Learn the essentials of working with QuickBooks Pro. Find out how to create and back up your company's QuickBooks file and quickly set up shop—adding your banking information, credit cards, and historical data to the chart of accounts. You'll also learn how to set up your customers, vendors, employees, and inventory items. Author Jess Stratton then takes you through the day-to-day operations that keep your business running: creating estimates, invoices, and sales receipts; processing payments; recording deposits; and printing checks. Plus, learn how to run reports, find data about your business, and close the books, with end-of-year preparations.