QuickBooks Pro 2010
QuickBooks design is so preoccupied with selling you other features that the actual accounting program is totally subordinate to this marketing campaign. QuickBooks is supposed to be an accounting program. It is in fact a marketing tool designed to sell you more QuickBooks products. That it can also be used for accounting is at best a side effect, because it really doesn't do accounting half as well as it sells you more intuit products.
If you had the misguided notion that using QuickBooks would save you time and money and actually installed it on your computer, you have made a serious error in judgment. You will now quickly learn that QuickBooks doesn't even do what one would consider to be the most basic of functions for running a business. You will also have learned that QuickBooks will gladly offer you that crucial service for an upgrade fee and a monthly service contract.
If you think that paying for all the services will have you costing along, running your business with this amazing slick software, well, you're wrong. It won't be long now before you start running into snags. You will not be able to figure these out on your own because it is designed that way. Oh, but don't worry because QuickBooks will happily offer you a service contract for just such issues, it will only cost you a ridiculous monthly service fee. If you've now paid for all of the products and services it takes to run a small business you are into Intuit QuickBooks for over $500.00 and you have monthly service contracts around $100.00 or more. And as it turns out it still doesn't work that well. The interface is clumsy, the wizards are long, laborious, overly complex and difficult to edit.
My advice is to just simply learn how to use programs like Microsoft Excel and Access. Do a little research on the IRS website and your states taxes. I promise you will spend less time, energy and a great deal less money this way. It is way easier to learn to create your own spreadsheets and databases than it is to learn how to use QuickBooks clusterf@*k of an interface. You will also save yourself a lot of hassle and frustration. Finally you will learn how to use a viable tool like Excel and Access, you will also learn about the taxes and laws associated with running your business which are complex, but not as bad as QuickBooks. These are skills that you can use for other purposes. QuickBooks is not even that useful in its own element, let alone different applications.
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