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QuickBooks Pro 2009 [OLD VERSION]

QuickBooks Pro 2009 [OLD VERSION]From: Intuit
Category: Software

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Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 1-user
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Operating System: Windows Vista
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
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CPU Type: AMD Athlon
Processors: 1
System Memory: 128000
Memory Type: DRAM
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Graphics RAM: 256
Graphics Card Interface: AGP
Native Resolution: 640x480
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MPN: 406642
Model: 406642
UPC: 028287019904
EAN: 0028287019904
ASIN: B001ECGT8A

Release Date: October 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
   Complete tasks like paying employees, invoicing, bill tracking and check-writing
   Track sales and expenses, and easily share this data in Word and Excel
   Stay on top of your business by seeing who owes you money or which bills are coming due
   Quickly create your own professional-looking custom forms
   Over 100 included templates for reporting

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Product Description
QUICKBOOKS PRO 2009 WIN

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Small business accounting software that makes accounting easy with tools to organize your finances all in one place.

Track sales & expenses. Click to enlarge.

Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks. Click to enlarge.

Create purchase orders. Click to enlarge.

Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing. Click to enlarge.

Track employee time and expenses. Click to enlarge.

Key Features

Track financial information in one place

Track sales & expenses
Get rid of the piles of paperwork. Easily enter customer payments & bills from vendors. Since QuickBooks organizes everything in one place, you'll be able to access all past payments & bills for each customer and vendor with just a few clicks.

Pay bills & print checks
Easily create and print checks. Aggregate all your checks to be paid and print them in one batch. QuickBooks will keep track of each check so you can keep tabs on where your money is going.

Create & e-mail invoices
Use the data you already have in QuickBooks--such as customer contact info & products/services--to make creating invoiced a snap. Choose from pre-designed QuickBooks templates or customize the layout yourself.

Organize data on customers, vendors, and employees all in one place
No more hunting through piles of files or trying to remember where you stashed that important paper. QuickBooks organizes all your important small business information in one place, giving you easy access to a complete picture of your business.

Import data from Excel, Quicken/ Quicken for Mac, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Get up and running fast by importing data from the tool you use to track your finances now. However little or much data you currently have, you won't have to start over from scratch.

Save time & be more efficient

Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks
Save time and avoid data entry errors. Instead of typing in your bank and credit card transactions, download them securely from over 3000 participating financial institutions and easily import them into QuickBooks.

Enter bills and set due-date reminders
QuickBooks helps you ensure you pay your bills on time. Record bills as they come and set a reminder to make sure you pay before the due date.

Export data into Excel
Export data from QuickBooks reports to Excel spreadsheets so that you can do more complex analysis or graphing in Excel.

Track international sales & expenses with multiple currency support
QuickBooks supports all global currencies and does all the currency calculations for you. You can even download exchange rates or do wire transfers from right in QuickBooks.

Manage products & inventory

Create purchase orders
You can create purchase orders in seconds by selecting from vendors and inventory already in your QuickBooks. When you get the inventory in-house and record it in QuickBooks, QuickBooks will remember you have an open purchase order and automatically match the PO to the inventory bill.

Track inventory
Easily track your inventory to avoid overbuying and backorders. Indicate re-order points for each inventory good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder.

Advanced Tools to track raw & finished goods
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions help you address your more complex inventory & product management needs including: tracking both raw materials & finished goods, adjusting inventory as you creating bills of material (BOMs), and receiving inventory in one unit of measure and selling in another.

Monitor performance & gain insights

Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing
Get pre-designed, customizable business reports to gain insights into your business. See all available reports in one screen to easily choose the right one. Drill down with one click to see the detail behind the numbers. Export any report to Excel--your QuickBooks formatting and formulas go with it. Access industry-specific reports In QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions.

Create budgets to keep your business on track
Create a working budget automatically, based on your recent spending history. Adjust figures individually or across line items. The spreadsheet-style format makes it easy to see the results of your changes. Refer back to the budget to see how your actual spending compares to your original budget.

