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America's No. 1 estate planning book with interactive CD-ROM software helps you create a will, living trust, living will -- and much more .

Help protect your family and your assets, and save on legal fees! Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essential 2008 Edition provides the legal forms you need. So comprehensive, the CD-ROM assembles your forms from among 40,000 document possibilities -- but so easy to use, you'll have them finished in minutes.

Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essential 2008 Edition includes a full "health care power of attorney." Dictate the health care you wish to receive if you can't speak for yourself, and be assured that your loved ones won't have to second-guess themselves!

Create your own:

Will

Living Trusts, including an AB Trust

Health Care Directive:
Living Will
Health Care Power of Attorney

Financial Powers of Attorney

Final arrangements document

Important documents for executors

The CD-ROM also provides forms you can use every day, such as authorizations and agreements, child and elder care forms, promissory notes and documents to help you repair your credit.

For each document, Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essentials 2008 Edition takes you through a step-by-step interview. Your documents will automatically reflect the laws of your state. If you have any questions, simply check out the comprehensive onscreen legal manual. Expert tech support is also available.

Need to know more? Here are in-depth details about what you can do with Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essentials 2008 Edition:

Your Will

Provide for family, friends and charities. Name a personal guardian to care for young children. Specify the executor (or "personal representative") of your estate. Select a trusted person to manage property left to young people. Revise and update your will whenever you like.

Your Living Trust

Make a basic trust, whether you're married or single. If married, you can create a AB trust (or bypass trust) and spare your heirs from potentially heavy estate taxes. Create subtrusts for minor children and young adults. Name custodians for property left to children. Change or revoke your trust at any time.

Your Health Care Directive lets people who care for you make important decisions about your life and health when you can't. Create a:

Health Care Power of Attorney Permit a loved one to make important medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself.

Living Will

Specify whether you want your life prolonged through artificial means. Appoint someone to make sure your wishes are carried out.

Your Financial Power of Attorney

Name someone to make your financial decisions, in case you are medically incapacitated. Don't worry, you can grant as much authority as you wish.

Your Final Arrangements

Plan a funeral or other ceremony. Clarify whether you want a cremation or burial. Select someone to oversee your final arrangements -- and more!

Documents for Your Executor

Make sure your executor ("personal representative" in some states) has all the forms and instructions he or she needs to do the job: Checklists, letters, notices, claim forms -- and more.

Personal Finance Documents

Over a dozen forms that let you handle financial situations you might face on any given day, such as disputing a credit card charge, lending or borrowing money to friends or family, creating bills of sale -- and more!

Home & Family Documents

Whether you need to authorize someone to travel with your child to another country, want to lend your car to a friend, or create an agreement with a trusted person to take care of your elderly parent, Quicken WillMaker Plus can handle all these family situations -- and many more!

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Quicken is one of the many convenient ways to keep track of personal finances, but many people are unaware of Quicken's power and end up using only the basic features And sometimes Quicken seems to raise more questions than it answers: Return of capital from stock? "Net worth"? What are they and why do you need to know about them? Luckily, Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual picks up where Quicken's help resources leave off. You'll find step-by-step instructions for using the most useful Quicken features, including those you may not have quite understood, let alone mastered, such as budgeting, recording investment transactions, archiving Quicken data files, and so on. You also learn why and when to use specific features, and which ones would be most useful in your situation. Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual helps you: Set up Quicken to take care of your specific needs. Follow your money from the moment you earn it. Make deposits, pay for expenses, track the things you own and how much you owe. Take care of financial tasks online, and quickly reconcile your accounts. Create and use budgets and track your investments. Generate reports to prepare your tax returns and evaluate your financial fitness. And a lot more. This book is designed to accommodate readers at every technical level. If you're a first-time Quicken user, special boxes with the title "Up To Speed" provide the introductory information you need to understand the topic at hand. For advanced users, there are similar boxes called "Power Users' Clinic" that offer more technical tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the experienced Quicken fan. For a topic as important as your personal finances, why trust anything else?.
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If you’ve considered using financial software to handle your personal finances, Quicken 2008 just might be the tool you’ve been looking for. Quicken is America’s top-selling personal finance software. It can help you manage the money for both your household and your small business, while Quicken 2008 For Dummies can help you manage Quicken.

