Quicken 2001 for Macs for Dummies

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Put your New Year's resolutions about financial organization into practice while the task of computerizing all your money transactions is still manageable. Quicken 2001 for Macs for Dummies explains how Quicken 2001, the popular personal-finance program from Intuit, can help you monitor your money situation and make better decisions about saving, spending, borrowing, and investing. This book, which is meant for someone who's up to speed with the basics of personal finance, but not very familiar with computerized accounting, focuses on Quicken's operation rather than on the figures that the program tracks. Author Stephen Nelson tells you how to record purchases and sales of mutual fund shares, for example, but doesn't attempt to argue for or against that kind of investing.

Nelson's instructions for using Quicken's numerous features are detailed, yet easy; they're typical of the Dummies series. He's chosen to back no-frills instructions--"Enter the check amount"--with explanatory text that deals with questions of formatting (Do I include the dollar sign?) and how to deal with unusual situations. This book would be better if Nelson had included advice on accounting for unusual transactions, such as options redemptions and short sales of shares, but what's here is more than adequate for someone with a couple of bank accounts, a mortgage, a credit card or two, and some simple investments. --David Wall

Topics covered: Intuit Quicken 2001 for Mac OS, for people who haven't used the program before. The author explains how to account for transactions in checking, savings, and credit accounts. He also shows how to keep track of home equity and mortgages, as well as investments in stocks, bonds, and funds.

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From balancing a checkbook to preparing our taxes, Quicken 2001 For Macs For Dummies enables readers to get the most out of this powerful financial software. The book highlights the latest updates to Quicken while still covering al the basics. Absolute beginners to Quicken can refer to sections on installing the program and establishing basic accounts. Experienced Quicken users can refer to the book when calculating interest rates or preparing financial security for the future. The book also provides hassle-free instruction on the latest features for tracking loans, mortgages, and investments such as stocks and mutual funds. Special tips are included on bookkeeping without fear, surviving an audit, and banking online.

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Quicken 2001 for Dummies
Stephen L. Nelson
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
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With 15 million users and 80% of the market for personal finance software, Quicken is the program people turn to first when they want to manage their money more effectively or make the switch to on-line banking. Now updated to cover the enhanced features of the latest Quicken release, which will ship preinstalled on many new computers, this perennial bestseller helps users get up to speed fast-and start saving time and money.

Quicken 2001 for Dummies Quick Reference

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Explains Quicken in clear, easy-to-follow terms

Quicken 2001 for Dummies Quick Reference
Peter Weverka
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Binding: Plastic Comb

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Planning for major events in your family's life? Sending your children to college and planning for retirement can be overwhelming but Quicken 2001 For Dummies Quick Reference will show you how interrelated events will affect each other. Quicken users can refer to the book when calculating interest rates or preparing financial security for the future. From balancing a checkbook to preparing our taxes, Quicken 2001 For Dummies Quick Reference enables you to get the most out of this powerful financial software. The book also provides hassle-free instruction on the latest features for tracking loans, mortgages, and investments such as stocks and mutual funds.

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Explains Quicken in clear, easy-to-follow terms.......2000-12-19

{Pardon my 5-star immodesty. I am the author of this book and Amazon requires me to rate my book when I submit this review.)

Financial counselors agree that keeping good, accurate records is the first step toward financial security. In order to make sound financial decisions, you must be conscientious of your spending habits and know how much income you really have. How can you save for a down payment on a house if you don't know how much you are capable of saving? How can you tell if your investments are doing well if you don't track them carefully?

This book makes it very, very easy to track your finances with Quicken. After you have read it and started using the techniques described here, you will know what your net worth is, how much you spend in different areas, what your investments (if you have any) are worth, and how much in taxes you will owe next year. You will know how to generate reports and graphs that describe in clear terms what your spending habits are, plan for retirement, compare mortgages and loans, and analyze different types of investments.

This book is for people who want to get up to speed with Quicken in a hurry -- people who want to explore Quicken's many excellent features without spending a lot of time doing it. In this book, I don't describe how to use Quicken -- I explain how Quicken serve your and your financial goals.

Here are the topics (taken from the table of contents) that are covered in the book:

