Overview of QuickBooks

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. Here are some of the reasons why.

The Basics

• 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