QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2009 [OLD VERSION]

by Intuit

Product Features

• Perform write-up, review, and financial reporting with built-in tools like the Working Trial Balance
• Provide the convenience of "on-site" service without leaving your office via the internet.
• Exchange, adjust and return client prior period accounting records with the improved

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001ECGT4E
• Item model number: 406638
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,692 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Premier Accountant Edition is an integrated accounting solution with all-in-one bookkeeping, write-up, and financial reporting solution to help accounting professionals work efficiently with multiple QuickBooks clients.

QuickBooks' master program, designed for accountanting professionals. Click to enlarge.

Designed For Accountants

Exchange and work with client files from all QuickBooks 2009 programs
QuickBooks' master program, designed for accountanting professionals. With 9 different QuickBooks 2009 accounting programs built-in, it's the best way to share files and work with QuickBooks accounting clients.

Anytime, anywhere internet access to client QuickBooks files for one year
Save travel time and boost client satisfaction. Any time, anywhere internet access to your client's accounting records free with purchase of Accountant Edition.

Review balances, adjust entries and enter workpaper references in one screen
Review & adjust client balances from one screen. QuickZoom shows you transaction detail from account balances. You can even enter workpaper references next to account balances.

Find and fix client entry errors; from one screen adjust account balance detail & lists, clear open A/P & A/R, and cleanup sales tax and payroll liability accounts
From one screen, find and cleanup G/L account balances, client changes to QuickBooks lists, open items in A/P and A/R and sales and payroll tax accounts. Changes are documented leaving an audit trail.ÒSet Closing DateÓ to help preserve changes by password protecting prior periods.

Free dedicated Accountant QuickBooks technical support for 30 days
Get your Accountant Edition experience started with 30 days of service for free. This includes assisted data conversion from most programs to QuickBooks and free dedicated Accountant QuickBooks technical support for 30 days.

Assisted data conversion & Peachtree and Microsoft to QuickBooks Conversion tool
Free data conversion from Peachtree and Microsoft Office Accounting to QuickBooks with the QuickBooks Conversion Tool

Track financial information in one place

Track sales & expenses
Get rid of the piles of paperwork. Easily enter customer payments & bills from vendors. Since QuickBooks organizes everything in one place, you'll be able to access all past payments & bills for each customer and vendor with just a few clicks.

Pay bills & print checks
Easily create and print checks. Aggregate all your checks to be paid and print them in one batch. QuickBooks will keep track of each check so you can keep tabs on where your money is going.

Create & e-mail invoices
Use the data you already have in QuickBooks--such as customer contact info & products/services--to make creating invoiced a snap. Choose from pre-designed QuickBooks templates or customize the layout yourself.

Organize data on customers, vendors, and employees all in one place
No more hunting through piles of files or trying to remember where you stashed that important paper. QuickBooks organizes all your important small business information in one place, giving you easy access to a complete picture of your business.

Import data from Excel, Quicken/ Quicken for Mac, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Get up and running fast by importing data from the tool you use to track your finances now. However little or much data you currently have, you won't have to start over from scratch.

Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks. Click to enlarge.

Create purchase orders. Click to enlarge.

Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing. Click to enlarge.

Manage payroll & payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required). Click to enlarge.

Save time & be more efficient

Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks
Save time and avoid data entry errors. Instead of typing in your bank and credit card transactions, download them securely from over 3000 participating financial institutions and easily import them into QuickBooks.

Enter bills and set due-date reminders
QuickBooks helps you ensure you pay your bills on time. Record bills as they come and set a reminder to make sure you pay before the due date.

Export data into Excel
Export data from QuickBooks reports to Excel spreadsheets so that you can do more complex analysis or graphing in Excel.

Track international sales & expenses with multiple currency support
QuickBooks supports all global currencies and does all the currency calculations for you. You can even download exchange rates or do wire transfers from right in QuickBooks.

Manage products & inventory

Create purchase orders
You can create purchase orders in seconds by selecting from vendors and inventory already in your QuickBooks. When you get the inventory in-house and record it in QuickBooks, QuickBooks will remember you have an open purchase order and automatically match the PO to the inventory bill.

