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QuickBooks Desktop 2018: A Complete Course, 17th edition

Published by Pearson (July 27, 2018) © 2019

  • Janet Horne Los Angeles Pierce College

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For 1-semester microcomputer accounting courses.

A real-world accounting experience with extensive hands-on material

Designed for those familiar with the accounting cycle and how it relates to business, QuickBooks® Desktop 2018: A Complete Course is a comprehensive instructional learning resource. It uses the QuickBooks Premier Accountant 2018 software to provide hands-on training in recording business transactions for service and inventory businesses.

The 17th Edition features the latest software and instructions. With ample opportunities to apply the material they're learning about, students can successfully transition from training to using QuickBooks Online Plus in an actual business.

Hallmark features of this title

Learn and apply accounting concepts

  • Step-by-step tutorial-style training stimulate real-world occurrences. It helps students develop confidence in recording business transactions for service and merchandising businesses, sole proprietorships, and partnerships.
  • Intuit's Test Drive Company helps students drill, practice and explore transaction analysis and entry.
  • QuickBooks® screenshots, completed transactions, and reports help students visually conceptualize accounting concepts.

An innovative approach

  • No prior knowledge of Microsoft® Windows®, or QuickBooks® is required.
  • Emphasis is placed on recording accounting transactions based on a business form vs. a traditional journal format.
  • Students can download the software and use it at their own convenience.

New and updated features of this title

Enhanced functionality

  • UPDATED: Improved instructions help users download QuickBooks from Intuit's website.
  • UPDATED: Enhanced search features include smart search, amount range search, search by customer and vendor type, and search in chart of accounts.
  • UPDATED: Complex passwords to protect data, a password vault, and the use of a more secure webmail and e-invoicing help heighten security.
  • NEW: Additional employee information can be added, including marital status, citizenship, ethnicity, and disability.

Learn and apply accounting concepts

  • NEW: An educational trial version of the program is now available for students.
  • UPDATED: Extensive assignment material lets instructors test students' knowledge.
  1. Introduction to QuickBooks 2018 and Company Files
  2. Sales and Receivables: Service Business
  3. Payables and Purchases: Service Business
  4. General Accounting and End-of- Period Procedures: Service Business

SECTION I: PRACTICE SET, SERVICE BUSINESS: YOUR NAME AT YOUR SERVICE

  1. Sales and Receivables: Merchandising Business
  2. Payables and Purchases: Merchandising Business
  3. General Accounting and End-of-Period Procedures: Merchandising Business

SECTION II: PRACTICE SET, MERCHANDISING BUSINESS: YOUR NAME’S ULTIMATE GOLF

  1. Payroll
  2. Creating a Company in QuickBooks
  • Comprehensive Practice Set: Your Name’s Capitol Books

APPENDICES

  1. QuickBooks Program Integration
  2. QuickBooks Features
  3. QuickBooks Online Features

About our author

Janet Horne received her master of science in business administration and bachelor of science in business education from California State University, Long Beach and has spent her educational career teaching business and computer applications courses. The majority of her teaching career has been at Los Angeles Pierce College. Where, in addition to being a full-time professor, she was the Computer Applications and Office Technologies Department Chairperson, served on many committees, and developed new programs. Horne has been a presenter at many educational meetings and seminars and has been involved with a variety of professional organizations.

Horne’s quest to find a textbook to use in teaching QuickBooks® led her to write one of the first texts for QuickBooks. As technologies change, it is important to work within the new technological environments. Other textbooks by Horne include several editions of QuickBooks: A Complete Course (uses QuickBooks Desktop Accountant software), QuickBooks Pro: Simplified, QuickBooks Pro: An Introduction, Peachtree Complete Accounting, Getting Started with QuickBooks Pro, and Computerized Accounting with CA-Simply Accounting. Horne is also the author of Runners Corporation and A-1 Photography accounting practice sets.

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