QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Financial management software for small businesses
• Easily pay bills, print checks, track expenses, and much more
• Export reports to Microsoft Excel; customizable reports
• Transfer data from Quicken for Mac or QuickBooks for Windows
• Takes advantage of more Mac OS X features, including iCal and .Mac

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00062AJQ2
• Item model number: 284186
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 25, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,873 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac offers advanced tools for fast and easy financial management to boost efficiency and accuracy. We've listened to you and made several improvements, including: Customization options to meet your unique needs: more font options and ability to add a PDF file as the background for your invoices, estimates, statements, and purchase orders. You can also make list items inactive, making your lists more manageable. Easily share information with Windows users: Easier to share your QuickBooks for Mac data with Windows users (converts data from QuickBooks Basic, Pro, Premier and Premier Accountant for Windows version 2005 and 2004) and open a QuickBooks for Windows file for use on QuickBooks for Mac. Track information with greater accuracy: New reports include Statement of Cash Flows and Unbilled Costs by Job. New alerts help you avoid underbilling. Easy to upgrade: Quick and easy transfer of your QuickBooks data files (transfers data from QuickBooks Pro 4.0, 5.0, of 6.0 for Mac to QuickBooks: Pro 2005 for Mac. Converts data from QuickBooks Basic, Pro, Premier and Premier Accountant for Windows versions 2005 and 2004.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

95 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice improvement over QB6, but still underpowered..., November 30, 2004

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Raymond Brigleb (Portland, OR, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac (CD-ROM)

I actually kind of like this program. Accounting is a pretty awful task, but QuickBooks makes it fairly painless. It's pretty intuitive, and it's a pretty good program. I was very happy with version 6 for Mac, so I was happy to upgrade. After using it for a day or two, here are my thoughts.

Pros: Intuit has made commendable efforts to bring the look and feel more in line with Panther. Much of the program seems to have lost much of its OS9 baggage and now looks right. It's still pretty crash-proof and very solid. Formatting invoices has leapfrogged the PC version (finally!) now that you can use a PDF for your template. Unlike the PC version, you can (still) email invoices without going through proprietary hoops. The improved PC compatibility is a godsend (my tax people use the Windows version of course) and all of the 'lists' (so central to QuickBooks) have been improved--you can hide unused items, sort the list, etc. All wonderful and much-needed improvements.

Cons: I would love to have all the features PC users pay the same price for!!! Mileage tracking, where is that? Why can't I create a partial invoice (say, 1/3rd of my estimate to a client) like the Windows version can? Where are the video tutorials? There are simply tons of extra things you get in the Windows version that you can't get in the Mac version, even though Intuit charges the same price for the software.

That said, I have both PC's and Macs in my office, and we chose the Mac version, after trying both. Though it has more features, the PC version is a nightmare to use! I'd rather just track my mileage in an Excel spreadsheet than sit at that PC for another hour a day! But hey, don't listen to me, I find most PC applications to be that way. Basically, I think QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac is a great product, and I'm happy to support a vendor that put out solid and useful software for the Mac.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe there's no online banking support!!!!, April 23, 2005

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P. Waydo "subgenius" (Flagstaff, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac (CD-ROM)

This just blows my mind. My cheapo Quicken (actually bundled free) has had great online banking support for years, but pricey Quickbooks PRO does not? What is that? This is 2005 -- I can't fathom how they could possibly release this product without online banking support. It's not like they don't know how to do it.

Other than that I really like it. I'm using it anyway as there isn't really an attractive alternative in my opinion, as they must know...

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another lackluster Mac effort from Intuit., December 30, 2004

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Peter W. Wright "skyuka" (Plano, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac (CD-ROM)

When I asked the customer service rep (CSR) when they were going to attempt feature parity with the PC version, he told me they put so much effort into getting it to look right that there was no room for: cash flow analysis (how hard would this be?), FedEx and UPS shipping, auto logs, and too many more things to list. The CSR said there were "a lot of thngs the PC version would do that the Mac version would not do. Payroll is another application that some reviewers have said would never post properly to QuickBooks. Other reviewers mention lack of online banking features.

I have used MYOB Account Edge(Mac) for years and it is a good application, but it ages differently than Quickbooks, and I am tired of fighting (and paying) my accountant over that. My copy of QuickBooks Mac is going back and I am taking my accounting functions over to the dark side.