What's New in Quickbooks 2009

Despite the fluctuating size of the tax code each year, accounting and bookkeeping practices don't change all that much. Many of the big changes in Quickbooks 2009 are in the Enterprise edition or the Premier Accountant's edition. Although changes in the Pro and Premier editions tend to be small tweaks and subtle improvements, a few additions might be just what you've been waiting for: <ul> <li>Multiple Currencies. If your company has gone global, you can now set up accounts, customers and vendors to use either your home currency or a foreign currency. Quickbooks creates additional Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable accounts for each currency you use. When you record transactions in foreign currencies and apply exchange rates the program calculates the amount in your home currency. You can also keep track of the gains or losses you've incurred due to currency exchange rates.</li> <li>Company Status Dashboard. To see all the key info about your books in one place, simply open the Company Snapshot window. This window is a view of your income and expenses, outstanding invoices and bills and reminders. To take a closer look at anything in the Company Snapshot window, hover your pointer over an entry. When the cursor switches to a magnifying glass, double click to see a quick report</li> <li>Share Your Company File With Your Accountant More Easily. In Quickbooks 2009, you can set up an external accountant user so your accountant can access every part of your company file. In addition, your accountant has new tools (like the Client Data Review feature) to help her review and work on your company file.</li> <li>Collaborate With Colleagues. The Quickbooks Messenger sits quietly in the Windows System Tray (usually at the lower right corner of your monitor) until you want to send a message to others working on a company file (to ask them to log off so you can perform administrative tasks on the files, perhaps). Double click the Quickbooks Messenger icon and you can start chatting with another person logged into the file. Or you can send a message to everyone logged into the file. Quickbooks 2009 is also better behaved in a multi user environment. People don't have to log out of a file while QuickBooks is backing it up. And the Server Busy messages that used to pop up far too frequently no longer appear</li> <li>Improved Online Banking. The Online Banking Center is better looking and makes online banking tasks easier. If you forgot to record transactions, you can select a downloaded transaction and fill in the missing info right in the Online Banking Center. You can match a downloaded deposit to a payment you forgot to record in Quickbooks or even to an open invoice. If you already reconciled transactions, you can easily delete downloaded transactions that you don't have to match</li> <li>Live Community. If you turn to Quickbooks' message boards for answers, Live Community brings those discussions one step closer. In Quickbooks, choose Help > Live Community to open a window where you can search for answers from other Quickbooks users.</li> <li>Commands on Shortcut Menus. In earlier versions of Quickbooks, some commands like Delete obstinately remained on the menu bar's drop down menus. You'd be working in a window like Create Invoices or Write Checks, and the only way to delete a transaction was to choose Edit > Delete Invoice or Edit > Delete Check. In Quickbooks 2009, you can right-click these windows (and others) and choose commands from shortcut menus</li> <li>Big Numbers. If your company is wildly successful, Quickbooks can keep up with your ever increasing income.</li> </ul>     2009-07-09T13:24:24Z

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