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Quicken 2015 For Dummies

by Stephen L. Nelson

Lets you harness the power of this practical financial tool to manage bills, reconcile bank accounts, track investments, and more! This title demystifies the software's features for tracking everyday finances, managing investments, and evaluating the tax implications of financial decisions.

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Take control of your personal finances with this popular, easy guide! Quicken is the country's most popular and highly recommended personal finance software, and with Quicken For Dummies, you can harness the power of this practical financial tool to manage bills, reconcile bank accounts, track investments, and much more! Personal finance expert and CPA Stephen L. Nelson lends his expertise to this accessible, easy-to-read guide, which has been fully updated to reflect the new features of Quicken available in its newest version. You can quickly learn how to use Quicken to record credit card transactions, track mortgages and other liabilities, minimize taxes, maximize savings, maintain detailed records, and build a solid foundation for creating better financial plans.

  • Covers updated features in the newest version of the increasingly popular Quicken software
  • Empowers readers to fight the bad habits and decisions that lead to large debts and minimal or nonexistent savings
  • Demystifies the software's features for tracking everyday finances, managing investments, and evaluating the tax implications of financial decisions
  • Offers invaluable advice and expertise from author Stephen L. Nelson, a recognized authority on personal finance
Every step toward better finances is a step in the right direction. Let Quicken For Dummies start your journey toward increased savings, lowered debt, and a more secure financial future.

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Learn to: Maintain detailed financial records Manage your bills, save money, and create a budget Reduce your debt and maximize your investments Categorize deductions and plan for tax time Take control of your finances the Quicken way with this easy to use, complete guide! If you're looking to get your finances organized, but don't know where to start, look no further than Quicken 2015 For Dummies . With this easy-to-understand guide, you'll discover how to set up accounts, track income and expenses, monitor your investments, pay the bills on time, and take the sting out of tax time with perfect organization! Set up shop -- dive right into Quicken with tips on installing and setting up the software and adding bank accounts The big picture -- get a complete view of what Quicken is, what it can do, and how you can add and modify categories and tags to keep track of your unique financial situation Budgeting basics -- figure out whether you need a budget, get tips for personal and business budgets, and get set up in Quicken Investment tracking -- keep track of all your investments in Quicken, with detailed cost information, unrealized gains reporting, and tax information Taxes, taxes, taxes -- make tax time less taxing with Quicken, featuring all of your financial information neatly packed into one system Open the book and find: Tips on installing Quicken and setting up accounts How to use Quicken to track and organize your finances Tricks to overcoming typical software setup problems The lowdown on setting up and tracking budgets How to add, remove, and modify account categories How the features of Quicken can make you a "power user" Investment tracking tips to keep your portfolio in order

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Learn to: Maintain detailed financial records Manage your bills, save money, and create a budget Reduce your debt and maximize your investments Categorize deductions and plan for tax time Take control of your finances the Quicken way with this easy to use, complete guide! If you're looking to get your finances organized, but don't know where to start, look no further than Quicken 2015 For Dummies . With this easy-to-understand guide, you'll discover how to set up accounts, track income and expenses, monitor your investments, pay the bills on time, and take the sting out of tax time with perfect organization! Set up shop -- dive right into Quicken with tips on installing and setting up the software and adding bank accounts The big picture -- get a complete view of what Quicken is, what it can do, and how you can add and modify categories and tags to keep track of your unique financial situation Budgeting basics -- figure out whether you need a budget, get tips for personal and business budgets, and get set up in Quicken Investment tracking -- keep track of all your investments in Quicken, with detailed cost information, unrealized gains reporting, and tax information Taxes, taxes, taxes -- make tax time less taxing with Quicken, featuring all of your financial information neatly packed into one system Open the book and find: Tips on installing Quicken and setting up accounts How to use Quicken to track and organize your finances Tricks to overcoming typical software setup problems The lowdown on setting up and tracking budgets How to add, remove, and modify account categories How the features of Quicken can make you a "power user" Investment tracking tips to keep your portfolio in order