Get a real-time snapshot of your business, in one central location with the Company Snapshot
Stay on top of your business- see who owes you money, who you owe money to, important reminders, and income/expense performance, all in one centralized location

Easily create a business plan; Forecast sales and expenses
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel for further analysis or save it as a PDF file. Click a button to create a forecast of income and expenses for the coming year, based on your existing QuickBooks data. Increase or decrease line items by any percentage to adjust for future changes.

Manage Employees

Manage payroll & payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required)
Intuit QuickBooks Payroll Services, QuickBooks Payroll for Mac powered by PayCycle, and Payroll for QuickBooks Online save you time by eliminating steps and giving you the tools to get your payroll done right.

Automatically populate and print 1099s for independent contractors and federal filing
Create and print 1099 tax forms for you and your independent contractors.

Track customer information and related transactions. Click to enlarge.

Work simultaneously with other QuickBooks users on your company file. Click to enlarge.

Ask questions and get answers from experts and other small businesses like you, through Live Community, right in QuickBooks. Click to enlarge.

Track time & billing

Track employee time and expenses
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill, QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.

Assign different billing rates for different types of employees
QuickBooks provides the flexibility of setting different billing rates by employee and service type. You can set a fixed hourly rate for each employee or create custom hourly rates by service.

Allow employees to enter billable & non-billable time online, from anywhere with an internet connection
Time tracking is automatically included with QuickBooks Online Plus. Time Tracker for QuickBooks Pro and Premier, an optional subscription service, is the fastest, easiest way to collect and record billable and non-billable hours into QuickBooks Pro and Premier for accurate invoicing, payroll and reporting purposes. No more paperwork! Employees or contractors only need an internet connection to submit billable hours Download timesheets right into QuickBooks with one click.

Attract Customers & Manage Customer Relationships

Track customer information and related transactions
Keep customer contact and transaction information in QuicKBooks, so you can follow up on past-due accounts and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer.

Accept credit card payments right in QuickBooks
Process credit card approvals right in your QuickBooks software. If you use Intuit QuickBooks Merchant Services, the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks when you make a sale. And, it has no teaser rates, no hidden fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.

Easily create a professional website with customizable templates and drag-and-drop tools.
Save time with easy-to-use website creation tools including customizable templates, one-click publishing, and website hosting. Everything is included to get your site live within minutes. Point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools. Know how well your site is doing with website tracking and statistics.

Create & customize professional-looking invoices and other forms with advanced customization tools
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices & sales receipts. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present your business uniquely to your customers.

Create sales orders & track back orders
QuickBooks helps you and your customer keep track of backordered items. Invoices, sales orders, and other sales forms show which items have been invoiced, which items have been backordered, and the quantities backordered.

Set price levels
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions help you address your more complex pricing needs such as customize prices for different groups of customers or jobs (i.e. corporate, loyal, high-volume, etc.) with more price levels (up to 100).

Multiple Users & Multiple Locations

Work simultaneously with other QuickBooks users on your company file
Multiple-user functionality enables more than one person to work on a company file at the same time, increasing collaboration and productivity. It ensures that all users are working on the most up-to-date data.

Set individual access levels for each user
Restrict access for other users to only certain parts of your QuickBooks data so that employees only see the data they need to get their work done. For QuickBooks Pro and Premier, you can restrict access to 9 broad categories. QuickBooks Online Plus and Enterprise Solutions restrict access on a more detailed level to specific tasks and information. Customize each user's access level to view-only, create, modify, delete, print or any combination thereof for Enterprise Solutions.

Real time remote multi-location access service included
Access your QuickBooks data remotely. Remote access is automatically built into your QuickBooks Online subscription, so there's no need to send files back and forth. For QuickBooks Pro and Premier, get up to 1 year free access to your QuickBooks data through WebEx. You can use Windows Terminal Services with Enterprise Solutions to allow password-protected access by authorized users.

Support for your product & data
Ask questions and get answers from experts and other small businesses like you, through Live Community, right in QuickBooks Ask a Question: Ask QuickBooks users like you for help on anything from how to use QuickBooks to how to grow your business. Chances are, someone else has had the same question you do. Discover Answers: See what others are talking about. You will be able to see Questions & Answers relevant to what you're looking for, so you can find your answer right away. Help Others: Give advice and share your own knowledge of QuickBooks.

