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Inside the back cover of this book you'll find National Estimator, a CD-ROM with all the cost estimates in the book plus an easy-to-use estimating program for Windows. National Estimator works just like a book. Page through the entire book one screen at a time or use the electronic index to search (in seconds) for what you need. Then select the cost estimates you want and copy them to your estimate with the touch of a key. It's quick and easy (costs are extended and columns totaled automatically). And you can change any price or quantity, including subtotals, and add the markup of your choice. Job Cost Wizard Turns estimates into invoices and exports both to QuickBooks. Export entire estimates or invoices to track job costs for each item or category in your estimate. Then compare estimated and actual costs for each part of any job. Handles progressive billing (invoices for each part of the job) with QuickBooks Pro. Requires Win 95 or higher. Introduction According to a recent national survey, more contractors use QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks than all other accounting programs combined. And for a good reason. QuickBooks Pro excels at all the routine paperwork in a construction office: writing checks, keeping track of you bank balance, sending out invoices and statements, creating up-to-the-minute profit and loss statements for the month, year or by job, writing payroll checks, paying suppliers and subcontractors, tracking job costs, comparing estimated and actual costs for each job, and much more. But there’s a lot to learn in QuickBooks Pro. And converting to a new accounting system can be a complex and confusing task, even if you have a strong background in accounting and plenty of time to install a new system. That’s why this book was written – because most construction pros aren’t accounting experts and have more important work to do at the job site. Book Info Contractor’s Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2000 will walk you step-by-step through QuickBooks Pro’s detailed setup procedure and then explain item-by-item how you should be using QuickBooks Pro everyday in a construction office. In days, rather then weeks, you’ll create a first-rate accounting system that’s an asset to your company. In this "fully-loaded" manual you’ll find simple well-illustrated instructions for customizing the QuickBooks Pro setup. It shows what each screen on your monitor should look like, and explains every choice you need to make and every button you need to click on. But this isn’t just a book about QuickBooks Pro. It includes a trial version of QuickBooks Pro and two programs you’ll want to use when estimating costs with QuickBooks Pro. Here’s what’s on the CD-ROM in the back of this manual: QuickBooks Pro 2000 file preconfigured for a construction company. The file has a chart of accounts already entered, plus a complete set of memorized reports. Just plug in your own company data – venders, subs, customers, etc. And at the click of a mouse, you’ll have the information needed to run your jobs. National Estimator – an easy-to-use-estimating program with over 100 pages of construction cost estimating data for general contractors. Dozens of other databases are available. (QuickBooks Pro doesn’t come with any estimating data.) Job Cost Wizard – converts your National Estimator Estimates into QuickBooks Pro estimates so you can create and send invoices, track job costs (charge every check to a cost category in your estimate) and compare actual and estimated costs. You’ll know exactly where you made and lost money on every job. Blank construction forms you can open on your computer (with nearly any of the popular word processing programs) customize, fill out, print and send to customers and subcontractors. With this book, QuickBooks Pro 2000, National Estimator, and Job Cost Wizard (all included in this package) you have at your fingertips all the financial tools needed to keep a company running strong and in the black. Just add your own company data. About The Authors Karen Mitchell, Craig Savage, and Jim Erwin are contractors, accountants and QuickBooks Pro experts. They’ve spent years studying and simplifying the instillation of QuickBooks Pro in construction offices. Karen, Craig and Jim tour the country giving accounting seminars to professional groups, consulting with individual contractors and actually setting up QuickBooks Pro for builders. They’ll help you get excellent results with QuickBooks Pro the same way they’ve helped hundreds of other construction professionals.
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