Chapter 2: Preparing Financial Statements and Reports 303
Chapter 3: Preparing a Budget 327
Chapter 4: Using Activity-Based Costing 341
Chapter 5: Setting Up Project and Job Costing Systems 357
Book 5: Financial Management 369
Chapter 1: Ratio Analysis 371
Chapter 2: Economic Value Added Analysis 389
Chapter 3: Capital Budgeting in a Nutshell 403
Book 6: Business Plans 419
Chapter 1: Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis 421
Chapter 2: Creating a Business Plan Forecast 441
Chapter 3: Writing a Business Plan 479
Book 7: Care and Maintenance 493
Chapter 1: Administering QuickBooks 4950
Chapter 2: Protecting Your Data 515
Chapter 3: Troubleshooting 535
Book 8: Appendixes 541
Appendix A: A Crash Course in Excel 543
Appendix B: Glossary of Accounting and Financial Terms 559
Index 589
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