Acknowledgments

Another year’s edition of the book could not have happened with the expertise of this year’s technical editor, MB Raimondi. She is both a friend and a QuickBooks expert.

Her knowledge of QuickBooks helped to ensure that the details were accurate.

Being a technical editor is not a “glamorous” job at all. The technical editor responsibilities include being completely familiar with the subject of the book, testing each documented step for technical accuracy, and verifying that the proper terminology is used for the specific audience.

These are just a few of the requirements. The technical editor must then communicate the change needed to the author in a clear and concise manner, while allowing the author the final word. Often weeks can go by between these reviews. Additionally, we write the original content during the beta release of the software, and then retest when the final software is released.

A big thank you again to William Murphy, a certified QuickBooks consultant, whose continued review and edits helped to define the content for Chapter 17, “Managing Your QuickBooks Database.”

I appreciate Charlie Russell and our many late-night emails about the new features and how they work. Charlie was instrumental in his help to learn about and document QuickBooks Enterprise features included in this edition.

Thanks to the entire Intuit Product Development Team who continues to keep me advised of new product features and helps me collect information during the beta testing of each new year’s release of QuickBooks.

To all my QuickBooks peers in the many forums I belong to, thank you! You all play a part in this book, however unknowingly. In these forums I read your questions and answers and find it helps to guide what content I should include in the book.

For my family and friends who encouraged me to not lose sight of the goal—to share my knowledge of QuickBooks in this one-of-a-kind reference book, I could not have done this without your support.

Last, but very important, a big thanks to my acquisitions editor at Que, Michelle Newcomb, who has after all these years become a friend and who patiently works to keep me on schedule. Well, she tries anyway. And to the team at Que, including Ginny Munroe, development editor, who worked very closely with me to simplify the editing process, and Barbara Hacha, copy editor, who made sure my content was grammatically accurate.

—Laura