Track inventory
Easily track your inventory to avoid overbuying and backorders. Indicate re-order points for each inventory good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder.

Advanced Tools to track raw & finished goods
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions help you address your more complex inventory & product management needs including: tracking both raw materials & finished goods, adjusting inventory as you creating bills of material (BOMs), and receiving inventory in one unit of measure and selling in another.

Monitor performance & gain insights

Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing
Get pre-designed, customizable business reports to gain insights into your business. See all available reports in one screen to easily choose the right one. Drill down with one click to see the detail behind the numbers. Export any report to Excel--your QuickBooks formatting and formulas go with it. Access industry-specific reports In QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions.

Create budgets to keep your business on track
Create a working budget automatically, based on your recent spending history. Adjust figures individually or across line items. The spreadsheet-style format makes it easy to see the results of your changes. Refer back to the budget to see how your actual spending compares to your original budget.

Get a real-time snapshot of your business, in one central location with the Company Snapshot
Stay on top of your business- see who owes you money, who you owe money to, important reminders, and income/expense performance, all in one centralized location

Easily create a business plan; Forecast sales and expenses
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel for further analysis or save it as a PDF file. Click a button to create a forecast of income and expenses for the coming year, based on your existing QuickBooks data. Increase or decrease line items by any percentage to adjust for future changes.

Manage Employees

Manage payroll & payroll taxes ; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required)
Intuit QuickBooks Payroll Services, QuickBooks Payroll for Mac powered by PayCycle, and Payroll for QuickBooks Online save you time by eliminating steps and giving you the tools to get your payroll done right.

Automatically populate and print 1099s for independent contractors and federal filing
Create and print 1099 tax forms for you and your independent contractors.

Track employee time and expenses. Click to enlarge.

Track customer information and related transactions. Click to enlarge.

Work simultaneously with other QuickBooks users on your company file. Click to enlarge.

Ask questions and get answers from experts and other small businesses like you, through Live Community, right in QuickBooks. Click to enlarge.

Track time & billing

Track employee time and expenses
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill, QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.

Assign different billing rates for different types of employees
QuickBooks provides the flexibility of setting different billing rates by employee and service type. You can set a fixed hourly rate for each employee or create custom hourly rates by service.

Allow employees to enter billable & non-billable time online, from anywhere with an internet connection
Time tracking is automatically included with QuickBooks Online Plus. Time Tracker for QuickBooks Pro and Premier, an optional subscription service, is the fastest, easiest way to collect and record billable and non-billable hours into QuickBooks Pro and Premier for accurate invoicing, payroll and reporting purposes. No more paperwork! Employees or contractors only need an internet connection to submit billable hours Download timesheets right into QuickBooks with one click.

Attract Customers & Manage Customer Relationships

Track customer information and related transactions
Keep customer contact and transaction information in QuicKBooks, so you can follow up on past-due accounts and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer.

Accept credit card payments right in QuickBooks
Process credit card approvals right in your QuickBooks software. If you use Intuit QuickBooks Merchant Services, the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks when you make a sale. And, it has no teaser rates, no hidden fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.

Easily create a professional website with customizable templates and drag-and-drop tools.
Save time with easy-to-use website creation tools including customizable templates, one-click publishing, and website hosting. Everything is included to get your site live within minutes. Point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools. Know how well your site is doing with website tracking and statistics.

Create & customize professional-looking invoices and other forms with advanced customization tools
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices & sales receipts. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present your business uniquely to your customers.

Create sales orders & track back orders
QuickBooks helps you and your customer keep track of backordered items. Invoices, sales orders, and other sales forms show which items have been invoiced, which items have been backordered, and the quantities backordered.

Set price levels
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions help you address your more complex pricing needs such as customize prices for different groups of customers or jobs (i.e. corporate, loyal, high-volume, etc.) with more price levels (up to 100).

Multiple Users & Multiple Locations

Work simultaneously with other QuickBooks users on your company file
Multiple-user functionality enables more than one person to work on a company file at the same time, increasing collaboration and productivity. It ensures that all users are working on the most up-to-date data.

