Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Three Foolish Assumptions -- Beyond the Book -- Special Icons -- Where to Next? -- Part I: Zen, Quicken, and the Big Picture -- Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop -- Installing and Starting Quicken -- Finishing Setup If You've Used Quicken Before -- Finishing Setup If You've Not Used Quicken Before -- Describing Your Banking -- Slogging Through More Setup Stuff -- Steve's Overview -- Solving Tricky Setup Problems -- Chapter 2: Introduction to the Big Picture -- Boiling Quicken Down to Its Essence -- Setting Up Additional Accounts -- Whipping Your Category Lists into Shape -- Want to Play Tag? -- Chapter 3: Maximum Fun, Maximum Profits -- Should You Even Bother with a Budget? -- Serious Advice about Your Secret Plan -- Setting Up a Secret Plan -- Part II: The Absolute Basics -- Chapter 4: Checkbook on a Computer -- Getting Started -- Finding Your Checkbook -- Recording Checks -- Recording Deposits -- Recording Account Transfers -- Splitting Transactions -- Deleting and Voiding Transactions -- The Big Register Phenomenon -- Pop-Up Calendars and Calculators -- Attaching Flags, Notes, and Images -- Chapter 5: Printing 101 -- Printing Checks -- Printing a Check Register -- Chapter 6: Online and In Charge -- What Are Online Account Access and Online Bill Payment? -- Wise Whys and Wherefores -- Banking with Online Account Access and Online Bill Payment -- Chapter 7: Reports, Charts, and Other Cool Tools -- Creating and Printing Reports -- Charts Only Look Tricky -- Customizing Your Reports -- Chapter 8: A Matter of Balance -- Selecting the Account You Want to Balance -- Balancing a Bank Account -- Ten Things You Should Do If Your Account Doesn't Balance -- Chapter 9: Housekeeping for Quicken -- Backing Up Is Hard to Do -- Working with Files, Files, and More Files.

Using and Abusing Passwords -- Chapter 10: Compound Interest Magic and Other Mysteries -- Noodling Around with Your Investments -- The Often Unbearable Burden of Debt -- The Refinance Calculator -- The Retirement Calculator -- Cost of College -- Planning for Taxes -- The Other Planning Tools -- Part III: Home Finances -- Chapter 11: Credit Cards, Petty Cash, and PayPal -- Tracking a Credit Card -- How to Set Up a Credit Card Account -- How to Enter Credit Card Transactions -- Reconciling That Crazy Account -- The Online Banking Hoopla -- Petty Cash and Mad Money -- PayPal Can Be Quicken's Friend -- Chapter 12: Other People's Money -- Should You Bother to Track Your Debts? -- How Do You Get Started? -- Delivering a Pound of Flesh (Also Known as Making a Payment) -- Your Principal-Interest Breakdown Won't Be Right -- Automatic Payments -- Chapter 13: Tracking Tax-Deferred Investments -- Deciding to Use Investment Features -- Tracking a Tax-Deferred Investment -- Updating Securities Prices -- Chapter 14: Stocks and Bonds -- Setting Up a Brokerage Account -- More Quick Stuff about Brokerage Accounts -- Part IV: Very Serious Business -- Chapter 15: Mind Your Business -- Setting Up a Business the Quicken Way -- Working with Customers -- Business Bookkeeping Whistles and Bells -- Quicken Dirty Payroll -- Chapter 16: Managing Rentals -- Describing a Rental Property -- Describing Tenants -- Recording Tenant Rent Payments -- Recording Rental Expenses -- Tracking Rental Property Profits -- Part V: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 17: (Slightly More Than) Ten Questions I'm Frequently Asked about Quicken -- What Are Quicken's Best Features? -- Does Quicken Work for a Corporation? -- What Happens to Stockholders' Equity in Quicken? -- Does Quicken Work for a Partnership? -- Can I Use Quicken for More Than One Business? -- What Kinds of Businesses Shouldn't Use Quicken?.

Can I Use Quicken for Real Estate Investing? -- Can I Use Quicken Retroactively? -- Can I Do Payroll with Quicken? -- Can I Prepare Invoices? -- Can I Import Data from an Old Accounting System? -- What Do You Think about Quicken? -- Chapter 18: (Almost) Ten Tips on How Not to Become a Millionaire -- Ignore the Fact That You Can Build Wealth by Investing in Ownership Investments and Earning Average Returns -- Ignore the Fact That You Can Get Much, and Maybe Most, of the Money from Tax Savings and Employer Matching -- Don't Tap Your Computer's Power to Develop Wealth-Building Insights -- Give Up, Because It's Too Late to Start Anyway -- Get Entangled in at Least One "Get-Rich-Quick" Scheme -- Fake It with False Affluence -- Give In to the First Big Temptation of Wealth Building -- Give In to the Second Big Temptation of Wealth Building -- Chapter 19: (Almost) Ten Troubleshooting Tips -- Tactics #1 and #2: Use the Quicken Help File and This Book -- Tactic #3: Visit the Quicken Product Support Website -- Tactics #4 and #5: Check the Microsoft or the Hardware Vendor Product Support Website -- Tactic #6: Contact Intuit Directly -- Tactic #7: Try the Quicken Live Community -- Tactic #8: Install and Use Antivirus Software -- Tactic #9: When All Else Fails . . . -- Part VI: Appendixes -- Appendix A: Quick-and-Dirty Windows 8 -- What Is Windows 8? -- Starting Windows 8 -- Starting Programs -- Choosing Commands from Menus -- Working with Dialog Boxes -- Stopping Quicken in Windows 8 -- A Yelp for Help -- Quitting Windows 8 -- Appendix B: Glossary of Business, Financial, and Computer Terms -- Index -- About the Author.