QuickBooks Premier Non-Profit Edition 2005

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Customized finance-management tools for nonprofit organizations
• Generate reports instantly; transfer expense totals directly to IRS forms
• Create a budget with one click; check budget against actual spending
• Produce thank-you letters, pledge forms, and receipts automatically
• Get a snapshot of any donor or vendor; share local area network

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00062AK2K
• Item model number: 284216
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 25, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,690 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #46 in Software > Business & Office > Business Accounting > Accounting

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

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nonprofit edition isn't really different., April 14, 2005

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Jack Naussau (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

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

I had the, uhm, privilege of setting this up for a nonprofit organization. QuickBooks Premier Non-Profit Edition 2005 was chosen because everyone collectively went, "We need accounting software. And gasp! Quickbooks is catering to nonprofits! And we're a nonprofit! So this has got to be great!" However, it's all the same with an extra name on it. Therefore I recommend taking the the reviews of QuickBooks Premier 2005 (regular edition) into consideration for your purchasing decision. The reviews are bad but apparently they're bad for every single accounting software product on Amazon (really, you'll see).

It is very, very smart marketing on Intuit's part to make such specialized niche versions of their software. They don't seem to have any competitors in "nonprofit accounting" at the office stores. They must be barnstorming marketshare coming up with specialized versions.

I don't know the Quickbooks software well enough to give you an accurate rating. I gave it four stars. I was tempted to give it three, a fair mediocre rating... Quickbooks was not easy or wonderful, or pleasant. But does it do its job? Yes. I think Quickbooks or something like it is necessary, and will pay off big time in the long run. It comes with (a rather good, included) how-to book. If you have the money, go to Intuit's website and look up a QuickBooks Consultant in your area... I'd imagine this genuinely valuable.

Kudos to Intuit for honoring their rebate.

Make sure you check the reviews for the regular edition, as these two are basically the same thing.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great but difficult, October 11, 2005

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S. Roix "S. Roix" (Grayson, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Non-Profit Edition 2005 (CD-ROM)

Quickbooks for Nonprofit does a lot of great things. Just what we needed. However, it was extremely difficult to get started with. We can understand why QuickBooks markets their software support as another profit center - they know you will be calling them for help!

2.0 out of 5 stars does not work on computer with Flash Player 10, October 11, 2011

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Yvonne M. Banks - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Non-Profit Edition 2005 (CD-ROM)

I could not get the software to work on my computers since they all had Flash Player 10. I tried to install Flash Player 7 as the software suggested, but my computers would not allow this. You would have to have an older operating system (older than XP) for this to work, I believe.