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Running QuickBooks 2004 Premier Editions

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Great book for discussing the advantages of the Premier editions. If you are looking for the basic quickbooks user guide, then you need "Quickbooks 2004, The Official Guide" (which covers Quickbooks Pro & Basic). However, you need this book in addition to "The Official Guide" if you own a Premier edition and you want to get the most out of it. The information on importing in "Chart of Accounts" (and other lists), setting up "Item Assemblies" (complete with assigning additional costs beyond just parts), and "Tips for you industry" are all well worth the cost of the book.

This book is filled with information that's practical and useful. As an accountant supporting Quickbooks clients running various editions of the software, I turn to this book all the time. All the tips about managing the various editions of Quickbooks are amazing. Learning how to create customized import files to send to clients has made supporting Quickbooks so much easier. There's information in this book I've tried to get from Intuit for years, but never could.

Of about 200+ books I have bought at amazon.com this is the #1 disappointment for me. I am using QuickBooks more that four years and found this book neither useful nor practical whenever I had any question. Author attempts to address quite few topics, but in fact is just fumbling with about any of them. For example, the attempt to address the Professional services edition in three pages (of large font and large spaces) including one containing the Figure A-15 which is a kind of "The Complete Idiots guide how to open a Window by using menu" is just laughable. Or maybe it suggests "contact me if you want something useful"?

I wonder who could find this book as a "useful resource"? May be someone having clear instructions what lists, classes and other QuickBooks tools should look like and having problems to use help to set up them? But even then he/she may lack crucial details of "how" to do that. In addition, there are advice to refer to the other book of the author (and spend another chunk of money) all over this book.

However, if you are looking for anything like the best practices, in depth coverage of any topic, or insights on why to uses any approach - don't waste your money on this rather expensive junk. Instead get and print out free pdf manual or by the upgrade with rather good offline and online help.