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FileMaker Pro 8: The Missing Manual

Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Used by millions worldwide, FileMaker Pro is an award-winning database program for managing people, projects, images, assets, and other information. It's easy to use and totally customizable--so long as you know what you're doing. But FileMaker Pro doesn't come with a printed manual, so FileMaker Pro: The Missing Manual is the authoritative, jargon-free book that should have been in the box.

FileMaker Pro: The Missing Manual approaches FileMaker the way FileMaker approaches you: it's user-friendly and seemingly straightforward enough, but it offers plenty of substance worthy of deeper exploration. Packed with practical information as well as countless expert tips and invaluable guidance, it's an in-depth guide to designing and building useful databases with the powerful and pliable FileMaker Pro.

Covering FileMaker for both Windows and Macintosh, FileMaker Pro: The Missing Manual is ideal for small business users, home users, school teachers, developers--anyone who wants to organize information efficiently and effectively. Whether you want to run a business, publish a shopping cart on the Web, plan a wedding, manage a student information system at your school, or program databases for clients, this book delivers.

Author Geoff Coffey has many years of experience using FileMaker Pro (he was, in fact, an early beta tester for the product). Author Susan Prosser is a FileMaker Certified Developer who trains other developers. Together, Coffey and Prosser show you how to:

• Get FileMaker up and running quickly and smoothly
• Import and organize information with ease
• Design relational databases that are simple to use, yet powerful
• Take advantage of FileMaker Pro calculation capabilities
• Automate processes with scripting
• Customize FileMaker Pro to your needs and preferences
• Share information with other people (coworkers, clients, and customers) and other programs
• Understand and select the best security options

What could easily come across as dry and intimidating--things like relational theory, calculations, and scripting--are presented in a way that is interesting and intuitive to mainstream users. In no time, you'll be working more productively and efficiently using FileMaker Pro.

SAP: An Executive's Comprehensive Guide

Grant Norris, Ian Wright, James R. Hurley, John R. Dunleavy, Alison Gibson, John Dunleavy

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Crucial Help for Getting the Most from Today's Information Systems Technology Deciding what type of information systems your company will need to stay competitive into the twenty-first century is a highly complex and risky exercise. SAP: An Executive's Comprehensive Guide provides the information you need to assess your options realistically and make the most informed decisions possible. Written by a team of business, financial, and information systems professionals who have extensive experience with SAP system implementations at Fortune 500 companies, this book:
* Explores the strategic role of client/server enterprise computing now and in the next century
* Helps you to evaluate your company's long-term IS requirements
* Offers an impartial look at SAP R/3 strengths and weaknesses
* Outlines the costs and benefits involved in implementing SAP R/3
* Helps you decide whether SAP R/3 is right for your organization
* Shows you how to make SAP R/3 an integral part of process redesign
* Covers all key technical SAP aspects of concern to IS professionals

SAP R/3 Administration for Dummies

Joey Hirao, Jim Meade

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Here's the scenario: Your company has just installed the world's most-used business software for client/server computing, SAP R/3, and you're in charge. You have enough program documentation to fill up an entire office, but you don't have the time to sort through all this paper and learn about Enterprise Resource Planning or the SAP System Landscape.

Here's help the fast and friendly way: SAP R/3 Administration For Dummies, a plain-speaking reference for the rest of us! To keep SAP R/3 running exactly to your company's needs and specifications, you need the straight-talking, user-friendly, laid-back style of this great reference book. SAP R/3 Administration For Dummies features help on what you need to know -- working in a three-tiered landscape, handling user authorizations, defining and scheduling operation modes, monitoring performance with the Computing Center Management System, using systematic guidelines for protecting security, and much, much more.

From understanding the basics of the SAP Business Framework to deciding which R/3 modules fit your business requirements, planning background processing, fine-tuning R/3 source code, enabling security, and troubleshooting common problems, SAP R/3 Administration For Dummies delivers the know-how you need without all the technobabble that can drive you to distraction.

QuickBooks Pro 2006 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Maria Langer

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If anything can make accounting fun (or even just a little less painful) QuickBooks Pro 2005 can--especially if you get this no-nonsense task-based guide to it! While QuickBooks Pro 6 was all about going native (Mac OS X–native, that is!), this time out the focus is on ease of use. To ensure that you don't miss out on any of the many features that can streamline your accounting processes, trusted Mac teacher Maria Langer uses simple step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to get you up to speed on QuickBooks Pro fast. After providing a detailed account of how to install and configure the program, Maria shows you how to enter sales, make payments, work with transactions, track inventory, process payroll, report results, print forms, and more. Along the way, Maria discusses the accounting principles that guide the program's use and delves deeply into all of QuickBooks' newest features: one-click viewing of cash flow and unbilled hours, the ability to share QuickBooks data with Windows users, and more.

Using Sap R/3 Fi: Beyond Business Process Reengineering

Ben W. Rockefeller

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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This book is for the professional financial manager, accountant, or bookkeeper who needs to learn the basics of SAP R/3 FI quickly, without wading through a morass of technical jargon. Featuring a clear, functional outline, copious sample screens, and simple step-by-step instructions, Using SAP R/3 FI presents the most widely used FI functions in plain, argot-free English, following menu lines from the actual program.