Set individual access levels for each user
Restrict access for other users to only certain parts of your QuickBooks data so that employees only see the data they need to get their work done. For QuickBooks Pro and Premier, you can restrict access to 9 broad categories. QuickBooks Online Plus and Enterprise Solutions restrict access on a more detailed level to specific tasks and information. Customize each user's access level to view-only, create, modify, delete, print or any combination thereof for Enterprise Solutions.

Real time remote multi-location access service included
Access your QuickBooks data remotely. Remote access is automatically built into your QuickBooks Online subscription, so there's no need to send files back and forth. For QuickBooks Pro and Premier, get up to 1 year free access to your QuickBooks data through WebEx. You can use Windows Terminal Services with Enterprise Solutions to allow password-protected access by authorized users.

Support for your product & data

Ask questions and get answers from experts and other small businesses like you, through Live Community, right in QuickBooks
Ask a Question: Ask QuickBooks users like you for help on anything from how to use QuickBooks to how to grow your business. Chances are, someone else has had the same question you do. Discover Answers: See what others are talking about. You will be able to see Questions & Answers relevant to what you're looking for, so you can find your answer right away. Help Others: Give advice and share your own knowledge of QuickBooks.

Industry Specific Features

Create customizable reports designed for your industry
Access over 150 industry-specific reports In QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions such as:--Profitability by Product for manufacturing and wholesale businesses--Job/ Project Costs for professional services firms & contracting businesses--Donor Contribution Summary for nonprofit organizations--Sales Tax Liability for retail businesses.

Get set up and running quickly. Click to enlarge.

Step by step coaching for new users. Click to enlarge.

Learn QuickBooks quickly with built-in tutorials. Click to enlarge.

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Connect with other QuickBooks users and experts. Click to enlarge.

Easily Get Started

Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even preview your data before you transfer it.

Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006, and Microsoft Office Accounting/Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into QuickBooks 2009.

Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

Step-by-step Coaching for New Users to Help you Learn QuickBooks Faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.

Upgrade your QuickBooks Effortlessly
Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2009. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Get Help When You Need It

Find Answers Fast
Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product, onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

Connect with Other QuickBooks Users and Experts to Get Help and Share Ideas
Connect with a vibrant community of QuickBooks users, QuickBooks experts, accountants, and Intuit employees. Instant access to a wealth of questions and answers to assist with QuickBooks and small business problems.

Reports

With QuickBooks reports, you'll always know where your business stands. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Learn where your business is profitable and where you're losing money. You can also customize report templates to best meet your needs.

QuickBooks Premier Reports

• Profit & Loss Standard
  How much money did my company make or lose over a specific period of time?
  
  
• Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
  What is the detailed information about each inventory item, organized by vendor?
  
  
• Purchases by Item Summary
  For each item or service, how many has my company bought, and what is the total amount spent?
  
  
• A/P Aging Detail
  Which bills are due and overdue?
  
  
• Profit & Loss Budget Performance
  How do the actual income and expenses compare to what has been budgeted for the current month and year?
  
  
• Statement of Cash Flows
  What was the cash inflow (from profit and additional cash received) and cash outflow (cash spent) during a specific period of time?
  
  
• Income Tax Detail
  What transactions make up each amount on my company's income tax forms?
  
  
• Forecast Overview
  What are my company's forecasted income and expenses each month?
  
  
• Forecast vs. Actual
  How did my company's forecast compare with its actual performance?
  
  
• Closing Date Exception Report
  What changes were made after the last closing date was set to transactions dated on or before that closing date?
  
  
• Open Sales Orders by Customer
  What are the open sales orders for each customer or job?

QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2009 Reports

With QuickBooks reports you can review and adjust your clients' accounting records and then generate a wide selection of financial reports. Your clients will use the reports and always know where their businesses stand. See who owes them money and how much. Learn where their business is profitable and where they are losing money. Customize the report templates to best meet both your needs.

Reports Found in Premier Accountant Edition:

• Adjusted Trial Balance
  What are the effects of my adjustments on the trial balance?
  
  
• Forecast vs. Actual
  How did my company's forecast compare with its actual performance?
  
  
• Adjusted Journal Entries
  Lists all adjustments you've made.
  
  
• Fixed Asset Manager
  Over 20 different reports including asset schedules and property tax listing.
  
  
• Forecast Overview
  What are my company's forecasted income and expenses each month?
  
