QuickBooks Premier 2005

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Create a forecast of income and expenses for the year ahead, based on your existing QuickBooks data with the click of a button.
• Build a professional, accurate business plan more easily than ever.
• Track inventory assemblies and finished goods.
• More easily apply payments, such as overpayments, underpayments, credits and refunds.
• More easily merge QuickBooks data into Microsoft Word [2000, 2002 or 2003] letters and envelopes for quick, professional mailings to customers, vendors or employees.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00062AJRQ
• Item model number: 284469
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 25, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,850 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

QuickBooks 2005 gives you easier access to relevant reports and onscreen help. You'll find more flexible payment and payroll processing. You'll get tools to help you use QuickBooks more effectively and the ability to easily merge customer information into Microsoft Word documents and envelopes. Now you can print shipping documents for UPS packages, as well as FedEx shipments and you'll get access to a whole library of business resources, information and forms. QuickBooks 2005 can save you time, help you manage your business more effectively, and help you make a plan to achieve better results in the future. Plus, the Expert Analysis tool has been updated with recent data so that you'll know where your business stands against the competition in any of 130 industries. The Business Plan tool now includes enhanced spellcheck, export of financial projections to Excel, and the ability to turn your plan into a PDF file for e-mailing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product for growing companies, December 26, 2005

By 

Jennifer Keohane "T & J Keohane" (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: QuickBooks Premier 2005 (CD-ROM)

I had few expectations for this product as my accounting and finance training was in large companies with multi-million dollar systems running on massive SAP & Oracle databases. So moving to found my own business meant learning a lot of new infrastructure, including our financial support.

Quickbooks consistently impresses me with its ability to do what I need. For a small company, it provides a great deal of features and flexibility- you really can do an awful lot with the product. I am pretty confident that it will carry us through multiple offices, out of state locations, etc.

You definitely need some accounting background (in my opinion) to try to dive in and use it; because it's so rich, and can do so much, I can't imagine trying to start using it without that background. I did go to a class through the SBA to get a quick primer on how to post transactions and such, which was useful.

You can accomplish the same thing many ways in the system, which is both good and bad: the flexibility is nice, but it means that the user has to be disciplined about developing a consistent process. That's not a problem, just a quirk; were Intuit to provide "templates" (not really "recommendations" b/c that might be "advice") on how to post things, that would be useful.

Again, I'm just starting to explore what can be done with the tool, but am very satisfied with the results and look forward to learning more about the product.

Tim Keohane
VP Finance & Operations
Senior Educators
www.senioreducators.org

2.0 out of 5 stars Very old software, August 30, 2010

By 

Michael Berger (San Luis Obispo, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: QuickBooks Premier 2005 (CD-ROM)

I used this version of the software several years ago and it was not bad, but I would not recomend it today. This version is just too old and is certainly not worth the $750 which it is currently priced at.

-Mike