The book also provides details about using FI for international business, such as translating the chart of accounts, keeping accounts in foreign currency, entering transactions in foreign currency, and revaluing accounts and open items in different currencies. You'll also learn the highlights of integrating R/3 FI with SD (order entry, shipping, and invoicing) and MM (purchasing, receiving, and inventory control). This remarkably detailed manual shows you how to use R/3 FI for all your basic accounting functions, including
* General ledger
* Accounts receivable
* Accounts payable
* System administration
* And much, much more.

Administering Sap R/3: The Fi-Financial Accounting and Co-Controlling Modules

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

Don't buy this book 1 out of 5 stars.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful.

I found this 500-page book completely useless. The book doesn't have any (!) illustrations, it's plain text only, and it basically rephrases standard SAP OnLine Help. I found the standard SAP FI/CO Online Help more readable than this book ...

Waste of Ink! 1 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

This book is pretty useless and gives you just enough information to really screw things up.

Great for the person needing process knowledge of FI or CO 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I have ordered/read 6 books on the FI and CO modules in the last two weeks. My experience is that this book is the most detailed and beneficial of all. For someone who is looking to understand the process side of these SAP modules I would strongly recommend this book. If you are looking to learn more about the config, BUY A CONFIG book, not this one. The negative reviews seem to be related to the fact that people don't understand what this book is trying to accomplish (process understanding). If you have a medium understanding of SAP R/3 and a limited to medium knowledge base of accounting (internal and external) concepts, this book is a winner.

very exiting to read and get a deep knowledge about control 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 5 people found this review helpful.

helpful to understand the logic of finance and controlling concepts. navigation are clearly explained.

SAP R/3 Implementation: Methods and Tools (SAP Excellence)

Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, Jörg Ritter

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Save your money, read on-line help or ASAP CD's 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

All of the information is available on-line either in "Help" or SAP's ASAP discs. Does a reasonable job of condesing down to 180+ pages. Targeted towards the first time SAP user NOT experienced users/consultants.

Good book for beginners 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

It is my first book on SAP R/3, it was really helpfull during my college clases.

Editorial Review:

Before use, standard ERP systems such as SAP R/3 need to be customized to meet the concrete requirements of the individual enterprise. This book provides an overview of the process models, methods, and tools offered by SAP and its partners to support this complex and time-consuming process. It begins by characterizing the foundations of the latest ERP systems from both a conceptual and technical viewpoint, whereby the most important components and functions of SAP R/3 are described. The main part of the book then goes on to present the current methods and tools for the R/3 implementation based on newer process models (roadmaps).

QuickBooks Pro 6 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Maria Langer

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You watched enviously as your friends and colleagues all switched to Apple's snazzy Mac OS X. Now you can too--now that your favorite Mac accounting program, QuickBooks Pro, has ended its five-year exile and is finally Mac OS X ready! Best-selling author and trusted Mac teacher Maria Langer ensures you won't be left behind as she uses simple step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to take you through all of QuickBooks' features. She begins by giving a detailed accounting of how to install and configure QuickBooks, including using its new Company Setup Assistant. She then shows you how to enter sales, make payments, work with transactions, take advantage of its extensive inventory tracking capabilities, use budgets, report results, print forms, and customize the program. Along the way, Maria discusses the accounting principles that guide the program's use and doles out plenty of tips and tricks to help users sidestep thorny issues.

Implementing Sap R/3 : How to Introduce a Large System into a Large Organization, 2nd Edition

Nancy H. Bancroft, Henning Seip, Andrea Sprengel

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

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Frankness is a quality permeating the pages of Implementing SAP R/3: How to Introduce a Large System into a Large Organization. Mining nearly three decades worth of combined consulting experience, authors Bancroft, Seip, and Sprengel provide incisive and brutally honest insight into what it means to overhaul both business and computing practices with SAP R/3. The book focuses more on business and process reengineering than configurations or programming. Implementing SAP R/3 does manage to provide a balanced view of the technological components of the R/3 system. The authors take pains to explain what types of businesses it is best suited for, its failures and shortcomings, as well as its triumphs.

The explanation of R/3 that kick starts this book is highly approachable, detailing the philosophical and technical underpinnings of this system. The other three loosely constructed sections deal almost exclusively with the complexity of an R/3 implementation. Throughout these portions, the authors emphasize the importance of identifying and establishing project goals, a point liberally illustrated by various case studies. Additionally, a terrific glossary is tucked away in the final pages, as are four appendices. These appendices cover data-modeling and relational-database concepts, content and structure of the SAP data dictionary, and the development of Advanced Business Application Programming/4GL (ABAP4). --Sarah L. Roberts-Witt

iMac Bundle

C. Ann Brown, Maria Langer, Tom Negrino

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awesome deal 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

this is a neat deal! I realized that Amazon's price works to about half that of Border's for this bundle.. The only downside is that the quicken book might be of no use to someone who does not use it (like me). But, hey if you get it for free, who's complaining!

This is a very good and informative book 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 7 people found this review helpful.

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