The text uses a highly effective three-step approach to streamline your learning:

1. Chapter Tutorials. Providing numerous screen shots and detailed instructions, chapters in Computer Accounting with QuickBooks are designed as tutorials for the student to initially learn the accounting software features. All chapters are based on realistic, virtual company cases to enhance your understanding of the business environment in which QuickBooks is used. YouTube videos @ www.myquickbooks.me reinforce chapter tutorials.

2. Learning Activities. To improve long-term retention of student software skills and mastery of QuickBooks, learning activities are included at the end of the chapters. Designed with fewer instructions to test the understanding and, when needed, to develop skills at quickly seeking out additional information to complete tasks, the activities consist of exercises, projects and web quests. JIT Learning, the ability to seek out information as needed, is an increasingly important skill in a rapidly changing business environment. Computer Accounting with QuickBooks is designed to seamlessly facilitate your development of this crucial skill. In addition, the virtual cases challenge you to apply and develop both software and problem-solving skills.

3. Reflection. Reflection improves learning and retention. A reflection exercise, A Wish and A Star, appears at the end of each chapter to highlight what the student has learned.

New with QuickBooks 2015, we are pleased to include a Quick Guide in Section 3 to streamline your review for the QuickBooks User Certification examination.

Section I: Exploring QuickBooks with Rock Castle Construction

1 Quick Tour of QuickBooks

2 Customizing QuickBooks and the Chart of Accounts

3 Banking

4 Customers and Sales

5 Vendors, Purchases, and Inventory

6 Employees and Payroll

7 Reports and Graphs

Section II: QuickBooks Accounting for Entrepreneurs

8 New Company Setup

9 Accounting for a Service Company

10 Merchandising Corporation: Sales, Purchases, and Inventory

11 Merchandising Corporation: Payroll

12 Advanced QuickBooks Features for Accountants

13 QuickBooks Live Consulting Project

14 QuickBooks Online Accountant

Section III: Quick Guide

QuickBooks Setup

QuickBooks Utilities and General Product Knowledge

List Management

Items

Sales (Customer Transactions)

Purchases (Vendor Transactions)

Payroll (Employee Transactions)

Reports

Basic Accounting

Customization/Saving Time and Shortcuts

Section IV: QuickBooks Extras

Appendix A Install & Register QuickBooks Software

Appendix B Back Up & Restore QuickBooks Files

Appendix C QuickBooks Issue Resolution

Appendix D Go Digital with QuickBooks

Appendix E QuickBooks & My Mac

Appendix F www.myquickbooks.me