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Learn how to manage projects of any size with Microsoft Project updated for 2021. Whether you’re new to Project management and Microsoft Project, or looking to expand your skills, this clear and engaging book guides you through Project’s features step by step. You can jump directly to the topics you need. Or download sample files from the book’s website to follow along to build a task list and resource team, develop and fine-tune your schedule, and monitor and correct performance. This book shows you how to make the most of Project’s tools, so you can master Project and the projects you manage with it.

Learn how to track and manage your business finances with QuickBooks 2018. This clear and engaging book provides step-by-step instructions on how and when to use QuickBooks’ features, along with basic bookkeeping and accounting advice. Get started quickly at the beginning of the book or jump directly to the topics you need. Download bonus appendixes from the book’s website. This book shows you how to make the most of QuickBooks, so your bookkeeping flows smoother and faster.

Learn how to manage projects of any size with Microsoft Project 2016. Whether you’re new to Project management and Microsoft Project, or looking to expand your skills, this clear and engaging book guides you through Project’s features step by step. You can jump directly to the topics you need. Or download sample files from the book’s website to follow along to build a task list and resource team, develop and fine-tune your schedule, and monitor and correct performance. This book shows you how to make the most of Project’s tools, so you can master Project and the projects you manage with it.

How can you make your bookkeeping workflow smoother and faster? Simple. With this Missing Manual, you’re in control: you get step-by-step instructions on how and when to use specific features, along with basic bookkeeping and accounting advice to guide you through the learning process. Discover new and improved features like the Insights dashboard and easy report commenting. You’ll soon see why this book is the Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2016.

QuickBooks 2014: The Missing Manual

QuickBooks 2013: The Missing Manual

Or head to O’Reilly.com and search for the QuickBooks Missing Manual edition you want (QuickBooks 2011 Missing Manual, for example).

Get up to speed on Microsoft Project 2013 and learn how to manage projects large and small. This crystal-clear book not only guides you step-by-step through Project 2013’s new features, it also gives you real-world guidance: how to prep a project before touching your PC, and which Project tools will keep you on target. With this Missing Manual, you’ll go from project manager to Project master.

Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual
Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual

Or head to O’Reilly.com and search for the QuickBooks Missing Manual edition you want (Project 2010: Missing Manual, for example).

Learn best practices and proven methods from project management professionals—and apply these skills as you work with Microsoft^® Project. In this practical guide, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows you how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, sharing the real-world experiences of project managers in several industries. You’ll learn how to put the best practices and hard-won lessons of experts to work on your critical projects. Project files available on the companion website.

Tired of reading about QuickBooks or project management? Then how about hit men and stupid criminals? (This is my first novel.)

There’s something fishy going on in the backwater town of Wanaduck, Washington, population 879, er, 878… Make that 850.

Anthony “Juice” Verrone, former Mafia enforcer and guest of the Witness Security Program, is trying to hide from the Family he sent up the river. When a giant hot dog, a fiberglass bass, and a plummeting corpse put the squeeze on Juice, he thinks he’s been found out. Juice teams up with Rudy Touchous, a forensic accountant, and Police Chief Dickie Gordon, to track down the killer. Instead, they run head-on into a public utility in desperate financial straits, a local troop of NASCAR-addled, bass-fishing rednecks with odd literary aspirations, and a vegetarian commune, which, in its dedication to the well-being of plants, is tossing more than lettuce into its salad bar. And what is that secret ingredient in their all-vegetarian hotdogs? The Utility’s plans leak, so they bring in a strange parade of hired guns to make sure the people who know too much can’t say anything.

When these players mix it up at the Asparagus Festival a conflagration ignites that changes everything. Can Juice go back to being a regular guy? Or does he find out that he can hide, but he can’t just disappear?

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Many projects fail to deliver on time or on budget, or even to deliver a workable product that satisfies the customer. While good project management goes a long way towards ensuring success, managers often fail to follow the plans they implement. This unique guide helps you understand and successfully handle project management, once and for all. Covering practical ways to solve problems you’ll typically face when managing actual projects, this pragmatic book takes you through a full project management lifecycle. You’ll find ample tips, tricks, and best practices—all richly illustrated with real case studies.