QuickBooks is the #1 selling software for financial management and accounting in the world. Recently, it received PC Magazine’s Editors Choice Award with the top 5-star rating for the best software. It has been developed by Intuit, whose headquarters are in Mountain View, California, adjacent to the Google campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Basics

 

Here are some of the reasons it has been so well-liked:

 

• QuickBooks is a system that can be used by both novices and experts.

• Its screens are intuitive and easy to navigate.

• It offers a wide array of features to cover all the fundamentals of financial management and accounting.

• It has a history and excellent reputation for reliability, flexibility and responsiveness to its customers.

• It is very forgiving, should you enter information in error or forget to do a certain step.

• It includes a number of helps or guides, including a tutorial, online Help with topics, indices and searches, context-sensitive guides as you enter fields.

• For one-on-one help, there are many accountants and Pro-Advisors who are expert, educated and experienced with QuickBooks to help you.

• Training courses are available throughout the world.

• It provides excellent audit trails and easy-to-use search facilities for the information you have entered.

• Standard reports are very flexible to select and report the information in a format that is most useful to you. Custom reports can be developed for your specific needs.

• Frequent transactions and reports can be memorized to save you time.

• Included in the basics are these applications:

 

 

Customers, Sales, Invoices, Accounts Receivable,

Job Accounting, Vendors and Payables, Inventory,

Chart of Accounts, Journals, Budgeting and Forecasting,

Financial Reports, Employees, Payroll

 

 

 

Beyond The Basics

 

Moving beyond the basics, here are more reasons why so many businesses love QuickBooks.

 

• QuickBooks provides easy reconciliation of bank accounts and other critical financial data.

• It includes a built-in calculator.

• It provides for security of data access through a structure of user permissions.

• It keeps up to date with technology, offering such services as:

 

 

Online banking, Emails of invoices, 

Import/export with other software, Remote access, 

Accountant coordination, Credit card processing, Web-hosted backups 

 

 

• It includes a library of letters that can be used as is or edited for correspondence with customers, vendors and others.

• Customer, vendor and employee centers provide for easy navigation and selection from one screen.

• Its Customer Manager provides for easy tracking of phone calls, contacts and emails, a way to link documents to customers, a to-do list to provide reminders and organize tasks.

• It offers both a payroll service and software for in-house payroll processing.

• It offers a variety of forms, both pre-printed and for plain paper, as well as the ability to custom-design your own forms.

• It synchronizes with Microsoft Outlook and ACT! for customers, vendors, employees and other contacts. For tax processing, it synchronizes with TurboTax.

• It provides import/export facilities for transferring information to and from QuickBooks and other software systems.

• Through its network of developers, it synchronizes with over 400 other applications, both industry-specific and general, including many of the foremost companies and software applications.

•  It offers affordable solutions for computer systems ranging from one station to an enterprise network of 30 stations.