  
• Closing Date Exception Report
  What changes were made after the last closing date was set to transactions dated on or before that closing date?
  
  
• Open Sales Orders by Customer
  What are the open sales orders for each customer or job?
  
  
• Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
  What is the detailed information about each inventory item, organized by vendor?
  
  
• Profit & Loss Budget Performance
  How do the actual income and expenses compare to what has been budgeted for the current month and year?
  
  
• Purchases by Item Summary
  How much has my company spent on purchased items or services?
  
  
• Profit & Loss Standard
  How much money did my company make or lose over a specific period of time?
  
  
• A/P Aging Detail
  Which bills are due and overdue?
  
  
• Statement of Cash Flows
  What was the cash inflow (from profit and additional cash received) and cash outflow (cash spent) during a specific period of time?
  
  
• Income Tax Detail
  What transactions will need to be included on my company income tax forms?
  
  

Product Description

QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition is a comprehensive bookkeeping, write-up, and financial reporting tool designed for accounting professionals who work with QuickBooks clients. Perform write-up, review, and financial reporting with built-in tools like the Working Trial Balance. Provide the convenience of "on-site" service without leaving your office via the internet. Exchange, adjust and return client prior period accounting records with the improved Accountant's Copy. Prevent, find, and fix client errors with password-protected close dates and the new Client Data Review.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!, March 25, 2009

By 

James P. Andersen "andersenjp" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2009 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!!

I am a QB Pro Advisor and have many QB clients. I am fairly happy with QB overall, but their payroll systems have a MAJOR SECURITY FLAW in them that everyone should know about. I lost a client over this and suffice it to say I'm not happy. QB Enterprise Edition also has this flaw by the way, and QB does not know what to do about it. They don't seem to care either. Apparantly, even though you can lock people out of QB payroll transactions etc., if they have access to the general ledger, then they have access to detail payroll data. The reason for this is that QB posts the detail of every paycheck to the G/L. So if you want to prevent someone in the accounting department from seeing payroll (a typical client need), user permissions doesn't do the trick. Because even though they can't see the payroll transactions in the payroll module, they can see every gross payroll transaction for each employee in the general ledger!!! Great job designing this part of the system QuickBooks!!!!

DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for accountant's too!, October 31, 2008

By 

MB "MBRCPA" (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2009 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Being an accountant, the new "client data review" is one my favorite enhancements in the Accountants Edition of QB. It basically is a list of procedures to be done at year end with the client data file, before we do the tax return. Rather than having to type the procedures in Word (which is what we have been doing) - it's contained inside the client's QB data file and at a glance I can see what tasks have been completed, which are in progress and which haven't been started. We can also write notes related to each review procedure. And best of all - we can print the review and it can be a part of our workpapers.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you own a business DO NOT BUY or DO NOT UPGRADE to QB 2009!, June 7, 2009

By 

L. Agranovich "TBlade" (Boston USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2009 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I am a QB Pro Advisor and I also lost a many client over this problem and suffice it to say I'm not happy.

"I cannot believe Intuit has completely destroyed this product with the 2009 version.

Downloading transactions and matching into a bank account or credit card account is a waste of time and I do mean waste of actual time. We download sometimes 50-100 banking transactions a day and a similar number of credit card transactions. The ability to automatically match those transactions is extemely old school ( a major regression for QB ) as each one must be done manually one by one. Gone is the "add multiple" to allow QB the ability to matchup payees and aliases. That feature allowed the input of hundreds of transactions in less than 5 seconds. Now hundreds of transactions will take no less than 5 hours.

This is the single biggest change between 2008 and 2009, completely for the worse. Any other changes are strictly smoke and mirrors to sell something new with glitz and glamour. If your business generate more than a few banking transactions a day or week, stay away from version 2009. Your online banking "time" will increase to an amount that it will take away from other tasks.

Aside from rushing Quicken and Quickbooks to market with major bug problems in each of the last few years and also sending support calls to India, removing the "add multiple" feature from online banking is the single biggest blunder Intuit has ever made.

Thankfully, I have a backup of my QB 2008 file. It's time to uninstall 2009 and re-install 2008!!!!

Consider yourself warned... " (TheBlade's)