Author Biography

Stephen L. Nelson is an author and CPA. He provides accounting, business advisory, tax planning, and tax preparation services to small businesses. He is the author of over 100 books, including all editions of QuickBooks For Dummies and Quicken For Dummies, which have sold more than 2 million copies.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Three Foolish Assumptions 2 Beyond the Book 3 Special Icons 4 Where to Next? 4 Part I: Zen, Quicken, and the Big Picture 5 Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop 7 Installing and Starting Quicken 8 Finishing Setup If You've Used Quicken Before 9 Finishing Setup If You've Not Used Quicken Before 10 Already a Quicken user? 10 Are you new to Quicken? 11 Registering Quicken 11 Describing Your Banking 12 Slogging Through More Setup Stuff 16 Steve's Overview 19 Using Quicken Qcards 19 Starting Quicken for the second time 19 Using the Accounts bar 19 Navigating with tabs 20 Solving Tricky Setup Problems 20 Using the Quicken Mobile App 20 Did somebody say Macintosh? 20 The mysterious case of the missing Quicken data files 21 Migrating from Microsoft Money 21 Chapter 2: Introduction to the Big Picture 23 Boiling Quicken Down to Its Essence 23 Tracking tax deductions 24 Monitoring spending 24 Printing checks (and other forms) 25 Tracking bank accounts, credit cards, and other stuff 26 Planning your personal finances 26 Banking online 27 Setting Up Additional Accounts 27 Setting up another banking account 27 Hey, Quicken, I want to use that account! 31 Whipping Your Category Lists into Shape 32 Subcategories yikes, what are they? 37 Category groups double yikes! 38 Four tips on categorization 38 Ch-ch-changing a category list 39 Want to Play Tag? 43 Chapter 3: Maximum Fun, Maximum Profits 45 Should You Even Bother with a Budget? 45 Serious Advice about Your Secret Plan 46 Your personal Secret Plan 46 Two things that really goof up Secret Plans 47 Setting Up a Secret Plan 50 Introducing the Budgets window 50 Reviewing the options 55 Reviewing your budget 56 What to do after you enter your budget 56 Part II: The Absolute Basics 57 Chapter 4: Checkbook on a Computer 59 Getting Started 59 Finding Your Checkbook 60 Recording Checks 61 Entering a check in the register 61 Changing a check you've entered 64 Packing more checks into the register 64 Sorting transactions 65 Working with a kooky (and clever) little thing named QuickFill 66 Recording Deposits 67 Entering a deposit into the register 67 Changing a deposit you've already entered 69 Recording Account Transfers 69 Entering an account transfer 70 Working with the other half of the transfer 71 Changing a transfer you've already entered 72 Splitting Transactions 72 Steps for splitting a check 73 Editing and deleting split categories 76 Steps for splitting deposits and transfers 77 Deleting and Voiding Transactions 77 The Big Register Phenomenon 78 Moving through a big register 78 Finding that darn transaction 78 Pop-Up Calendars and Calculators 83 Attaching Flags, Notes, and Images 85 Chapter 5: Printing 101 87 Printing Checks 87 What if you make a mistake entering a check? 90 Printing a check you've entered 91 What if you discover a mistake after you print the check? 94 A few words about check printing 95 Printing a Check Register 96 Chapter 6: Online and In Charge 99 What are Online Account Access and Online Bill Payment? 99 Wise Whys and Wherefores 100 Banking with Online Account Access and Online Bill Payment 101 Finding an online bank — online 102 Paying bills 103 Transferring money between accounts 105 Updating your Quicken accounts 105 Chapter 7: Reports, Charts, and Other Cool Tools 107 Creating and Printing Reports 107 Printing the facts, and nothing but the facts 108 Reviewing standard reports 112 Finding the report you want 118 Going to the printing dog-and-pony show 118 Editing and rearranging reports 121 Charts Only Look Tricky 124 Customizing Your Reports 125 Chapter 8: A Matter of Balance 127 Selecting the Account You Want to Balance 127 Balancing a Bank Account 128 Telling Quicken, "Hey, man, I want to balance this account" 128 Giving Quicken the bank's information 