Nonprofit Guide to QuickBooks

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Summary: A useless book
Review: Fourteen pages (including front and back covers) of totally useless information. I was looking for a book that would help me with non-profit fund accounting using QuickBooks -- and this is not it. When the first page (of the 12 information pages) is taken up with showing the author in the lotus position, you know you have just wasted your money. The book has some colorful, simple minded flow charts -- and that is about it.

Rating:
Summary: An elementary solution to a complex issue...
Review: OK...maybe I am expecting too much. I am a consultant who has non-profit clients as well as for-profit clients. I was looking for a book I could refer to non-profits to help their accounting personnel through the for-profit to non-profit transition.

I found the book extremely elementary. It is more a flowchart of procedures than a book of methodology. For example, there is very little explanation of accounting principles behind the flowchart instructions. I was especially looking for a better explanantion of setting up fund centers by using the class options. It simply is not designed to teach... only to preach.

I wish someone had reviewed the item prior to my purchasing it, then maybe I would have made a more informed choice.

Rating:
Summary: An elementary solution to a complex issue...
Review: OK...maybe I am expecting too much. I am a consultant who has non-profit clients as well as for-profit clients. I was looking for a book I could refer to non-profits to help their accounting personnel through the for-profit to non-profit transition.

I found the book extremely elementary. It is more a flowchart of procedures than a book of methodology. For example, there is very little explanation of accounting principles behind the flowchart instructions. I was especially looking for a better explanantion of setting up fund centers by using the class options. It simply is not designed to teach... only to preach.

I wish someone had reviewed the item prior to my purchasing it, then maybe I would have made a more informed choice.

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Summary: Don't Bother!
Review: You won't get any more info from this book than you would from the user's guide that comes with Quickbooks. It is not even a book but a sort of flip chart with no explanations of why you would do things a certain way. Useless!