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QuickBooks and Quicken Financial Suite provide a plethora of tools for easy cash management, financial planning, and historical reporting.
Perhaps nothing in this world is more irritating than tracking and planning finances. How many times have we hopelessly struggled to balance our checkbooks or given up without even trying? How often do we resolve to budget our finances and then fail to follow through? To those who have shared these experiences, Intel's QuickBooks Pro version 4.0 and Quicken Financial Suite are blessings from heaven.
Never before has financial mangement been so easy and so affordable. QuickBooks and Quicken Financial Suite provide a plethora of tools for easy cash management, financial planning, and historical reporting.
QuickBooks Pro 4.0 for Windows is a user-friendly accounting package aimed at the small business market. In the past year, version 3.0 dominated sales in the small business arena with 66 percent of retail market share and an installed base almost two times greater than the next competitor. Building on this success, QuickBooks Pro 4.0 has retained the overall look and feel of version 3.0 while adding several new and revolutionary features and enhancements.
Basic Features
QuickBooks Pro 4.0 uses four basic features to help you manage your company's finances: lists, forms, registers, and reports and graphs. A QuickBooks list contains a group of names and information about those names. Lists are used to keep track of vendors, customers and clients, employees, jobs, and income statement and balance sheet accounts. Lists may be added to directly from the Lists window or "on the fly" while entering a new name on a bill, check, or invoice.
QuickBooks forms are windows that look like paper documents. Forms come in two types: (1) those you print and give to people including invoices, cash sales receipts, credit memos, checks, deposit slips, purchase orders, and estimates and (2) those you receive from people such as payments from customers, bills, bill credits, and credit card charge receipts. With the wide range of forms supported, almost all daily business transactions can be easily captured.
QuickBooks registers contain records of all activities in one balance sheet account. Similar to a checkbook register, the purpose of a QuickBooks register is to give the user a view of all...