QuickBooks 2022 All-in-One For Dummies. Stephen L. Nelson

Introduction

      Few people read introductions to reference books, so I’ll make this very brief. I just want to tell you which versions of QuickBooks this book works for, what’s in the reference, what it assumes about your existing skills, and what conventions I use.

About This Book

      The desktop version of QuickBooks comes in several flavors, including QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. This reference talks about QuickBooks 21 Enterprise Solutions, which is a superset of QuickBooks 2022 Premier and QuickBooks 2022 Pro. If you’re using QuickBooks Self-Employed or QuickBooks Online, you shouldn’t use this book. Instead, you should check out QuickBooks Online For Dummies by David Ringstrom.

      On the other hand, even though this book is written for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, if you’re using QuickBooks Premier or QuickBooks Pro, don’t worry. You’re just fine with this book. And don’t freak out if you’re using some version of QuickBooks that’s very similar to QuickBooks 2022, such as QuickBooks 2021 or QuickBooks 2020. Although this reference is about QuickBooks 2022, it also works just fine for the 2020, 2021, and probably 2023 versions of QuickBooks because QuickBooks is a very mature product at this point. The changes from one year to the next are modest. This means that if you’re using QuickBooks 2021, stuff may look a little different if you closely compare the images in this book with what you see on your screen, but the information in this reference will still apply to your situation.

      Note, too, that specialty versions of QuickBooks, such as QuickBooks Accountant’s Edition and QuickBooks Contractor, also work almost identically to QuickBooks Premier.

      To make the best use of your time and energy, you should know about the conventions I use in this book: