Save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the features of QuickBooks. This handy guide takes you step-by-step through everything that's important for an engineering firm - customers and projects, employees and payroll.This manual is low on "accounting speak" and high on realistic examples. QuickBooks doesn't use terms like debits and credits. Instead, it uses words that are easy to understand, such as checks, estimates, bills, time cards and deposits. Follow our examples and you will have an effective accounting system that provides all the information any successful engineer needs, in the shortest time possible.