Stephen L. Nelson

Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, MS in Taxation, is a CPA in Redmond, Washington, where he provides accounting, business advisory, and tax planning and preparation services to small businesses. He is the bestselling author of 100-plus books about how to use computers to manage personal and business finances.

Articles & Books From Stephen L. Nelson

QuickBooks 2024 All-in-One For Dummies
The quick way to get started—and get proficient—with QuickBooks QuickBooks 2024 All-in-One For Dummies is the solution small business owners and managers are seeking. This high-value reference combines 8 content-rich mini-books into one complete package, providing the answers you need to get the most out of the 2024 version of QuickBooks.
Article / Updated 09-21-2022
When you're working with QuickBooks, you will encounter command windows. To perform a common accounting or bookkeeping task in QuickBooks, use these commands. When QuickBooks displays the command's window, you just fill in the boxes and press Enter. To Do This Choose This QuickBooks Command Dealing with Custo
Article / Updated 08-01-2022
You can modify the rights that you assign to a user in QuickBooks Pro or Premier. To do this, choose Company → Set Up Users and Passwords → Set Up Users to display the User List dialog box (not shown).To look at the rights that a particular user has, select the user in the list and then click the View User button.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 05-02-2022
QuickBooks 2019 makes small-business accounting fast and easy. But your day-to-day business bookkeeping will go even more smoothly if you employ a handful of QuickBooks user interface tricks, editing tricks, and keyboard shortcuts.User interface tricksHere are some techniques that you can use to navigate the QuickBooks 2019 software more quickly: To move quickly to a specific list-box entry, press the letter.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-17-2022
QuickBooks 2021 makes small business accounting fast and easy. But your day-to-day business bookkeeping will go even more smoothly if you employ a handful of QuickBooks user interface tricks, editing tricks, and keyboard shortcuts. © ChubbyChii/Shutterstock.comUser interface tricks for QuickBooks 2021You can learn to navigate the QuickBooks 2021 software very quickly if you employ some of the following interface navigation tricks: To move quickly to a specific list-box entry, press the letter.
QuickBooks 2022 All-in-One For Dummies
The soup-to-nuts QuickBooks reference that will make your small business life so much simpler! QuickBooks makes it quick to do your books, and QuickBooks 2022 All-in-One For Dummies makes it easy. The leading small business accounting software will become your best friend, helping you cut costs (no more expensive financial services) and save time, with all your accounting and payroll info in one place.
Article / Updated 11-02-2021
Perhaps the most common data analysis tool that you'll use in Excel is the one for calculating descriptive statistics. To see how this works, take a look at this worksheet. It summarizes sales data for a book publisher.In column A, the worksheet shows the suggested retail price (SRP). In column B, the worksheet shows the units sold of each book through one popular bookselling outlet.
Article / Updated 10-06-2021
The Data Analysis command provides a tool for calculating moving and exponentially smoothed averages in Excel. Suppose, for sake of illustration, that you’ve collected daily temperature information. You want to calculate the three-day moving average — the average of the last three days — as part of some simple weather forecasting.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 10-01-2021
QuickBooks 2022 makes small-business accounting fast and easy. But your day-to-day business bookkeeping will go even more smoothly if you employ a handful of QuickBooks user interface tricks, editing tricks, and keyboard shortcuts. ©By ChubbyChii/Shutterstock.comQuickBooks 2022 user interface tricksHere are some techniques that you can use to navigate the QuickBooks 2022 software faster: To move quickly to a specific list-box entry, press the letter.
Article / Updated 04-06-2021
Balancing a bank account is remarkably easy in QuickBooks. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that if you have any problems, they stem from . . . well, sloppy record keeping that preceded your use of QuickBooks.Enough of this blather. I get started by describing how you reconcile an account. Give QuickBooks information from the bank statement In a reconciliation, as you probably know, you compare your records of a bank account with the bank’s records of the same account.