QuickBooks: Pro and Premier Editions 2006 Fact Sheet

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1 QuickBooks : Pro Edition 2006 QuickBooks Pro Edition 2006 is the leadin choice of small businesses with 1-20 employees for fast and easy financial manaement. Track money oin in and out of a business more accurately. Routine tasks like payroll, invoicin, trackin bills and check-writin can be done in minutes instead of hours. Generate reports to see how a business is doin and easily share that data with Microsoft Excel. With QuickBooks Pro, small businesses can spend less time on books and more time on their businesses. QuickBooks : Premier Edition 2006 QuickBooks Premier Edition 2006 provides the comprehensive financial manaement and plannin tools needed for a rowin business. Alon with all the day-to-day business capabilities of QuickBooks Pro, Premier incorporates advanced tools to track business performance, build forecasts and create a business plan. Plus, handle more complex needs with inventory tools and remote access to your data. With QuickBooks Premier, business owners will have the tools and business insihts needed to stay on top of it all. In addition, QuickBooks Premier Edition is available in industry-specific versions for accountants, contractors, manufacturers & wholesalers, nonprofits, professional services firms and retailers. Quickly Get up and runnin Improved setup interview QuickBooks 2006 slashes setup screens by up to 80 percent so users could start usin QuickBooks in as few as 30 minutes. When business owners first use it, they start by answerin simple questions in a step-by-step interview. Throuhout the setup process, the lanuae is clear and simple, but if there s ever a term or concept someone doesn t understand, there s help available every step of the way. Based on the way a business owner answers the set up interview, the QuickBooks Home pae is customized for the specific needs of that business. Step-by-step help. QuickBooks ives users all the help needed to confidently complete their tasks. The QuickBooks Learnin Center, available immediately after the interview, uses interactive tutorials to explain fundamental QuickBooks concepts and shows users how to use the proram for their particular business. Plus, the Help feature allows users to enter questions in their own words and provides detailed help, tips and troubleshootin information. Simplifyin key business tasks for better oranization New Home pae. The new Home pae provides users a clickable, raphical overview of their key tasks and shows how they are related all on one pae. It s so easy to naviate that they re never more than

2 two clicks away from their most important activities. From the Home pae, users can also see key account balances, further customize QuickBooks, chane preferences and add products and services that work with QuickBooks. New Customer Center. The new Customer Center provides users with the ability to view, add and edit all their customer information and transactions from one simple screen. Users can easily see all their customers and what they owe. Click on a customer s name and immediately see all their entire transaction history, contact information and payment terms. The new Customer Center also lets users easily find all customers with open balances by selectin this choice from a dropdown list. It s never been easier to maintain vital business relationships with customers. New Vendor Center. The new Vendor Center ives users an unprecedented look at all their vendors and exactly what they owe them from one simple screen. So without runnin separate reports or oin to different screens, users can see exactly how much business they re doin with each individual vendor. If a vendor calls to follow-up on a payment, quickly look up the bill, when it was paid and the check number it was paid with. It s easier than ever to pay bills and provide vendors the information they need. New Employee Center. The Employee Center, like the Customer and Vendor Centers, makes it easier for users to find, locate and manae all employee data and payroll history. From one simple screen users can add employees, and track employee personnel and payroll information. New Payroll Center. With a subscription to QuickBooks Payroll, users can use the all-in-one view of the Payroll Center to easily pay employees, taxes and other payroll-related liabilities, as well as file tax forms, and manae and track payroll expenses. With this service, users also et updates to tax tables and federal/state forms to stay in compliance. 1 Improved customer and vendor manaement features. New customer and vendor list filterin and search capabilities provide sinificantly more control over customer lists, providin faster access to key information. Plus, users can now store multiple shippin addresses and s per customer or vendor. All the essentials to complete tasks efficiently Comprehensive financial manaement. QuickBooks: Pro and Premier Editions include all the QuickBooks functionality to complete routine tasks much more quickly. Payin vendors is as simple as fillin out familiar on-screen checks. When users need to create a new invoice, they click a button and choose the products or services they want to invoice. As they use QuickBooks to create invoices, pay bills and enter expenses, all the data will be there to see and use at any time. Quickly run reports to et insiht into the business and be ready for tax time in minutes. Easily enerate customized reports. With QuickBooks, the status of a users business will never be a mystery. They can always see just what s happenin by eneratin clear and specific reports. Because every business is Requires subscription to QuickBooks Payroll. Add-on services require subscription. EIN and Internet access for certain features required, includin tax table updates and direct deposit. 2