129 Explaining the difference between your records and the bank's records 131 Ten Things You Should Do If Your Account Doesn't Balance 135 Make sure that you're working with the right account.135 Look for transactions that the bank has recorded but you haven't 135 Look for reversed transactions 135 Look for a transaction that's equal to half the difference 136 Look for a transaction that's equal to the difference 136 Check for transposed numbers 136 Have someone else look over your work 137 Look out for multiple errors 137 Try again next month (and maybe the month after that) 137 Get in your car, drive to the bank, and beg for help 138 Chapter 9: Housekeeping for Quicken 139 Backing Up is Hard to Do 139 Backing up the quick-and-dirty way 139 Deciding when to back up 142 Losing your Quicken data after you've backed up 143 Losing your Quicken data when you haven't backed up 145 Working with Files, Files, and More Files 146 Setting up a new file 146 Flip-flopping between files 148 When files get too big for their own good 149 Using and Abusing Passwords 152 Setting up a file password 153 Changing a file password 155 Sanitizing a File 156 Chapter 10: Compound Interest Magic and Other Mysteries 157 Noodling Around with Your Investments 157 Using the Investment Savings Calculator 158 Trying to become a millionaire 159 The Often-Unbearable Burden of Debt 161 Using the Loan Calculator to figure payments 161 Calculating loan balances 163 The Refinance Calculator 164 The Retirement Calculator 165 The dilemma in a nutshell 165 Retirement planning calculations 167 If you're now bummed out about retirement 170 Retirement roulette 171 Cost of College 171 The College Calculator 171 If you're now bummed out about college costs 173 Planning for Taxes 174 The Other Planning Tools 177 Part III: Home Finances 179 Chapter 11: Credit Cards, Petty Cash, and PayPal 181 Tracking a Credit Card 181 Setting Up a Credit Card Account 182 Adding a credit card account 182 Selecting a credit card account so that you can use it 186 Entering Credit Card Transactions 186 Touring the credit card register 187 Recording a credit card charge 187 Changing charges you've already entered 189 Paying credit card bills 189 Reconciling That Crazy Account 190 What the nasty credit card company says 191 Ouch! Did I really spend that much? 193 If you record a transaction wrong, do this 194 Oh, that explains the difference 194 If you're ready to finish 195 If you want to postpone the inevitable 195 Paying the bill as part of the reconciliation 196 The Online Banking Hoopla 197 Should you even bother? 197 How to use Online Account Access with your credit card 197 Petty Cash and Mad Money 198 Adding a cash account 198 Tracking cash inflows and outflows 199 Recording checks you cash instead of deposit 200 Updating cash balances 201 PayPal Can Be Quicken's Friend 202 Chapter 12: Other People's Money 203 Should You Bother to Track Your Debts? 203 How Do You Get Started? 204 Setting up a liability account for an amortized loan 204 Fixing loan stuff 210 Delivering a Pound of Flesh (Also Known as Making a Payment) 214 Recording the payment 215 Handling mortgage escrow accounts 216 Your Principal-Interest Breakdown Won't Be Right 219 So you can't change the world 219 Slightly smarter adjustments 220 Automatic Payments 220 Scheduling a bill reminder 221 Scheduling income and transfer reminders 223 Another way to schedule transactions 223 Checking out the Calendar 226 Chapter 13: Tracking Tax-Deferred Investments 227 Deciding to Use Investment Features 227 Are your investments tax-deferred? 228 Are you a mutual fund fanatic? 