With the number of individual bankruptcies at an alarming level, personal financial management needs to be a priority for each of us. You don’t have to be an accounting wizard to handle your personal finances on a PC, especially with the friendly, plain-English explanations in Quicken 2008 For Dummies! Written by a CPA who provides consulting services on accounting and tax planning to small businesses, Quicken 2008 For Dummies shows you how to:

• Install Quicken and run Express Setup
• Handle your checkbook, pay bills, and track your income
• Monitor and assess your investments
• Track loans and credit card activity
• Understand how interest compounds and what it costs when you borrow, as well as how it adds up when you invest
• Create charts and reports to show how you’re doing
• Use Quicken to handle your small business finances
• Prepare payroll and track accounts receivable and payable

Quicken 2008 For Dummies may not make managing your finances exactly fun, but it’s guaranteed to make the job easier..
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• Stephen Nelson's previous For Dummies guides to Quicken have sold more than 900,000 copies
• Quicken has more than 16 million active users and 75 percent of the personal finance software market
• Shows people how to get their finances under control quickly and easily using Quicken
• Covers online banking and bill paying, tracking credit cards, managing loans, maximizing investments, calculating interest, preparing payroll, setting up accounts, creating reports, and more
• Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements in the new version of Quicken
• Published in conjunction with the release of Quicken "X"

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The Only Intuit-Authorized Guide to the #1 Personal Finance Software

Manage your finances and assets quickly and easily using the expert techniques inside Quicken 2008: The Official Guide. Discover how to make the most of all the new and improved features and track your income, expenses, savings, transactions, investments, and more.

Fully endorsed by Intuit, makers of Quicken, this official guide will help you save time and money by showing you how to maximize the software's powerful capabilities--including many that you may not even know about. You'll get valuable insider tips and find out about online resources that will help guide you in making sound financial decisions and planning for a secure future.

• Customize Quicken for your preferences
• Track your cash flow
• Set up Online Account Services
• Automate transactions and tasks
• Reconcile checking, savings, and credit card accounts
• Track investments and optimize your portfolio
• Monitor assets and loans
• Manage household records
• Reduce debt, save money, and plan for retirement
• Simplify tax preparation and maximize deductions

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QuickBooks 2007 on Demand is the ultimate reference for people who really want to learn how to use the most popular accounting program Using a friendly seeit/do-it technique, QuickBooks 2007 on Demand gives you illustrated, full color, step-by-step explanations that put you in charge of your finances Whether you keep this book right next to your computer for quick reference or use it to train others, you’ll find this is an indispensable resource.

SEE HOW TO

• Produce and customize reports that show exactly how your company is doing
• Schedule transactions so you’ll never forget a due date again
• Bill time and expenses directly to customers
• Use the new QuickBooks features for 2007, including a redesigned Payroll Center and the new Accountant’s Copy that lets you keep working while your accountant reviews your books
• Create and use a budget
• Reconcile your bank account to the penny without waiting for the bank statement to come in the mail
• Keep detailed records of fixed asset acquisitions
• Protect your financial information with the latest in security techniques
• Send customized mailings to your customers and vendors

1. Setting Up Your Company Accounts with the EasyStep Interview

2. Setting Up and Using Payroll Features

3. Adding or Changing Information After the Interview Is Completed

4. Invoicing and Collecting Income

5. Making Purchases and Recording Payments

6. Collecting and Paying Sales Tax

7. Using Timesaving Features

8. Job Cost Estimating and Tracking

9. Tracking Time New!

10. QuickBooks Tips and Tricks

11. Using the QuickBooks Online Features

12. Preparing Income Tax Returns

13. Security

14. Using Inventory Features

15. Recording Your Assets

16. Recording Owners’ Equity

17. Recording Liabilities

18. Preparing the Top Ten QuickBooks Reports

New! Features

Index

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The only official guide to Quicken--the #1 personal finance software on the market

Fully endorsed and reviewed by Inuit, makers of Quicken, Quicken 2007:The Official Guide offers the time- and money-saving techniques you need to organize and manage your personal finances and master all of the new and improved features of the software.

