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All-in-one financial management to help nonprofits easily show accountability to the Board of Directors. Recommended if your work involves charity, religious, human service, arts, education, or other tax-exempt groups. It will allow you to:
- Get the reports you need for your Board
Nonprofit Edition organizes your financial information the way your Board of Directors, donors, and the IRS want to see it. Generate any of the nonprofit-specific reports with one click. - Streamline donation processing and fundraising
Turn pledge forms into thank you letters and receipts with just a few clicks. See contact information, pledge status and contribution history for any donor at a glance in the new Customer Center. - Automatically track your organization's finances
Get the Nonprofit Chart of Accounts as you enter donations, fund programs, and pay bills. Plus, create a budget automatically. - Work easily with Microsoft Office
Integrates with Word, Excel and Outlook Contacts to save time and reduce errors. - Finish basic accounting tasks faster
Get direct access to bills, bank accounts, pledges, donations, vendors, and reports from the new simplified Home Page. - Start fast and get help when you need it
Get in-product Help focused on nonprofit-specific issues, built-in tutorials and free QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration.
Get the reports you need for your Board
QuickBooks: Premier Nonprofit Edition 2006 comes with eight nonprofit reports (plus 120+ additional reports) that instantly summarize your financial information just the way you need it in order to run your organization, demonstrate accountability to your Board of Directors or oversight committee, and meet IRS reporting requirements. 
- Budget by Programs
Instantly see a snapshot of funding for each of your programs. See how allocated funds and actual expenses compare with budgeted amounts. - Statement of Financial Income and Expense
Summarize your income, expenses and net income in terminology relevant to your organization. Keep your Board and the IRS up-to-date effortlessly. - Statement of Functional Expenses-990
Total your expenses by categories that match IRS Form 990 line-for-line. Just transfer the totals to the form and you're done. - Donors and Grants
See your donors and grantors at-a-glance, including contact information, total contributions, and expenses incurred against each donation or grant. - Biggest Donors
Make the best use of your volunteers' fundraising efforts with a donor list automatically sorted from largest contributor to smallest, for any time period you choose. - Statement of Financial Position
See where you stand, and identify small problems before they become big ones. Provide your Board with a financial snapshot in terms relevant to nonprofit organizations.
Streamline donation processing and fundraising
- Create personalized letters and envelopes for your donors
Generate group mailings of customized thank-you letters, pledge forms and receipts from your QuickBooks donor lists in seconds. You could save days of typing time, and avoid typos. Choose from dozens of pre-made letter templates or create one for yourself in Microsoft® Word. You can customize the templates by adding your logo and mission statement, and including a field for the donation amount. Select donors in QuickBooks, then click a button to send their information to the Word template, creating one letter or hundreds at a time. - See donor and vendor transaction histories at a glance
Maximize the effectiveness of your fundraising campaigns by viewing a complete history of contributions for any donor or grantor instantly. Click a button from anywhere in QuickBooks to open the new Customer Center. Click any name on the list to see contact information and a complete history of contributions, grants, or any other transactionsall in a one window. Use the information to schedule contact at intervals that yield ongoing donations without overtaxing the goodwill of your contributors. A new Vendor Center operates exactly the same way as the Customer Center, providing a complete history of bills and payments for any vendor, so you can easily see what you owe and what you've paid. - Access your organization's data remotely through WebEx (one 12-month subscription included)
Access your organization's financial data from anywhere, anytime, with QuickBooks Remote Access powered by WebEx. Log into the secure Web site from any Internet-connected PC, and work as if you were at the office. Look up any information, create reports and print them locally. All transmissions are protected by the same encryption technology used by financial institutions.
Share data with Microsoft Office applications
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One click synchronizes all changes to your contact lists in Outlook and QuickBooks |
- Avoid redundant data entry with easy synchronization with Outlook
Simply download the QuickBooks Contact Sync tool from our website and a "synchronize" icon will be added to your Outlook toolbar. Just click once on this icon whenever you want to sync customer, vendor or job information between QuickBooks and Outlook. No more re-entering contact or job information in multiple places. With the new Outlook sync tool, you can manage your data more easily and get in touch with your customers or vendors faster. Learn more about QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook. - Transfer data to and from Microsoft Excel
Pull in information to QuickBooks like large groups of customers, vendors and inventory items quickly from Microsoft Excel. Or use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to a new or existing Excel spreadsheets with all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks; Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.
Finish basic accounting tasks faster
- Pay bills, print checks and track expenses
Record bills as they arrive QuickBooks alerts you when they're due. Click a button to turn a bill entry into a check. Print checks one-at-a-time or in batches. - Access tasks with one click from the simplified "Home" page
The new, customizable "Home" page gives you direct access to the features you use every day, plus a clear picture of how they all fit together. No searching through menusyou're never more than two clicks from your data. You'll also see current balances for your bank and credit card accounts, so you know right where you stand without opening a single register.
Start fast and get help when you need it 
- Get set up and running in as little as a half an hour
QuickBooks 2006 makes getting started so quick and easy, you could be working in as little as half an hour. Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time. Import customers and vendors from Excel, or enter them on-the-fly as you pay bills and record sales. If you're already using QuickBooks, your company file and preferences will automatically transfer. - Get fast answers without leaving QuickBooks
You'll find fast answers to most questions in the in-product, onscreen help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword. - 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 alike to help you get the most out of QuickBooks. - Enjoy free support for 30 days from registration
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Product Description
QuickBooks 2006 Nonprofit Edition helps you get more done, faster so it’s easy to demonstrate financial accountability to your Board of Directors. It’s preconfigured for nonprofits so it streamlines your accounting and fundraising tasks. Nonprofit chart of accounts, memorized reports, and templates help you to quickly track and manage your organization’s finances. You can transfer donor information directly from QuickBooks into Microsoft Word to create donation forms, thank you letters, and envelopes with no retyping. Flexible customization options allow you to format reports and donor forms the way you like. You can add your logo or mission statement so that it’s professional and customized for your organization. Plus, the new Customer and Vendor Centers let you see your business relationships and transactions in one glance. There is no need to run separate reports to get the information you want. For example, in the Vendor Center, you can click on a vendor’s name and you’ll see the contact information and every transaction you had with that vendor, all on the same screen. The new, simpler “home” page also means you are never more than two clicks away from all your important business data.