How to Succeed with QuickBooks

Before wrapping up the little why, what, and how discussion of this chapter, we ought to provide a handful of ideas about how to make your experience with QuickBooks a successful one.

Budget wisely, Grasshopper

Here’s the first suggestion: Please plan on spending at least a few hours to get the QuickBooks software installed, set up, and running. We know you don’t really want to do that. You have a business to run, a family to take care of, a dog to walk, and so on.

But here’s the reality sandwich you probably need to take a big bite of: it takes half an hour just to get the software installed on your computer. (This installation isn’t complicated, of course. You’ll mostly just sit there, sipping tea or whatever.)