3 different, QuickBooks includes more than 120 tailored reports, which are searchable from the Report Center, to ive users insiht from every anle. And it s simple to customize reports to focus on specific data. Give simultaneous access to multiple users as a business rows. Up to five users can work in QuickBooks: Pro and Premier Editions simultaneously across a local area network (LAN). Separate access permissions and passwords are easily confiured. Five-User Value Packs are available for even reater value. 2 Create and customize a business plan. Usin existin QuickBooks data, easily create a business plan with 3-year projected financial statements and export it to PDF format for effortless distribution or to Microsoft Excel for further analysis. A plan review feature helps to ensure that a user s plan is complete and accurate. *Premier only. Compare a business aainst industry standards. Usin the Expert Analysis tool, users can assess performance trends for their company in important areas such as Profits, Sales, Borrowin and Liquidity, compared to updated data on companies with similar revenues (over 130 industries to choose from). 3 *Premier only. Interates easily with other software to eliminate data re-entry Easily transfer data to and from Microsoft Excel and Word. For years QuickBooks has interated with Microsoft Excel and Word to easily share data and print memos and envelopes. When importin from Excel, users can simply assin columns in Excel spreadsheet to correspondin QuickBooks fields. To export to Excel, users need only to select the desired worksheet and QuickBooks automatically fills it in, replacin existin data with the new QuickBooks data. Users can save preferences for both importin and exportin and use them over and over aain. In Word, business owners can easily create letters for collectin overdue payments and print envelopes usin Word, without havin to re-enter any data. Improved synchronization with Microsoft Outlook contacts. No more re-enterin contact or job information in multiple places. With the new QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook, business owners can manae their data more easily and et in touch with customers and vendors faster. Simply download the free QuickBooks Contact Sync tool from the Intuit website and a synchronize icon will be added to the Outlook toolbar. Users can click once on this icon whenever they want to sync customer, vendor or job information between QuickBooks and Outlook. QuickBooks Add-On applications. For more specialized tasks or tasks specific to an industry, QuickBooks has an extensive community of developers who have built more than 400 applications that work with QuickBooks. Seamlessly sharin data with these applications provides the power, ease and comprehensive Simultaneous use (up to 5 users) requires multiple copies of QuickBooks: Pro or Premier Edition 2005 and Local Area Network. Recommend use by 12/31/06, based on time-sensitive industry comparison. Recommendation may not take into account all critical factors of specific businesses Business software applications, includin Microsoft products, sold separately. For Microsoft version compatibility requirements, see Systems Requirements at Word and Excel interation requires MS Word and Excel 2000, 2002 or Outlook synchronization requires Outlook 1998, 2000, 2002 or Synchronization with Outlook 2002, or 2003 or Outlook Express 5.5 or 6.0 requires QuickBooks Customer Manaer (sold separately). Visit QuickBooks.com for additional info.