The Big Picture

What You See: A Quicken Window

What You See: An Account Register

Toolbar Table

The Basics: Starting Quicken

The Basics: Entering a Transaction in a Register

The Basics: Moving Around in Account Registers

The Basics: Moving from Window to Window

The Basics: Backing Up Your Quicken Data

The Basics: Opening an Account Register

The Basics: Using QuickEntry to Enter Transactions

The Basics: Closing Quicken

The Basics: Getting the Help You Need

What You Can Do: Find Out Where You Spend Your Money

What You Can Do: Write and Print Checks Electronically

What You Can Do: Instantly Update Your Portfolio on the Internet

What You Can Do: Get a Jump-Start on Your Taxes

Part I: Introducing Quicken

Examining the Tasks You Can Do in Quicken

Finding Your Way in Quicken

Setting Up a Checking, Savings, or Credit Card Account

Part II: Recording Your Financial Activity

Creating and Managing Your Categories and Subcategories

Entering Transactions in Checking and Savings Account Registers

Entering Transactions in Credit Card Registers

Finding @md and Fixing @md Lost Transactions

Getting Help from the Quicken Calculator

Handling a Cash Account

Moving Records from One Account or File to Another

Printing an Account Register

Printing Checks

Setting Up and Managing Category Groups

Setting Up and Managing Classes

Splitting a Transaction between Different Categories

Transferring Money Between Accounts

Voiding and Deleting Transactions

WebEntry: Taking Quicken on the Road

Part III: Reconciling a Bank or Other Kind of Account

All about Reconciling

Balancing a Checking or Savings Account

Balancing a Credit Card Account

Recognizing and Fixing Reconciliation Problems

Part IV: Making Your Time with Quicken More Productive

Being Alerted to Financial Events

Being Reminded to Do Things

Customizing the My Finances Window

Deciding What You See When You Start Quicken

Deciding Which Accounts to See on the Account List

Keeping Track of Addresses in the Financial Address Book

Making QuickFill Work Your Way

Recording a Paycheck Deposit Automatically

Scheduling Transactions So That You Don't Forget to Make Them

Part V: Techniques for Measuring Your Financial Success

Easy Answers from an EasyAnswer Report or Graph Getting a Ready-Made Report from Quicken

Graphing Your Finances

Making Your Own Customized Reports

Memorizing a Report or Graph So That You Can Use It Later

Printing Reports and Graphs

Part VI: Quicken for Investors

Comparing Investments and Indices

Entering Investment Transactions

Exploring Quicken.com (and Other Investment Web Sites)

Portfolio and Security Detail View for Examining Your Investments

Setting Up an Investment Account

Setting Up a Security

Updating the Market Value of Securities

Part VII: Planning Your Financial Future with Quicken

Budgeting with Quicken

Devising a Plan to Reduce Your Debt

Forecasting Your Future Cash Flow

Planning for Your Retirement

Saving for a Child's College Education

Saving Toward a Goal

Part VIII: Banking Online with Quicken

Applying for and Getting Ready to Use the Services

Connecting Quicken to the Internet

Getting Accurate, Up-to-Date Account Information

One Step Update: Going Online

Paying the Bills Online

Transferring Money Between Accounts

Part IX: Getting the Housekeeping Done

Archive Files: Closing Out the Year

Creating a New Data File

Deleting Accounts

Emergency Records Organizer: Keeping Your Vital Information

Moving Quicken Data to a New Computer

Protecting Your Financial Records with Passwords

Renaming, Copying, and Deleting Quicken Files

Restoring Data from Backed Up Files

Part X: Quicken as a Financial Analysis Tool

Calculating the Future Value of an Investment

Calculating the Price of a Loan or Mortgage

Forecasting Your Future Financial Position

Getting Home-Buying Advice

Investigating Whether to Refinance a Mortgage

Part XI: Getting Tax Help from Quicken

Estimating Capital Gains Taxes

Finding Ways to Lower Your Tax Bill

Qucken.com and Other Tax Resources on the Internet

Tagging Tax Categories So That You Can Generate Tax Reports

Tax Link Assistant: Assigning Categories to Lines on Income Tax Forms

Tax Planner: Estimating How Much in Taxes You Will Owe

Visiting Your Tax Center

Part XII: Tracking Loans, Liabilities, and Assets

Inventorying Your Possessions

Keeping Track of Assets

Tracking an Amortized Car or Home Loan

Tracking a Liability

Glossary of Financial Terms

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If you have Titanium Ebay from the same author, this book is just a cut and paste work with an extended chapter on consignment

eBay Consignment guide

Consignment and eBay can work together

Extremely helpful!

A must have resource for this business.

How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business
Skip McGrath
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Make big profits on eBay with no upfront investment!

Make thousands of dollars per week--with little or no financial risk--selling other people’s stuff on eBay. How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business explains how to locate and work with consignors and successfully deal in the goods they want to sell, including collectibles, retail store closeouts, estate items, corporate merchandise, and much more.

Find out how to get started selling on consignment, decide what kinds of items will be the most profitable, and set up your business. You’ll get sample contracts, forms, and flyers, as well as tips on creating a web site, marketing your business, and automating day-to-day tasks. Whether you want to supplement your income or become a registered eBay Trading Assistant, you’ll find everything you need in this helpful, step-by-step guide.

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If you have Titanium Ebay from the same author, this book is just a cut and paste work with an extended chapter on consignment.......2007-10-06

About 85% of the book is in Titanium Ebay, and in the exact same words. Its just cut and paste. If this is your first Skip McGraph book, this is excellent way to start.