Get set up and running quickly. Click to enlarge.

Step by step coaching for new users. Click to enlarge.

Learn QuickBooks quickly with built-in tutorials. Click to enlarge.

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Get set up and running quickly. Click to enlarge.

Industry Specific Features

Create customizable reports designed for your industry
Access over 150 industry-specific reports In QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions such as:

  • Profitability by Product for manufacturing and wholesale businesses
  • Job/ Project Costs for professional services firms & contracting businesses
  • Donor Contribution Summary for nonprofit organizations
  • Sales Tax Liability for retail businesses

Easily Get Started

Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even preview your data before you transfer it.

Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006, and Microsoft Office Accounting/Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into QuickBooks 2009.

Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

Step-by-step Coaching for New Users to Help you Learn QuickBooks Faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.

Upgrade your QuickBooks Effortlessly
Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2009. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Get Help When You Need It

Find Answers Fast
Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product, onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

Connect with Other QuickBooks Users and Experts to Get Help and Share Ideas
Connect with a vibrant community of QuickBooks users, QuickBooks experts, accountants, and Intuit employees. Instant access to a wealth of questions and answers to assist with QuickBooks and small business problems.

QuickBooks Pro Reports

With QuickBooks reports, you'll always know where your business stands. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Learn where your business is profitable and where you're losing money. You can also customize report templates to best meet your needs.
  • Profit & Loss Standard
    How much money did my company make or lose over a specific period of time?

  • Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
    What is the detailed information about each inventory item, organized by vendor?

  • Purchases by Item Summary
    For each item or service, how many has my company bought, and what is the total amount spent?

  • A/P Aging Detail
    Which bills are due and overdue?

  • Profit & Loss Budget Performance
    How do the actual income and expenses compare to what has been budgeted for the current month and year?

  • Statement of Cash Flows
    What was the cash inflow (from profit and additional cash received) and cash outflow (cash spent) during a specific period of time?

  • Income Tax Detail
    What transactions make up each amount on my company's income tax forms?



Customer Reviews:
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1 out of 5 stars Quickbooks not system 7 compatible   July 11, 2010
Yvonne
After running Microsoft'S update agent for system 7 and checking with Intuit, I upgraded to system 7. At the time, both MS and Intuit said that QB pro 2009 was "certified" MS 7 compliant. IT IS NOT. If you check, MS still says it is, but Intuit has pulled its "certification." (System 7 has also been removed in the AMAZON listing as an operating system.) If you upgrade to system 7, QB pro 2009 will run, but be prepared for a lot of errors and problems.


5 out of 5 stars good   April 25, 2010
Lee M. Thompson (Rockford, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

works pretty goood. bought it for quickbooks pro training class and then started to use it for our business.


1 out of 5 stars Get out the tylenol- this is the worst thing you could buy   February 13, 2010
DiprivanRN (Arlington, TN United States)
Quickbooks is quite the opposite of my experience with this program. It is quite the pain in the butt to use. The workflow is a pain in the neck to use because it is cumbersome. If you vary one little bit, you will screw yourself up. If you download transactions from the bank, the transaction will not reconcile if the dollar ammount is not the same as in quickbooks- there is no option to modify the billing after you receive the invoice (I normally have small shipping charges added to my invoices that are not present when I order) Anyway, I have to go back and delete the transaction from the register, delete the bill payment, delete the reception of inventory THEN add the shipping to the purchase order and go forward again. What a piece of CRAP... I will be scrapping this program for something else.


4 out of 5 stars QuickbooksPro 2009   February 1, 2010
Tina Lorenzo (NYC,NY)
I'm enjoying this product for the most part - my only complaint would be that live chat screen that will not be deleted and it takes up screen space. But, besides that inconvenience the program enhancements are very helpful and I am not having had any problems with the upgrade or links thus far.
I would suggest this product for use for most small businesses.



5 out of 5 stars QuickBooks Much Better Than Quicken   January 10, 2010
John S. Pool (Moscow, Idaho)
After keeping the books for our club for 2009 on Quicken, I switched to QuickBooks Pro 2009 for my 2010 bookkeeping, and the new software is worth every penny. It does what I need to do so much better than Quicken, and sets up a much better paper trail. I think Quicken would be fine as a checkbook balancer for the home user, but I found it much too simplistic, and the reports function far too limited, to serve very well as a bookkeeping product for a club or organization.



