your last name and
business telephone number, and Intuit retrieves your registration record with your license
number and key code.
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
