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New Features in Intuit QuickBooks 2010

September 30th, 2009 by Susan Davis | No Comments
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With its new features, Intuit QuickBooks Accounting Solutions are hands-down the smartest, easiest way to help your business succeed. With the new features built into the various financial software versions, you and your accountant will be able to work more productively, and save yourself time and money.

QuickBooks is the #1 Small Business Financial Software on the market today. Nearly 70% of users say QuickBooks helps their business to be more profitable, based on a 2008 survey of QuickBooks Pro & Premier customers who expressed an opinion. Over 3.5 million small businesses use QuickBooks every day to take care of their financial accounting needs.

New Features in QuickBooks 2010

One of my personal favorite features is the improved “Company Snapshot”. This is a combined dashboard of real-time information about your company where you can see a variety of information at a glance. Online Banking and bank reconciliations have been beefed up in QuickBooks 2009 and QuickBooks 2010, and Intuit has added additional multi-currency support so that it supports global currencies.

I am really excited about the new Document Management System – it is really helpful for finally synchronizing your non-QuickBooks files with the data in QuickBooks. You can finally have other types of important, relevant documents at your fingertips rather than hunting all around your computer or paper files for the data!

Save Money on your Accountant Bill

Intuit has added some excellent features that will save your accountant time in making changes and corrections to your company records. You can now add or edit multiple transaction entries from within a spreadsheet view. And the Intuit Statement Writer will cut down on the time for doing financial statements. The Client Data Review gives your accountant improved capabilities at fixing problems in your QuickBooks file more quickly (and at a lower cost to you).

Increased Productivity with QuickBooks 2010

Frankly, you can manage your business better with QuickBooks. It helps you stay on top of your business instead of having to guess at where you are financially, ultimately helping you make your business more profitable.

If you have, or are planning to hire, a staff member to do your bookkeeping, QuickBooks 2010 is the perfect choice. Since it is so widely used, finding a trained employee, bookkeeper, or accountant is much easier than with other financial software.

With the option of easy-to-use integrated payroll solutions and merchant services to take credit cards for your business, you get a comprehensive solution that is still easy to learn and use.

If you need some additional help with setup or some extra training on specific features, a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor like myself is available to help. If you’re looking for a full-featured accounting program that is easy to use, QuickBooks is my recommendation to you. If you’re not sure which version would be best for you, feel free to email me or give me a call for a short, free consultation.

Intuit offers many different versions of QuickBooks to meet your specific needs. You can get them on a CD, or you can “go Green” and buy a digital download and have your new software on the spot without waiting for the mail to arrive. The file is pretty large, but with broadband, you can set it to go and do something else while it downloads in the background.

You can also compare versions of QuickBooks 2010 here.

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Note for Users of QuickBooks 2007 or earlier

Every year in May, Intuit changes its support policy for older versions of QuickBooks. This helps them to keep support costs reasonable and allows them to continue to offer various versions of QuickBooks at its great prices. This May, QuickBooks 2007 will move off into the sunset. This doesn’t mean that your version of QuickBooks will stop working. What it means is that you will no longer get updates, bug fixes, payroll support, or technical support.

Frankly, it’s a good idea to upgrade every three years or so, since earlier versions of QuickBooks will often not work well on newer operating systems or computers with newer browsers on them. QuickBooks is a complex program, and with the changes in the computer world happening so fast, you should keep QuickBooks up-to-date if you can fit it into your budget.

Are you ready for the new QuickBooks 2010? If you have any questions, call or send me a message through the contact form, or comment here. You can also access my QuickBooks ProAdvisor profile for more information about my QuickBooks 2010 ProAdvisor bookkeeping business.

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