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Worthwhile Reading

Expectations Versus Reality in Retirement
By Marc Cram

As we baby boomers approach retirement many of us have started to take a much closer look at what we will need in the form of assets if we are to live to the age of 80 and beyond. Most of us have been very focused on accumulation of assets up to this point and may not have stopped to consider what the future outcomes might look like.

We all have had expectations of what our accounts might look like and some of us have had those expectations dashed by market corrections or other financial setbacks. I think it is time that we took a close look at what other expectations we have for the future versus what reality might spring upon us. If we are to be successful in our own retirements we should move toward it with our eyes wide open and our plans firmly in place.

What follows is a short examination of five areas that each of us should prepare for and a few ideas that might help you improve your chances of success. Some of this might appear to be doomsday like but I think we will all be better off if we prepare for the worst while expecting the best, so let’s dig in.

Expectation #1: The stock market will continue to provide above average returns well into the next decade.

We know that investing in the stock market has produced the best chance of growing our assets at rates that beat inflation and other fixed money instruments over time. If you stay invested you will always get the average market return for the period you are in the market.

One thing we can say for sure about the markets, though, is that they will never go straight up or straight down. We tend to see periods of growth and periods of stagnation. In the short-term no one can predict whether you will make or lose money but we know that over the long term (10 plus years) you will get whatever the markets return.

The danger for us going forward is that when we start taking income from our investments, every negative year will shorten the lifespan of our potential income stream by as much as 5 years or more. If we want to live comfortably to ages of 85 or 90 we will need more predictable returns than those odds will give us. Are you willing to bet that the markets will perform the way you want them to when you get ready to retire? I don’t think any of us is willing to take that bet and that is why more and more of us are looking for instruments that will guarantee us a minimum return and lifetime income streams with the money we already have accumulated. A little research on your part should yield some good choices for those assets you can’t afford to lose.

Expectation #2: I will be in lower tax bracket when I retire.

I am sure you have been told this by every planner or investment professional you have ever talked to. They all encouraged you to fully fund your IRAs and 401ks because of the current tax deductions and the tax deferred growth with the promise that when you retired you will be in a lower tax bracket. I have conducted seminars for over 5 years now where I ask the question of my audience, “do you think future tax rates will be lower, the same or higher”? I can count on one hand the number of people who said lower or the same. When you look at our country’s current level of debt along with the future liabilities for our major entitlement programs (which we will look at next) I think you too will be hard pressed to think your taxes will even stay the same going forward, let alone reduce.

Whatever your current tax bracket is, can you imagine living on less than you are today? If your income stays the same and your deductions disappear because your kids are gone and your home is paid off, what chance do you have to reduce your tax burden? The reality is that during a 20 year retirement, if you have accumulated all of your retirement assets in tax-deferred accounts, you will pay 10 times more in taxes than you saved in taxes over your lifetime, assuming no tax increase. Every increase in taxes going forward will mean you will need to take more money out of your savings to maintain the same lifestyle.

One way to solve this dilemma is to start funding a private tax-free retirement plan using an insurance product that is linked to a market index and designed to provide maximum cash accumulation with a minimum death benefit. This product is known as equity indexed universal life. Here again, a little research on your part will reveal multiple, high quality companies that currently offer these products.

Expectation # 3: I can count on Medicare and Social Security to be there for me like it was for my parents.

The reality is that both of these programs are in trouble and will only get worse as the 80 million baby boomers enter retirement. Ask anyone under the age of 40 if they think Social Security will be there for them and you will soon see that this reality is already well entrenched in our culture. The facts are that 60% of current retirees say that 50% of their income currently comes from Social Security, 34% say that it is 90% of their income and 22% say that it is 100% of their income.

By one account, it is predicted that by 2019 Medicare will consume 24% of all tax receipts and by 2042 it will consume 51% of all taxes collected.1 If you think universal health care will solve this problem, you must realize that Medicare is a form of universal health care and anything that will replace it will be burdened by the same reality of baby boomers living much longer in retirement than their parents ever did.

