The business information in a Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 company includes company accounts, customers, employees, stock inventory or service items, and vendors. This information drives your business and is essential to how your accounting system operates.

You can add this information to Office Accounting 2008 in two ways: Import it from other programs such as Microsoft Office Excel, or enter it manually.

Import data

If you already have account, customer, employee, item, or vendor information in Office Excel format, you can easily import that data into Accounting 2008.

• Quick Start: Use the Excel workbooks
• Quick Start: About importing data
• Quick Start: Import customers
• Quick Start: Import employees
• Quick Start: Import items
• Quick Start: Import vendors

Enter data manually

You can type or paste account, customer, employee, item, and vendor information into Accounting 2008.

• Quick Start: Add accounts
• Quick Start: Add customers
• Quick Start: Add employees
• Quick Start: Add items
• Quick Start: Add vendors