Quickbooks Premier 2004 - 5 Users Multi-Version

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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 Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• 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.com Sales Rank: #17,735 in Software (See Bestsellers 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

Product Description
MODEL- ITICD00815WI VENDOR- INTUIT, INC. FEATURES- QuickBooks Premier 2004- for Windows 5 User Value Pack (Multi-user mode is optimized for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 client-server networks, and Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP peer-to-peer networks. Novell NetWare is supported but not recommended). 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. Achieve Better Results... Create a business plan and 3-year projected statements for loan applications. QuickBooks Premier helps you easily create a business plan, step-by-step, using your existing QuickBooks data and answers to simple questions. A pro forma balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and statement of cash flow will automatically be projected for the next three years. The business plan is based on the format recommended by the U.S. Small Business Administration for loan applications or lines of credit. Automatically create an annual forecast. You can automatically create an annual forecast of income and expenses using your QuickBooks data. Easily adjust forecast numbers by applying a percentage increase or decrease across a line item. Later, you can compare your forecast to your actual results. Help Improve Profitability... Assess key performance trends with the Expert Analysis Tool. The Expert A

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 (REAL NAME)

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.