228 Some investors don't need Quicken 229 Many investors do want Quicken 229 Tracking a Tax-Deferred Investment 231 Setting up a tax-deferred investment account 231 Recording your initial investment 236 Buying investments 240 Recording your profits 243 Selling investments 244 Correcting a mistake 246 Working with slightly tricky investment transactions 247 Reconciling an account 249 Trying reports 250 Using menu commands and other stuff 250 Updating Securities Prices 250 Chapter 14: Stocks and Bonds 253 Setting Up a Brokerage Account 253 Recording your initial share balances 254 Working with brokerage accounts 254 Setting up security lists 254 Working with cash 256 Recording other not-so-tricky transactions 263 More Quick Stuff about Brokerage Accounts 265 Monitoring and updating securities values 266 Adjusting errors 266 A few words on the Investing tab's other tools 268 Part IV: Very Serious Business 271 Chapter 15: Mind Your Business 273 Setting Up a Business the Quicken Way 273 Describing your business(es) 274 Designing business invoices 275 Identifying invoice items 276 Working with Customers 278 Setting up a Customer Invoices account 278 Invoicing your customers 279 Printing invoices 281 Recording customer payments 282 Issuing credits and making refunds 283 Business Bookkeeping Whistles and Bells 284 Jobs and projects 284 Using finance charges, estimates, and statements 284 Managing vendor bills 285 Vehicle Mileage Tracker 285 Quicken Dirty Payroll 286 Getting ready for payroll 286 Setting up the wages expense category 286 Setting up the payroll tax expense category 287 Getting the taxes stuff right 288 Depositing taxes 291 Tax deposit tips 293 Filing quarterly payroll tax returns 295 Computing annual returns and wage statements 295 Doing the state payroll taxes thing 296 Chapter 16: Managing Rentals 297 Describing a Rental Property 297 Describing Tenants 300 Recording Tenant Rent Payments 301 Recording Rental Expenses 302 Tracking Rental Property Profits 304 Part V: The Part of Tens 305 Chapter 17: (Slightly More Than) Ten Questions I'm Frequently Asked about Quicken 307 What are Quicken's Best Features? 308 Does Quicken Work for a Corporation? 309 What Happens to Stockholders' Equity in Quicken? 310 Does Quicken Work for a Partnership? 310 Can I Use Quicken for More Than One Business? 311 What Kinds of Businesses Shouldn't Use Quicken? 311 Can I Use Quicken for Real Estate Investing? 313 Can I Use Quicken Retroactively? 314 Can I Do Payroll with Quicken? 315 Can I Prepare Invoices? 315 Can I Import Data from an Old Accounting System? 315 What Do You Think about Quicken? 316 Chapter 18: (Almost) Ten Tips on How Not to Become a Millionaire 317 Ignore the Fact That You Can Build Wealth by Investing in Ownership Investments and Earning Average Returns 318 Ignore the Fact That You Can Get Much, and Maybe Most, of the Money from Tax Savings and Employer Matching 320 Don't Tap Your Computer's Power to Develop Wealth-Building Insights 321 Give Up, Because It's Too Late to Start Anyway 322 Get Entangled in at Least One "Get-Rich-Quick" Scheme 323 Fake It with False Affluence 324 Give In to the First Big Temptation of Wealth Building 325 Give In to the Second Big Temptation of Wealth Building 325 Chapter 19: (Almost) Ten Troubleshooting Tips 327 Tactics #1 and #2: Use the Quicken Help File and This Book 327 Tactic #3: Visit the Quicken Product Support Website 328 Tactics #4 and #5: Check the Microsoft or the Hardware Vendor Product Support Website 328 Tactic #6: Contact Intuit Directly 329 Tactic #7: Try the Quicken Live Community 329 Tactic #8: Install and Use Antivirus Software 330 Tactic #9: When All Else Fails 330 Part VI: Appendixes 331 Appendix A: Quick-and-Dirty Windows 8.1 333 What is Windows 8.1? 333 Starting Windows 8.1 334 Starting Programs 335 Choosing Commands from Menus 336 Choosing commands with the furry little rodent 337 Choosing commands by using Alt+key combinations 338 Context menus or shortcut menus 339 Using shortcut-key combinations 339 Disabled commands 339 Working with Dialog Boxes 340 Text boxes 340 Check boxes 342 Tabs 342 Option buttons 342 Command buttons 342 List boxes 343 Stopping Quicken in Windows 8.1 344 A Yelp for Help 345 The Getting Started Guide command 345 The Quicken Help command 345 The View Guidance command 347 The Quicken Live Community command 347 The Quicken Support command 347 The Submit Feedback on Quicken command 347 The Privacy Preferences command 347 The Log Files command 347 The About Quicken command 348 The Add Tools commands 348 The Register Quicken command 348 Quitting Windows 8.1 348 Appendix B: Glossary of Business, Financial, and Computer Terms 349 Index 359

