Quickbooks Premier 2004 - 5 Users Multi-Version

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Comprehensive tools for fast and easy financial management
• Boost profitability with Expert Analysis, cash flow projections, and budgeting
• Password protection, permissions, and advanced journal-entry options
• Inventory tracking, fixed asset tracking, time tracking, and more
• Create business plans and forecasts; achieve better results

Product Details

• 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: B0000XKBTM
• Item model number: 279967
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 6, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,342 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

QuickBooks: Premier 2004 has the most comprehensive tools for fast and easy financial management, with tools to help your business achieve better results and meet more complex or specialized needs. It includes all the features of Pro 2004, plus much more.

Features:

• Help your business achieve better results by creating business plans and forecasts
• Boost your profitability with Expert Analysis, cash flow projections, and budgeting
• Stay in control of your data with password protection, permissions, and advanced journal-entry options
• Meet your more specialized or complex business needs with inventory and "assembly" tracking, fixed asset tracking, time tracking, address management, per-item price levels, reconciliation, and creating sales orders from estimates
• Find an industry-specific version of Premier to meet your specialized needs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars No Job Costing Capability, December 15, 2004

By 

Robert MacDonald (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quickbooks Premier 2004 - 5 Users Multi-Version (CD-ROM)

On their QuickBooks web site, Intuit advertises that the program can do job cost tracking. I own a small engineering firm, so we used the Professional Services Edition. For a company like mine, 95% of the cost of any job is labor -- people who are billing time to a client. Unfortunately, QuickBooks doesn't record that on the job cost. So for a job where I bill ten thousand dollars for my engineers' time, with no reimbursables, the job cost is zero. That would be nice, but it is totally worthless as far as knowing which jobs are profitable. If I buy a valve and charge it to the client, that cost will show up though.

It seems to me that a program advertising itself as a Professional Services Edition that does job costing would track the cost of labor. But it doesn't.

QuickBooks also tries to force you to use their payroll service. If you use someone else's service, you can use it with QuickBooks only if you buy an add-on package that works with Excel. So instead of having things work seamlessly, you have to export your payroll information to a new program and work with it there.

These problems made the program absolutely worthless for my use. The one thing I will say for Intuit is they have a 60-day return policy, of which I am taking full advantage.