As for Social Security, it is predicted that the Social Security trust fund will begin be tapped into in 2018 and be completely depleted by 2044.2 If we had made changes to this program years ago we might have been able to extend it but I don’t see any congress willing to touch this problem until it is too late.

The bottom line is that benefits will need to go down, we will need to wait longer to be eligible and taxes will need to go up to pay for the massive increases in cost that will result from the higher usage figures projected. We are going to have to become responsible for our own retirement planning and should these promised benefits materialize for us we should feel lucky if we can plan an extra night on the town every month.

Expectation #4: I will live to my normal life expectancy.

This might well be true but then you must ask yourself, what is my life expectancy? When Social Security was instituted the average time spent in retirement was 3 years. Many of us today will spend 20 to 30 years in retirement. Statistically speaking, if you are a single male age 65 you have a 50% chance you will live to age 85 and a 25% chance to live to 92. If you are a single female age 65 you have a 50% chance you will live to 88 and 25% you will live to 94. If you are a married couple age 65 one of you has a 50% chance to live to 92 and a 25% to live to 97.

If these numbers don’t get you thinking about how long you will need for your money to last consider this. One of the fastest growing age groups in the United States are those people over the age of 100. There are currently over 27,000 people over 100 and that number is sure to grow as the baby boomers begin to age.

Expectation # 5: I will stay healthy well into my final years.

There is no doubt about it; we are much more conscious of our health and taking care of our bodies and minds than any generation in the history of the world. We are finding new ways to combat disease and to stave off illness as well as to treat conditions that would have killed us only a generation ago. However, all of this has come at a price and that price needs to be calculated into our future income needs.

According to a study by Fidelity Investments, a retired couple without employer-sponsored health insurance can expect to pay $215,000 for out-of-pocket health care costs like premiums and co-pays. Moreover, this number does not include significant costs like long-term care, which isn't fully covered by Medicare. These numbers also assume you live to your life expectancy and not beyond. Last year these costs rose by 7.5% and we do not know what kind of increases we may see in the years ahead. As we have outlined above, Medicare costs could easily rise by double digits in the next 20 years.

If we add in home health care and long-term care into this equation we can easily double the numbers above and put a further strain on our already over taxed retirement funds. One thing you can do about potential long-term care needs is to purchase a long-term care policy from one of the many experts in this field. What you can do to prepare

The numbers aren’t pretty but there is no need to despair. Whether you have years to prepare for retirement or you are already there you can create a plan to succeed and prosper in your own retirement. To summarize let’s go over the realities again:

• Investment directly into stock market investments can leave you at the mercy of the markets and geopolitical events. You will need to be in investments that can give you predictable returns without the threat of market downturns.

• Taxes will probably be going up over the next few years and into your retirement. It would be best to use your tax-deferred retirement plans early in your retirement and it may be prudent to move them to tax-free instruments at your earliest opportunity.

• Government entitlement programs will take a larger and larger share of the tax revenue in the future and future benefits may well be reduced or eliminated. Start taking responsibility of your future income needs by using instruments that can give you market based growth in a tax-free environment.

• Plan to outlive your own life expectancy. Create plans that will provide income streams you cannot outlive. There are many instruments on the market today that provide living income benefits you cannot outlive and that can be funded with both taxable and tax-deferred assets you now own.

• Expect to stay healthy but plan for the probability that you will need to spend more on heath care in the future. Purchase a long-term care policy that will pay for future needs at home and in care facilities.

One thing you can do right now is to get educated and speak with a professional advisor, preferably one who carries the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® designation. The sooner you take action the greater your success will be. Remember, by planning for the worst while expecting the best, you will be the ultimate winner and your retirement years will be all you have dreamed they would be.

1 According to Medicare Trustee Thomas R. Saving, a professor of economics at Texas A&M University and senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. 2 Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund

Marc Cram is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® in Durham, North Carolina. He works with families to protect and increase their assets using safe liquid investments. Marc holds a free online seminar every Monday evening at 9:00 pm Eastern time and can be contacted through his website at www.cramgroup.com. You can download a free 12 page article on how to safely and conservatively build wealth at www.wealthyyou.us

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