QuickBooks 2012 For Dummies Paperback – Import, 1 November 2011

Bought it to familiarize myself with the program. Wrong book - bought the Quicken 2017 delux program. My fault.

I new to QuickBooks 2012 I have been working with this program for only about 5 months for a very small business whom doesn't require much. I have been able to wing it but had finally run into a problem and know one to answer my questions so I decided just to order the book that way it is always at my desk for references. So far it has been very easy to work with and reading this book has helped me get answers to things I had questions about without bothering anyone else in the office. I do recommend having a copy for an easy way of looking up something for those of us whom still like having a hard copy to look at.

I love this product and the ease of use. A great improvement over my experience with my older version MYOB.

I did like the book however, on this website, Amazon did not state in its description of the book, that this product is for American audiences. Payroll, taxes etc is all geared to an American audience. There are no chapters on GST, HST, labour codes, etc for Canada in this book. I thought that because I was on Amazon.CA that they had a shipment of Quickbooks for Dummies, it was the Canadian version. If I had known, that the crucial chapters I needed were American, I would have spent the extra money at Chapters and purchased the Canadian version. Amazon.CA needs to be clear on in their description of items on a supposedly Canadian site, that there is no Canadian content.

I am great with Quicken, but hadn't ever used QuickBooks. I am also not on the list of the first 50 people you'd ever ask for bookkeeping help. Recently I had occasion to help a family member figure out what she'd done to mess up her recently acquired QuickBooks program. My first step was to order this book.Like all "Dummies" books, this one follows a simple and standardized approach to teaching. It's easy to read, and makes few presumptions of knowledge. That's a good thing, since I didn't know anything. It was easy to follow the directions, easy to look up most of what I needed and pretty easy to fix the entry errors the program owner had made. For those not familiar with the Dummies series, it offers stuff you absolutely need to know, stuff that's good to know, and stuff that's sort of "extra". Bits of information are in sound-bite sizes so it's easy to follow the directions. The material is presented with the assumption -- with this book particularly -- that the user hasn't yet started to use the program, so it literally starts with how to start the program. The index is very detailed and I found it has 95% of the entries I needed (remember, I was deeply in to the "undo" phase). In the end I was able to repair the messy program, and clearly wouldn't have done it without the book.I did find one or two challenges. Mostly, they were challenges of trying to fix a program already set up, not challenges of the book -- it simply doesn't address how to "undo" some things. Having said that, though, if one spends a bit of time rereading carefully the section that's messed up, one can almost always figure out the "undo" anyhow.The book is softbound, easy to read print and with many illustrations. All in all, a great addition to those using QuickBooks for the first time. Definitely buy the book BEFORE installing the program and you'll avoid the problems I needed to solve.