QuickBooks Pro 2001

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005447X
• Item model number: 257006
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,642 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
The 2001 edition of Intuit's popular QuickBooks Pro financial package for small businesses is undoubtedly the most intuitive, graphical, and feature-rich version of this program yet. Besides being a compelling basic accounting package that will let you invoice, do payroll, and plan your business finances, this new version makes it even easier to get started. And, with new hooks into online services for processing credit cards, faxing, and other business options, this package can grow alongside your business.

The interface of QuickBooks Pro 2001 offers a winning combination of ease-of-use for beginners and raw power for more experienced users. There's an interview process to help you set up your business (plus two sample companies to help you get started). Through the use of "navigators"--command windows that let you get to the core features--any manager can get the job done. You can set up bank accounts, manage customers, vendors, and employees, and do payroll and invoicing. This new version also sports a highly graphical interface, including organizational charts to show off the financial flow in and out of your organization.

As with previous versions of the product, QuickBooks Pro 2001 gives users complete control over invoicing vendors, managing employees, and tracking payroll. The banking navigator is a particularly useful feature that will not only let you pay bills and create invoices, but also view all your banking accounts online. With hooks into additional Intuit services (and its partners), the new QuickBooks Pro 2001 helps you take your business further, by letting you process credit cards, set up a Web site, fax documents, and even apply for loans and do targeted e-mail campaigns. It's up to you to decide to take advantage of these optional features (most of which will require additional fees).

Whatever your needs, the new QuickBooks Pro sets a high standard for basic and advanced functionality. Those already using QuickBooks will certainly want this upgrade with its new Web-enabled focus. With attractive new features and a slick graphical interface, this is a product that will earn the loyalty of new users with a nicely impressive range of functionality. In all, this is a powerful and easy-to-use package that anyone can use to get better control of virtually every aspect of any small business. --Rich Dragan

Amazon.com Product Description
Intuit QuickBooks 2001 Pro is a complete accounting and payroll product for small businesses. Extensive tools allow you to manage all financial aspects of your business. Store and track checking accounts, credit cards, and accounts payable/receivable. Bank and pay bills online, create customized invoices and statements, print forms such as 1099s and W2s, and more. Over 100 customizable instant reports and graphs provide an overview of your business at any time. Advanced project reports include job administration; job profitability; job estimates vs. actuals; progress billing; and time reports by name, item, and activity. Organize your memorized reports into groups that make the most sense to you. Keep your place on reports with new QuickZoom, which allows you to go back to exactly where you were in the report, instead of to the top. QuickBooks 2001 Pro online billing lets you e-mail invoices and get paid online, which saves your customers time and allows you to get paid faster. You also can e-mail and fax invoices and estimates directly from QuickBooks. Create up to 20 different price levels for products and services, such as assigning default prices for wholesale, retail, or best customers. Customize reports to look the way that you want. Sort the information in any column or change the order of columns in most reports. QuickBooks 2001 Pro offers improved time-sheet printing, advanced job costing, and time tracking. These and many other features make QuickBooks 2001 Pro a fast and easy way to manage your business.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars QuickBooks Pro 2001: the good, the bad, and the ugly, November 20, 2001

By	J. Turner (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In the quest to find a decent accounting solution for my sole-proprietorship (start-up), I tried and evaluated several trial versions of accounting software packages (QuickBooks Pro 2001, gnucash, gACC, MYOB, and Peachtree Accounting).

The good: Hands down, QuickBooks Pro is the easiest and most intuitive accounting package aimed at small businesses, on the market. I was able to setup the books, generate purchase orders, sales receipts, deposits, checks, with a minimum of effort. The only difficulty is figuring out the QuickBooks way of doing things, but once you do, things fly. I was surprised to find that it will even print out deposit slips (nice feature, especially if you take in a lot of checks).

The bad: Unfortunately it is also the most expensive software package in this class. Peachtree Accounting is about half the cost (but much more difficult to use [double-entry accounting]).

The ugly: Also, beware that the features included in this software package are a little misleading: Setting up payroll requires you to use their payroll update service ($). Setting up a "professional website" requires you to use their service ($). From the trial, I got the feeling that accepting credit cards also requires you to use an Intuit-affiliated merchant account ($?). I never went any further to investigate. Several "marketplace features" were discontinued.

Simply stated, QuickBooks is an intuitive, easy to use accounting solution for small businesses. However, I was disappointed in the QuickBooks Pro version, which charged a premium for features that either contained ongoing hidden charges, or are not likely to be used by most people. My advise: get QuickBooks 2001, not QuickBooks Pro.

83 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a real accounting package., March 7, 2001

By	Charles Warman (Wichita Falls, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a sole practitioner CPA and maintain about 20 separate sets of clients' books in my office. Since both Intuit and Peachtree have "professional advisors programs" which aggressively solicit CPAs to shill for their software, I should also state that I'm in no way affiliated with either of them, nor any other software company (the fact that I must mention this demonstrates where the accounting profession is headed, but that's another story).

I realize that I'm swimming upstream here, but, in a word, I detest Quickbooks. My clients who use it routinely bring me sets of books which they have messed up so badly that I run up big fees unraveling their errors. The reason, in short, is that Quickbooks is not a legitimate double-entry self-balancing accounting package. I believe that it's merely a dressed-up, aggressively marketed version of Intuit's checkbook program, Quicken. Because of this, it's far too easy to make serious errors which the software will not detect. Just one example: A single push of a button will convert your books from cash basis to accrual basis. A client brought me his books which had a cash-basis balance sheet, an accrual-basis P&L, journals and ledgers which were some of both - and he had no idea why nothing balanced (if you don't know what I'm talking about, that's all the more reason to avoid this software)! I keep a current version of Quickbooks on my computer ONLY as an accommodation to my clients who refuse to switch.

Both Intuit and Peachtree have rotten tech support. Both gouge their customers mercilessly for annual payroll updates. Nevertheless, I do my best to get my clients to start with, or to switch to, Peachtree. It's by no means a perfect solution, but it's at least a "real" double-entry system, therefore much more idiot-proof, more powerful, and generally bug-free. The learning curves of the two programs are now roughly equal, since Peachtree has added an optional interface for non-accountants.

Finally, I'm not bashing the company, just this product. I've been using Intuit's professional tax return preparation software (ProSeries) for many years, and I'm completely satisfied with it. But my bottom-line professional opinion here is that Quickbooks is simply not what it claims to be. Use Peachtree, use MYOB, use ACCPAC Simply Accounting - any of which are preferable to this over-hyped and under-powered dog of an accounting program.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why so negative, it cost $... what did you expect!, August 17, 2001

By	Jerry L. Taylor (Melbourne, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We have about a $2 million service company with a little of everything and I have to tell you I love this product. I am not fooled by what it is and what it is not. I am sure if your business is complex you need to be somewhere else, but for small businesses that do not have exotic needs this package works ...period. I am constantly amazed by the features. Yes it is a fancy check book, but cash flow is where the information action is for smaller companies with out a lot of assets to worry about. Very nice invoicing, pretty good inventory if you have any (we don't). When I reconcile the check book we are never off by a penny, I like that.

Don't think you are buying a system suited for GM or IBM or any complex asset intensive or complex billing type company. But for many of us out there with money in and money out it is great.