You will discover proven tips for managing money and investments--including spending, savings, budgets, banking, and more. The book explains how to track income and expenses, automate bill-pay, reconcile checking, savings, and credit card accounts, create reports, simplify filing systems--and even save on taxes. Financial calculators, capital gains snapshots, investment tracker tools, and online resources are also covered. The chapters closely follow the software to help you find information quickly and easily.

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The Exclusive Story behind Intuit's Hard-Won Success

It's a modern-day David and Goliath story for the business world: a company dreamed up at a kitchen table, built on explosive PC growth, and forced to battle a giant in the race to revolutionize an industry. This is the story of Intuit, creator of renowned software products like Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax-the company that beat mighty Microsoft and changed the way 25 million people manage their finances.

Written by Intuit veteran Suzanne Taylor and seasoned business manager Kathy Schroeder-who were granted exclusive interviews with founder Scott Cook and other key figures- Inside Intuit tells this company's original and fascinating tale for the first time. The book vividly recounts each dramatic stage of Intuit's development: from initial conception to "bet the company" investments; from strokes of marketing genius to disastrous product launches; and from battles for survival to successive victories against arch-rival Microsoft-the company no one else could beat.

Evident throughout this account is the power of Intuit's relentless customer focus, which guided the company from tiny start-up to a 6,000-employee, $1.4 billion business. Instructive and inspiring, Inside Intuit chronicles an enduring company's extraordinary success against overwhelming odds.

"This important book doesn't take any shortcuts in analyzing the building blocks of success. Taylor and Schroeder have written a fascinating blow-by-blow account of the thousand and one decisions that have made Intuit what it is. Highly readable, thorough, and extremely well researched Inside Intuit is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand success in Silicon Valley."

-Emanuel Rosen, author, The Anatomy of Buzz

"Inside Intuit is more than the history of a start-up that grew to dominate a major software category. It is a blueprint of success for entrepreneurs and investors who want to build great businesses in difficult environments."

-Roger McNamee, cofounder, Silver Lake Partners and Integral Capital Partners

"Inside Intuit is a very entertaining book. Any entrepreneur at heart will enjoy and learn from the story of how Scott Cook and Tom Proulx faced so much adversity and came back from the brink of disaster to build a very successful, highly admired Silicon Valley company. Readers can learn many lessons from both Intuit's successes and mistakes. In the end, good ideas, hard work, determination, and strong values really do pay off!"

-Dan Rudolph, Senior Associate Dean/Chief Operating Officer, Stanford Graduate School of Business

"I was thrilled to read the inside story of how Intuit was born and raised. I've always admired Intuit's strict attention to customer needs and feedback. Now I have a much better idea of how that culture was created."

-Stewart Alsop, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

"Inside Intuit offers readers the secrets behind that company's extraordinary success. The authors' insights into how Intuit trounced Microsoft alone are worth the price of the book!"

-Andrea Butter, coauthor, Piloting Palm: The Inside Story of Palm, Handspring and the Birth of the Billion Dollar Handheld Industry
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• Stephen Nelson's previous For Dummies guides to Quicken have sold more than 900,000 copies
• Quicken has more than 16 million active users and 75 percent of the personal finance software market
• Shows people how to get their finances under control quickly and easily using Quicken
• Covers online banking and bill paying, tracking credit cards, managing loans, maximizing investments, calculating interest, preparing payroll, setting up accounts, creating reports, and more
• Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements in the new version of Quicken
• Published in conjunction with the release of Quicken "X"

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