Scheduling a Payment with the Quicken 2007 Calendar
If a payment occurs regularly — the payment might be for a loan or some other regular bill like your cable TV service — you can use Quicken to set it up as a scheduled payment. When you do so, Quicken [more…]
Using Microsoft Money 2005 to Track a Home's Value or Other Asset
Ask most homeowners what their most valuable asset is, and they'll say their house. But ask them how much equity they have in that house, and you usually get a much less definitive answer — if you get [more…]
Setting Up Your First Accounts in Quicken 2003
If you've used a previous version of Quicken, the program asks if you want to convert your data to the new version. Do this. After you've upgraded from the older version, all your accounts should be ready [more…]
Handling Stocks with Microsoft Money 2005
Keeping track of stocks is probably the most problematic task you will ever undertake with Money. Merely figuring out what a short sell is, not to mention a margin buy and a stock split, is hard enough [more…]
Recording Bond Transactions with Microsoft Money
A bond is really a loan that you make to a government agency or private corporation. During the life of the loan, the government agency or corporation pays you interest, known as the [more…]
Listen Up: Microsoft Money's Telling You to Pay Bills
After a bill or deposit is scheduled, Money gives you ten days' warning to pay it. In other words, you get ten days to get out of Dodge, and if you don't heed the warning but stick around and gamble at [more…]
Setting Up Checking and Savings Accounts in Microsoft Money 2005
After you see the big picture and know what an account and a register are, you can create an account. In the next sections, you find out how to set up a checking account, savings account, and credit card [more…]
Using the Quicken 2006 Retirement Calculator
Imagine that you decide to jump into your employer's 401(k) thing (a type of profit-sharing plan) and that it allows you to plop $6,000 into a retirement account that you think will earn about 9 percent [more…]
Using the Investment Saving Calculator with Quicken 2004
The folks at Intuit provide several nifty little calculators (most are dialog boxes) with Quicken. At the very least, the calculators should make your work easier. And if you invest a little time, you [more…]
Calculating the Cost of College with Quicken 2004
Ouch. Take comfort in knowing that you are not alone. Millions of other parents are experiencing the same pain in their chest at the thought of financing a college education for their sons and daughters [more…]
How to Perform Common QuickBooks 2009 Tasks with a Right-Click
QuickBooks 2009 strives to make your accounting easy by making use of every available tool. You have the keyboard for shortcuts and the right-click button of the mouse for help opening windows and accessing [more…]
Tips for Navigating in QuickBooks 2009
QuickBooks 2009 aims to make your accounting life easier, and to that end offers keyboard shortcuts, mouse actions, and other user interface tricks like the ones in the following list: [more…]
QuickBooks 2009 Calculation and Editing Tips
If you’re using QuickBooks 2009, you’re probably using QuickBooks it a lot to make calculations and change dates. QuickBooks gives you options for doing some of the more common calculations and edits quickly [more…]
How to Keep Your Debits and Credits Straight with QuickBooks 2009
In any accounting system, including QuickBooks, the natural balance for asset accounts is on the left (debit), and the natural balance for liability and owner’s equity accounts is on the right [more…]
Keyboard Shortcuts for QuickBooks 2009
Doing your accounts shouldn’t take all day, and with the handy keyboard shortcuts in QuickBooks 2009, they don’t. Use the keys in the following table to speed through the QuickBooks functions: [more…]
QuickBooks 2009 For Dummies Cheat Sheet
QuickBooks is designed to make your accounting tasks easy to record, change, and calculate so that your debits balance your credits and vice versa. QuickBooks offers a variety of methods to accomplish [more…]
QuickBooks 2010 Calculation and Editing Tricks
If the selection cursor is in an amount field in QuickBooks 2010, you can use these symbol keys to make calculations: [more…]
Right-Click for Common QuickBooks 2010 Tasks
To perform a common QuickBooks 2010 task related to a window, right-click to display a shortcut menu. In a register, select and right-click a specific transaction; in a list, right-click an item; in a [more…]
QuickBooks 2010 User Interface Tricks
Here are some techniques that you can use to more quickly navigate the QuickBooks 2010 software: [more…]
QuickBooks 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts
Use the QuickBooks 2010 keyboard shortcuts shown in the following table to make your day-to-day small business accounting easier and faster: [more…]
QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies Cheat Sheet
QuickBooks 2010 makes small-business accounting fast and easy. But your day-to-day business bookkeeping will go even smoother if you employ a handful of QuickBooks keyboard shortcuts and data-entry and [more…]
QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts
QuickBooks 2010 provides a bunch of handy shortcuts you can use to accomplish important accounting tasks. This table identifies some of the best and most useful QuickBook shortcuts: [more…]
Performing Common QuickBooks Tasks
To perform a common accounting or bookkeeping task in QuickBooks, use these commands. When QuickBooks displays the commands window, you just fill in the boxes and press Enter. [more…]
QuickBooks 2010 All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet
QuickBooks 2010 makes life easier for small business owners and accountants everywhere. But that doesn’t mean you want to spend any more time working with QuickBooks 2010 than you have to. These handy [more…]
Windows Tricks for Quicken 2010 Users
Quicken “plays” well with Windows. Accordingly, you can use a handful of standard Windows tricks to make your use of Quicken financial recording program easier — and faster. [more…]
