Master the skills of QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA) at your own pace with the unique self-directed learning approach found in Owen's USING QUICKBOOKS® ONLINE FOR ACCOUNTING, 5E. This edition focuses exclusively on QBOA, allowing you to refine your skills while reviewing your understanding of financial accounting, reporting and analysis tools. You learn how accounting information is both created and used to make key decisions. Easy-to-follow instructions, real examples and manageable assignments help you reinforce your accounting skills as you practice using the QBOA application and analyzing business events. You learn how to set up QBOA for a business and how to use it to record business events; generate financial statements and reports; and communicate critical information to business owners, investors and creditors. The skills you acquire translate into on-the-job success no matter what accounting applications you use in the future.

Glenn Owen, BA, CPA, recently retired from Allan Hancock College. As part of the accounting and business faculty, he guided students to understand accounting and information systems for 21 years. Mr. Owen is also a retired lecturer from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he taught accounting and information systems courses from 1980 to 2011. His professional experience includes five years at Deloitte & Touche. He also held vice president of finance positions at Westpac Resources, Inc. and Expertelligence, Inc. An acclaimed and well-respected author, Mr. Owen is well known for his QuickBooks® texts, which offer self-paced, case-based instruction on the use of this popular commercial accounting application. His innovative teaching style emphasizes the decision-maker’s perspective and encourages students to think creatively. Mr. Owen's graduate studies in educational psychology and his 40 years of business experience yield a balanced blend of theory and practice that permeates and strengthens all of his books.