Long Description

Learn to: Maintain detailed financial records Manage your bills, save money, and create a budget Reduce your debt and maximize your investments Categorize deductions and plan for tax time Take control of your finances the Quicken way with this easy to use, complete guide! If you re looking to get your finances organized, but don t know where to start, look no further than Quicken 2015 For Dummies . With this easy-to-understand guide, you ll discover how to set up accounts, track income and expenses, monitor your investments, pay the bills on time, and take the sting out of tax time with perfect organization! Set up shop dive right into Quicken with tips on installing and setting up the software and adding bank accounts The big picture get a complete view of what Quicken is, what it can do, and how you can add and modify categories and tags to keep track of your unique financial situation Budgeting basics figure out whether you need a budget, get tips for personal and business budgets, and get set up in Quicken Investment tracking keep track of all your investments in Quicken, with detailed cost information, unrealized gains reporting, and tax information Taxes, taxes, taxes make tax time less taxing with Quicken, featuring all of your financial information neatly packed into one system Open the book and find: Tips on installing Quicken and setting up accounts How to use Quicken to track and organize your finances Tricks to overcoming typical software setup problems The lowdown on setting up and tracking budgets How to add, remove, and modify account categories How the features of Quicken can make you a power user Investment tracking tips to keep your portfolio in order

Feature

Introduction 1 Part I: Zen, Quicken, and the Big Picture 5 Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop 7 Chapter 2: Introduction to the Big Picture 23 Chapter 3: Maximum Fun, Maximum Profits 45 Part II: The Absolute Basics 57 Chapter 4: Checkbook on a Computer 59 Chapter 5: Printing 101 87 Chapter 6: Online and In Charge 99 Chapter 7: Reports, Charts, and Other Cool Tools 107 Chapter 8: A Matter of Balance 127 Chapter 9: Housekeeping for Quicken 139 Chapter 10: Compound Interest Magic and Other Mysteries 157 Part III: Home Finances 179 Chapter 11: Credit Cards, Petty Cash, and PayPal 181 Chapter 12: Other People's Money 203 Chapter 13: Tracking Tax-Deferred Investments 227 Chapter 14: Stocks and Bonds 253 Part IV: Very Serious Business 271 Chapter 15: Mind Your Business 273 Chapter 16: Managing Rentals 297 Part V: The Part of Tens 305 Chapter 17: (Slightly More Than) Ten Questions I'm Frequently Asked about Quicken 307 Chapter 18: (Almost) Ten Tips on How Not to Become a Millionaire 317 Chapter 19: (Almost) Ten Troubleshooting Tips 327 Part VI: Appendixes 331 Appendix A: Quick-and-Dirty Windows 8.1 333 Appendix B: Glossary of Business, Financial, and Computer Terms 349 Index 359

Details ISBN1118920139 Pages 384 Language English Year 2014 ISBN-10 1118920139 ISBN-13 9781118920138 Format Paperback Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 332.02400285536 Media Book Edition 1st Illustrations black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures Short Title QUICKEN 2015 FOR DUMMIES Series For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback) Publication Date 2014-11-14 UK Release Date 2014-11-14 NZ Release Date 2014-10-01 Author Stephen L. Nelson Imprint For Dummies Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2014-11-14 AU Release Date 2014-09-25

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  • Book Title: Quicken 2015 For Dummies
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  • Language: English
  • Publication Name: Quicken 2015 for Dummies
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  • Author: Stephen L. Nelson
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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