Download or read book Simple/Smart Fixed Asset Handling in QuickBooks written by Mark Wilsdorf and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about the Simple/Smart method, a new way to keep fixed asset records entirely within QuickBooks without purchasing any additional software or services. It shows how to set up Inventory Part Items in a special way and use them for keeping track of fixed assets, with step-by-step examples for how to handle all kinds of fixed asset situations: purchases, trade-ins, swaps, sales, group asset purchases and sales, salvage/disposals, depreciation expense, loans and financing, and more...without ever using Journal Entries, debits, or credits, and without purchasing additional software. It also shows how to set up standard QuickBooks reports to provide the reports everyone needs for asset information and income tax preparation.Calculating and entering depreciation expense is bothersome for most QuickBooks users. This book makes it a breeze, with complete instructions for using a free spreadsheet template downloadable from the publisher's Web site. What's more, it shows three different ways to import depreciation expense transactions into QuickBooks from the template--reducing the job from hours to minutes.This book is part of the QuickBooks Cookbook¿ series, which gets its name from the way information is presented: as step-by-step guides for entering transactions or solving specific QuickBooks problems, much like the recipes in a cookbook. Written in plain, simple language and loaded with screenshots, the series is designed "from the ground up" as a quick source of answers to your QuickBooks accounting questions.