4 functionality of QuickBooks, plus the unique benefits of the Add-On applications, without ever havin to enter data twice. QuickBooks Add-Ons (sold separately) are available at Riht for Me capabilities for product-based businesses and accountants Improved Item Manaement. For product based businesses such as wholesalers, manufacturers, and distributors, users can save time with inventory manaement and reportin to easily manae items in QuickBooks. They can now enter manufacturers part numbers as part of an item definition. When they need to order that part, they don t have to look up that part number, savin time and helpin to ensure accuracy. They can also save time while fillin out forms when users enter a description and then chane the item field, they now have the option to keep custom item description or to have it updated usin the item record. Improved Cost of Goods Sold Manaement. More control over settin prices of oods provides better flexibility in manain part costs, enables users to manae cost increases in consumed parts and items more accurately. Improved pricin controls enable users to choose from a variety of different price roundin options, such as to the nearest $.49 or $.99. New Automatic trackin of activities in QuickBooks. Accountants and small business owners can have peace of mind knowin that chanes to important QuickBooks data will always be tracked. With the new always-on audit trail in QuickBooks 2006, users can easily track any chanes or errors that they, their employee, or their accountant may have made. Users and their accountants will also save time when tryin to understand the work done by other users in the company. And, because QuickBooks 2006 is built on an industry-standard SQL database, the always-on audit trail will not materially affect the speed and performance. Optional services & supplies to meet specialized needs Payroll Services rane from the easy-to-use QuickBooks Standard Payroll to the fully outsourced Intuit Complete Payroll Service an easy, affordable and pain-free way to outsource payroll. Intuit Merchant Account Service allows small businesses to process and authorize credit card payments from within QuickBooks. Employee Oranizer puts employee information, uidance for key employment processes, access to current information on employment laws and critical reports riht at their finertips in QuickBooks. QuickBooks Billin Solutions is a convenient and simple way for small businesses to bill customers and accept payments via from within QuickBooks. Support Plans include several options for QuickBooks users, includin the Ultimate Support Plan, offerin an unlimited number of phone and esubmission incidents for 12 months. Additional information and terms, conditions and limitations of optional services can be found at

5 Pricin (MSRP) For both new users and upraders: QuickBooks: Pro Edition 2006 $ QuickBooks: Pro 2006 Edition 5-User Value Pack $ QuickBooks: Premier Edition 2006 $ QuickBooks: Premier 2006 Edition 5-User Value Pack $ Availability QuickBooks: Pro and Premier Editions 2006 (includin industry-specific versions) can be purchased directly from Intuit by callin INTUIT or visitin Startin in early November, they will be available at leadin retailers includin Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, CompUSA, Costco, Office Depot, OfficeMax, SAM S CLUB and Staples. System requirements Recommended System Confiuration At least 1 GHz Pentium III (or equivalent) with 256 MB RAM for sinle users and 512 MB of RAM for multiple concurrent users Minimum System Requirements 500 MHz Intel Pentium II (or equivalent) with 128 MB of RAM for sinle-user or 256 MB of RAM for multiple concurrent users Windows 2000/XP 800 MB of disk space for QuickBooks Pro and 1 GB of disk space for QuickBooks Premier installation Internet Explorer 6.0 required (6.0 provided on CD. Requires an additional 70 MB of disk space) Microsoft.NET Framework CLR 1.1 (Provided on CD. Requires an additional 150 MB of disk space) At least 256 color SVGA video Optimized for 1024x768 resolution, but supports 800x600 with small fonts 2X CD-ROM All online features/services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps modem Interation Requirements Word and Excel interation requires MS Word and Excel 2000, 2002 or 2003 Outlook synchronization requires the QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook tool, available for free at contact_sync/, and Outlook 2000, 2002 or Synchronization with Outlook, includin Outlook Express 5.5 or 6.0, is also possible with Customer Manaer (sold separately). ACT! synchronization requires Symantec Act 3.08, 4.02 or 2000 Compatible with QuickBooks Customer Manaer v. 1 and v. 2 & QuickBooks Client manaer v.1 and v. 2 Compatible with QuickBooks Point-of-Sale v5.0 Business Planner functionality requires Adobe Acrobat 5.0, 6.0, or 7.0 Multi-User Requirements Multi-user mode is optimized for Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 clientserver networks, and Windows 2000/XP peerto-peer networks. Novell NetWare is supported but not recommended. Use in a Terminal Server environment is supported for Windows XP Pro/2000 Server/ Server 2003 Terminal Services.

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