I love McGraph style, and incisive info on the Ebay business. He tells you insider secrets of PowerSellers, and their tactics. But the best are the cases he makes, examples of what to buy, how to sell it and profit. He opens up your mind that almost everything sells.

eBay Consignment guide.......2007-06-14

Very good guide on what "to do" and "not to do" in starting the eBay consignment business. The author speaks from his own experience which I have found is the best way to learn.

Another Great book that stays close by on my shelf for reference

Consignment and eBay can work together.......2007-05-29

A good overview on a patient use of eBay. This works well establishing long-term relationships with regular customers. Consignment is also an entry for those individuals not wanting to be sales people but creates them into one comfortably. I recommend it as a part of your library. Try it for knowledge of another way to source your business.

Extremely helpful!.......2007-03-20

This book gives you all that you really need to know about running an ebay business including pitfalls and things to be aware of that you normally would have to learn the hard way. It is definately worth every penny I paid for it!!

A must have resource for this business........2006-12-05

Like many or most who have read this book, I was going through the investigative process of either starting or investing in an eBay consignment business. This book has a lot of useful ideas and is very practical. No eBay consignment business should be without it, as it will pay for itself many times over.

The Completely Revised How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style

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A Must Read for the Small Business Owner

The Completely Revised How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style
John H. Brown , and Kathryn B. Carroll
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Business Owners: Take Control of Exit Planning and Put Dollars in Your Pockets! Using this book, you will take control of the succession planning process. A step-by-step plan even the busiest owner can master leads straight to ultimate success: reaping top dollar when you sell or transfer your business. Real life case studies and progressive checklists show you how to: Create and preserve value within your business using tools you already have. Transfer Ownership and value as profitably as possible no matter who you plan to sell to. Integrate personal, financial and estate planning goals of the business to maximize profit and minimize tax liability. Recognizing the profitability of third party sales, John Brown has devoted two chapters of this Completely Revised Second Edition to the subject. Investment Banker and founder of JD Ford & Company, Joseph M. Durnford, explains the third party sale process and setting and achievable sale price.

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A Must Read for the Small Business Owner.......2006-07-19

As a CPA focusing on small business consulting, I recommend this book as a "must read" for any business owner that hopes to find a solution to his or her business succession concerns.

The bottom line is: If you want to get "something" for your business you need to start planning for your exit NOW and you need to read this book.

The Great Garage Sale Book: How to Run a Garage, Tag, Attic, Barn or Yard Sale (Authors Guild Backinprint.Com)

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This book will help the beginner from the first day of sales

The Great Garage Sale Book: How to Run a Garage, Tag, Attic, Barn or Yard Sale (Authors Guild Backinprint.Com)
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Her practical advice is lace with wit and humor. If you hanker to join the nouveau riche of the Garage Sale circuit, The Great Garage Sale Book is an invaluable how-to-guide.

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This book will help the beginner from the first day of sales.......2006-08-21

The very short and easy-to-read book had numerous suggestions for making your yard sale stand out from the crowd. It addresses advertising, types of items to sell and how to market and display them, pricing, sales day, and provides a countdown of things to do before the sale to reduce your stress load.

I would have marked it higher, except it dealt with topics irrelevant to yard sales in this area, like how to market antiques(hah!) and multi-day sales. I would have liked more specifics on how to price different types of items.

How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style

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How to Run Your Business So You Can Leave It in Style
John H. Brown , and Irv Sternberg
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Iain Maitland
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How To Run A Sale by Rick Segel

How to Run a Sale
Rick Segel
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The ONLY course on how to run a successful promotion or sale! Step-by-step, you'll learn all the elements that make sales work, including: how much you should markdown merchandise; what your store should/ should not look like during sales; how to avoid creating a drop in business after a sale event; which sale names are the best names to use; and how to create a pre-sale buzz and crowds.

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How To Run A Sale by Rick Segel.......2005-08-11

I waited for this book to be finished for almost 2 years. When I finally received the book, I devoured it in one day. Rick makes the principles in the book very easy to understand and he really speaks "retail" like nobody I've ever heard before.
I modified the letter found on page 96 for three major promotions in my retail shoe store and all three have been huge successes. Our last sale resulted in sales over $10,000.00 in one day and that was without giving away the store!
I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is in retail and wants to learn some new and incredible ways to run a sale in their store. It will be one of the best investments you could ever make!

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A great resource...

How to run a sales meeting,
Edward J Hegarty
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A great resource..........2007-06-25

I speak around the world on lead generation and marketing strategy. Edward did an outstanding job crafting "How to Run A Sales Meeting" to give you a roadmap at mastering sales meetings.

Properly running s Sales Meeting is one the important skills a Sales Manager can have, yet few do it really well. While this book is not the definitive bible, it does provide some great insights.

Joe Heller, Trust Cycle Selling

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Sales reports, records, and systems: How to run a sales office
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How to run successful sales meetings.(sales clinic): An article from: Printing News
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This digital document is an article from Printing News, published by Thomson Gale on January 8, 2007. The length of the article is 979 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How to run successful sales meetings.(sales clinic)
Author: George Reinfeld
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Date: January 8, 2007
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