This is not a first-look article on why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade, especially if you may be outgrowing QuickBooks. It is #11 in our Why QuickBooks 2009 series, with more coming. I am a CPA - Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor, who spent four months heavily pre-release testing QuickBooks 2009 and using it for clients. It is the fastest, easiest and most bug-free QuickBooks upgrade. CPAs have a legal obligation to act in the client interest, so we now only start new work in the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade.
On October 30 (the last Thursday of most months) I again addres the South Florida QuickBooks Meetup (Fort Lauderdale) on Why QuickBooks 2009? This is the largest QuickBooks Meetup. The meeting and GoToMeeting remote broadcast are free http://quickbooks.meetup.com/
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Why waste time and money with anything else, to produce something less accurate and more likely to need QuickBooks Data Recovery?
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Why not this instead of spending $15,000 to more than $100,000: No way!
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Should you pay extra costs, for supposedly outgrowing QuickBooks, when they are a near total waste of money: No way!
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? QuickBooks and QuickBooks add-ons are clearly the best upgrade for most QuickBooks users. Few even need QuickBooks Enterprise. Should you accept long delays in installing overpriced complex replacements, which impair business management: No way!
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? The many ways to avoid outgrowing QuickBooks, include:
...Understand why few companies are really outgrowing the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade.
...Truth in advertising – QuickBooks recently had 94.2% of the small business accounting
...program market at retail. No one else comes close at any level.
...Much faster QuickBooks 2009 processing
...Speed up QuickBooks techniques
...Shrinking file sizes
...QuickBooks add-ons
This article only deals with: Understand why (very) few companies are really outgrowing the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade. I will revise it when to add references to later related articles.
How small should you be to avoid outgrowing the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade?
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? The Census Bureau does not define small or large business. It had 25 million firms in 2004, of which 20 million had no employees. Only 17,000 had 500 or more employees. http://www.census.gov/
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? The 17,000 largest firms have more than a million establishments (locations and departments)
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? The many small establishments, at even the very few really large companies, can and should benefit from the countless awards Intuit gets for the fastest and easiest drop-dead-simple QuickBooks interface (based on common business forms), the lack of data conversion, the minimal training, the ease of installation and the rapid use of more than 100 Preferences for customizing and increasing internal control. They also would benefit from having millions of users and accountants provide local and remote support and feedback, while sharing research and programming costs, so many QuickBooks programmers can fix up to 100 problems a month. More than 50,000 of the accountants are ProAdvisors, so more professional accountants support QuickBooks than use almost all other accounting programs. The also can benefit from cost, which can be as little as $160 per user. Why should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Unless your big-company software has such features and support, should your establishment decide you are outgrowing QuickBooks: No way!
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Many programs link to QuickBooks, to quickly and easily transfer clean data, extensively checked by users and QuickBooks. QuickBooks also links to 500+ mature, tested, low cost high-volume programs, vastly extending QuickBooks while minimizing errors. However, this is really for the QuickBooks Add-ons article.
Why QuickBooks 2009? There are very good reasons expect QuickBooks is inherently FAR MORE RELIABLE than programs being sold to those supposedly outgrowing QuickBooks. The top 900 Census Bureau firms had 30 million employees in 2004 (average around 33,000 employees per firm). This is 25% of total employment. In 2006 the Bureau of Labor Statistics said there were about 3.4 million accountants, auditors, bookkeepers and clerks. http://www.bls.gov/
Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade if you are outgrowing QuickBooks? Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009 because it will save time, increase accuracy and avoid many problems, while saving you lots of money, especially if you are outgrowing QuickBooks.
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