QuickBooks 2009 Helps Small Businesses Find More Ways to Save Time, Make Money and Get Ahead

Get Productive and Save Time

New and improved features help small businesses and accountants save time and become more productive, so they can spend more time doing what they do best.

• Client Data Review: One of the biggest new features in QuickBooks 2009, Client Data Review will increase accountants' productivity by helping them find and correct their clients' errors. Accountants can review and fix errors in account balances, charts of accounts and several other categories, all from a single screen. This feature saves accountants more than 30 percent of time spent on each client, resulting in hundreds of hours saved per year.
• Online Banking: One of the top requested features, online banking saves users time on data entry and increases the accuracy of their financial records by easily connecting to and downloading transactions from their participating financial institution directly into QuickBooks. Small businesses can gain control of their cash flow by seeing which checks have cleared their accounts, which transactions are pending, and get up-to-date account balances, all in one place.

Gain Insights and Information

QuickBooks 2009 offers small businesses a wealth of information, helping them gain insights and run their business more efficiently.

• Live Community: Within the product, users can automatically get general business advice and answers to their QuickBooks questions with Live Community. Live Community enables businesses to share knowledge and best practices with other businesses throughout the Intuit Small Business Community. About 80 percent of QuickBooks questions can be answered right from the product, and users can also get their general business questions answered by hundreds of thousands of accountants, experts and other small businesses owners.
• Company Snapshot: From one easily accessible location, Company Snapshot shows which customers owe money, lists outstanding bills and compiles a to-do list. It provides a real-time business snapshot so that companies can stay on top of their finances and performance without shuffling through endless reports.

Get New Customers and Do Business in a Global Economy

New features also address two big trends for small businesses today - going online to get more customers and doing business in a global economy.

• Multi-Currency: Almost half of U.S. small businesses will be involved in global trade by 2018, according to the Intuit Future of Small Business Report; QuickBooks 2009 now supports all international currencies, eliminating the need to manually account for foreign transactions. It allows small businesses to buy and sell easily around the world and seamlessly manage their finances, customers and vendors at home and abroad.

• International Payments: QuickBooks 2009 users can also connect directly to Intuit's international payment service, making it easy to process wire transfers and drafts in more than 100 foreign currencies right from within the software.

Whether you want the basics, comprehensive tools for a growing company, industry-specific solutions or even web-based access, QuickBooks has a product that's right for you.

QuickBooks offers complete time and job costing, as well as integration with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook, making it a complete solution for growing businesses.

The Easiest Way to Help Your Business Succeed

Save time on everyday tasks

With a step-by-step approach, you get through everyday tasks more quickly.

It's easy to create estimates and invoices

With QuickBooks, you work more quickly than ever on tasks ranging from invoicing and receiving payments, to paying bills, managing payroll and more. In three easy steps, you can see how easy it is to turn an estimate into an invoice, and then receive payment from the customer.

Enter customer information only once

Information is entered once when you create an estimate. That information now becomes available in QuickBooks and is pre-filled when you create an invoice. It's the same for vendor and product information. With QuickBooks, you don't waste time typing more than you need to.

Quickly move from one task to another

It easy to convert an estimate into an invoice in just one click, right from the estimate itself. You use the same easy process to turn a sales order into a purchase order. (Only available in Premier and Enterprise Solutions Editions 8.0).

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See the Big Picture at a Glance

Store and organize all of your information in one place.

No more hunting through files and spreadsheets

If yours is like many small businesses, your critical information is stored in a combination of paper files and a variety of spreadsheets. And this can make it difficult to get the information you need quickly and really understand how your business is doing. With QuickBooks, the guesswork is eliminated. Almost everything you need to manage the key areas of your finances is just one click away from your starting point or Home Page in QuickBooks.

Easily customize QuickBooks for the way you work

The QuickBooks Home Page is designed to easily help you pay bills, track sales, and more. But best of all, it can be customized to meet your specific needs. QuickBooks lets you select which areas of tasks and navigation you have at your disposal. Don't have employees? Simply turn off the Payroll Center feature! (Additional fees apply for Payroll). It's easy to make the software work the way you work.

See key customer, vendor, and employee information at a glance

In addition to the tasks you'll find on the Home Page of QuickBooks, you'll also have convenient access to your information through our organized customer, vendor and employee centers.

See how your business is doing

With all your information in one place, you can create an accurate and complete picture of how your business is doing. One click brings up the report you need: profit and loss, balance sheet, or sales summary, to name just three of the more than 120 standard reports accessible via the built in Report Center. And you can customize the reports however you'd like.

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Accurately Manage Your Financial Data

Still using calculators, spreadsheets, or even a worn down pencil? There is a better way.

Complete tasks with familiar forms and automatic updates

For example, a check in QuickBooks looks just like a paper check. Fill it out the usual way, and your check register is automatically updated, the expense is booked, and even your Profit & Loss statement is up-to-the-minute.

QuickBooks takes care of the math and formulas

You never have to worry about accuracy or forgetting to record something. Since QuickBooks takes care of the math and does all the behind the scenes work instantly, you can be confident that things are right.

Complete tasks with familiar forms and automatic updates

QuickBooks includes the flexibility to help you work with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and other software you use to do your work. Import existing business data, like customer lists and contact information, from Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook to save time and help reduce data-entry errors. In addition to Excel, Word, and Outlook, QuickBooks also easily integrates with 400+ other applications to meet specialized needs.

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