QuickBooks Ultimate Lesson Guide 2011

Poulos, an accountant, a national speaker, and a financial talk-show host, provides a package of learning materials for the popular QuickBooks accounting program. He presents in 16 lessons the basic concepts of QuickBooks, including setting up a new company, entering and paying bills, working with foreign currencies, and doing payroll. Most of the lessons feature Poulos in front of a screen at the head of two long tables addressing about a dozen students. The scenes are interspersed with complementary close-up screens of the QuickBooks program in action. Poulos, who is a forceful and knowledgeable instructor, mixes strong opinions with humor to hammer home his points. Some of the later lessons consist solely of QuickBooks screens with voice-over explanations. Included with the package is a computer CD with review questions, a 140-day trial copy of QuickBooks Premier Accountant 2011 with sample files, and a copy of the textbook QuickBooks Learning Guide 2011. The DVDs are best viewed with simultaneous access to a computer running the included QuickBooks training software. Viewers with some accounting background but new to QuickBooks would find their investment of time and money rewarded by these thorough presentations.—Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ. Lib., Erie, PA