Running Quickbooks in Nonprofits
599447
I have gleaned several great tips from this book on setting up Quickbooks for nonprofits.
2366273
As a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor in Southern California.
It's by far their best program and certainly the way accounting software has become for small business. NO, it is NOT easy enough to SET Up for maximum accounting but absolutely easy and comprehensive enough for any average busines owner to USE on an everday basis. That's why I always suggest someone does hire a Certified Advisor with an accounting background to set up your initial books and if possible, also have them maintain certain aspects.
Intuit's tech support is NOT ideal..that much I will agree with. I do believe with all the new integration with other software AND all the new entities such as Point-of-Sale software etc,there are "growing pains", which hopefully they will resolve .
There are over 120 PREformatted reporting functions in QBooks 2002...along with easier access to all these features. I used to have to format alot more reports for my clients, whereas they are now standard, in most cases.
YES, you have to pay for the payroll...but they have cleaned it up so well, it's a cinch for my clients to do themselves now, if they so choose. In previous editions, IF a client even tried to set it up themselves, the results were NOT optimal.
Job costing, invoicing,Accounts Rec and Payable are far easier for me to set up, train and/or maintain with clients books. This is even more true with each upgrade.
There are reviews BY professionals in many accounting magazines...and QuickBooks is STILL at the top of the stack and growing in the more inexpensive accounting software packages. I am one of those professionals that have used most everything out there in this price range----that is why I direct my clients to QuickBooks.
I have stated before, I am NOT thrilled with raised prices...but again, do I believe it's worth it?? Yes, and even more so now than 5 months ago.
3471072
If your using QuickBooks for the first time it can be very overwhelming.  I didn't find the help section very helpful so I bought "QuickBooks 2014 The Missing Manual" to help me get started and I still refer back to it.  The program is very good at tracking all your business transactions and wonderful for payroll.
4115884
I am an importer and distributor of consumer goods into US. I work with a lot of UPCs,a fair amount of customers and different pricing structures. I found solutions within QuickBooks Pro for everything I needed to do so far. I am pleased with the software and would recommend to others.
3178383
I don't know what I would do without Quickbooks. It is our business lifeline. We use it to keep track of all of our customers information. We also keep track of our accounts payable and receivables. We use it to pay our employees and to pay our taxes. It automatically figures out how much to send for our taxes, which is such a tremendous help and timesaver.
2281272
Finally my business is organized how I'd like it to be.  Quickbooks has saved me a ton of time and money and headache. Now I can spend my time doing what I do best instead of pouring over invoices and receipts.
2003628
I can't think of a better way to get a grip on the financial situation of your business than using QuickBooks.  I have used it since the first DOS version and I know where I stand financially at any moment.

One thing that has bothered me is the addition of "Cloud" based applets within QB.  I have slow inter in a rural area so I disable them.
4730785
QuickBooks is so easy to you and efficient.  I am thrilled to use this in my business.  I would highly recommend it to anyone.  I consider myself not very computer-literate, but found Quick Books very easy to use.
2289365
I have used QuickBooks for many years.  When I started our latest venture in 1999, I came across QuickBooks online Simple Start Edition.  While it has it's limitations, for our needs it is great.  We only have a few clients we do business with. We create invoices, email them, receive payments against these open invoices when they are paid and balance our checkbook.  We run year end reports.  All the things we need are handled with this limited edition.

While I still have an old version of offline QB, I can access this version online from anywhere and run an invoice or receive a payment.  I am not locked to a single machine as I am with the installed software version.

If you are looking for a quick and easy accounting program for a small business, this is it!
1268927
I recently purchased QuickBooks for Mac for my company. I love the program. It does everything I need to be done with computer accounting software and more. I would highly recommend QuickBooks for other businesses. You will not be disappointed. The program not only handles our finances flawlessly, but it gives me a sense that I am on top of the financial picture.
3572118
Quickbooks has done it again in Pro 2016 Small Business -- a great product that's continued to excel year after year. Adapting QB for a religious non-profit organization (the use of this particular purchase) continues to take some extra effort but nothing insurmountable. I recommend QB to any small business or small organization Treasurer as the absolute best way to manage your finances.
1035528
Excellent book! 5 *'s +!!! I highly recommend this book to anyone who uses QuickBooks, whether the business is nonprofit or for-profit. It is a quick, easy read, easy to understand, and full of good information.
3550765
The QuickBooks Database Server Manager requires manual intervention each time our server is rebooted.  The .nd file needs to be erased and the data folder needs to be rescanned.  Also the help function points to a nonexistent web page, but updates can be installed manually.

We are running Vista Home Premium 64-bit with the latest Windows and QuickBooks updates installed.

The QuickBooks full program running on our XP Pro clients is much slower than QuickBooks 2006.  The clients are modest machines with 512MB RAM.

I'm not an accountant so I can't comment on the features or accuracy of the program.
Hence 3 stars instead of 2 for the technical issues.
3287206
I wish I had found this book when I first transitioned from the private sector to running a non-profit organization! Coming from a media background, I was familiar with budgets, etc., but I always had a bookkeeper for the actual accounting, so I found myself having to learn fast on my feet; add to that the need to learn how non-profits differ from for profit business and I felt completely behind the eight ball at times. After the first year, I had a functional handle on it, but things were still not where they should be and the annual financial review proved that there was more to learn.

Enter *Running Quickbooks in Nonprofits*; this book taught me more in one reading than a year of muddling through it and bothering the accountant with "free" questions until he was blue in the face. Not only did I finally get a good handle on the basics of accounting for a non-profit, but I was able to finally utilize the full power of Quickbooks within its inherent non-profit limitations - even the version of Quickbooks for non-profits isn't well adapted for the purpose as it was not built from the ground up for the unique accounting needs of non-profits. With this book, you will learn how to adapt Quickbooks for you non-profit organization and make it work for you, not against you.

What makes *Running Quickbooks in Nonprofits* easy to read and understand and why it delivers is because the author is an accountant working with non-profit clients, so she can deliver real world advice that makes sense to those in the non-profit world.

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A Guide to my Book Rating System:

1 star = The wood pulp would have been better utilized as toilet paper.
2 stars = Don't bother, clean your bathroom instead.
3 stars = Wasn't a waste of time, but it was time wasted.
4 stars = Good book, but not life altering.
5 stars = This book changed my world in at least some small way.
1307971
The only reason I have to buy the insidious Quickbooks every year is because my clients keep buying new versions and there's no backward compatibility.  QB has several insidious features.  Don't use the payroll part of the program unless you're ready to pony up for updates every year or you'll be incredibly hounded by the program forever and you'll have to endure millions of mouse clicks to use the program if you don't pay up.

Quickbooks is a powerful, great program.  I just feel a bit extorted.
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We're using these to store records (minutes, finance reports, etc) for our small non-profit organization.  We plan to use one for each year, moving from all  paper storage to electronic.
1453288
Our accountant suggested we get Quickbooks to put our Realestate business information into. I am struggling with it. Not as user friendly as I had hoped it would be. Maybe with time and experience, also reading the manual I also purchased will help.