Using QuickBooks for Nonprofit Organizations, Associations and Clubs (The Accountant Beside You)

I just wish I had bought this book before I bought QuickBooks premier Nonprofit 2014 for the first time since she tells you where to buy it (as a nonprofit) at a huge discount though I still got a good price at amazon. I have absolutely NO accounting or money management background other than our household bank account. I am a physicist and use excel and have been talked into being treasurer for my child's band booster club with a $250K yearly budget. Money math is VERY different from "real" math. This book has been invaluable in explaining how to set things up properly, what it all "means" and why you have to do it, and how to maintain good practices.

I have recently taken over as treasurer of a town wide booster group. The books have not been kept well and I am, in large part, recreating the wheel! I have a degree in management but haven't used QuickBooks before. Could I have figured if out on my own? Maybe, but with a lot more time, frustration and effort.The screen shots, explanations, and tips are excellent in helping to clarify the how's and whys.I also had a small issue uploading a chart of accounts (you can develop and enter your own, but I chose to purchase her download for convenience) and sent a question via the website. I received a very helpful response the same evening.Definitely recommend.

London's book has been very helpful to me. As a computer literate person taking over the treasurer job for a non-profit, with zero knowledge of QuickBooks, I really needed a very fundamental book to help understand QB. This book fills the bill. I've learned enough to begin the job, and, I believe, this book will allow me to put a lot more of QB to use.

The layout is difficult to read. The information is helpful especially on how to track restricted donations.

I bought this because it had such good reviews. It has been literally useless to me. All the information available in this book is already available either from QuickBooks support or free online from other users. The layout is hard to read and much of the time they didn’t bother with high resolution graphics so you could actually read the text. Most of all she doesn’t provide an overall picture, which is what anyone needs before they get started. That’s what you can’t get online and she fails to provide any kind of braid picture on the accounting itself, the software program, or sections of the program.

Not as helpful as I would like. Easily outdated info. Steps not clear enough. Took me hours to figure stuff out, and I have an MBA...

It was very helpful and written in a very user friendly manner.

Just what I needed