Benefits
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Affordability
Today’s cash-conscious business owners know better than to spend thousands of dollars on highly-priced accounting software.
QuickBooks Enterprise provides everything business owners need to run a successful business at just a fraction of the cost of competitor products. The software is a function-rich, scalable package with comprehensive support that’s tailored to meet the unique needs of businesses and their accounting requirements. For years QuickBooks has been pigeon-holed as being suited only to small businesses, the software now includes significant improvements in functionality and usability, including simultaneous access by up to 30 users, to satisfy the demands of medium and large companies too.
Complete software packages begin with a single user licence from as little as $535 per year, and as you grow the per user figure can drop to as little as $516.66 each (figures inclusive of GST). The software itself includes comprehensive reporting features, industry-specific editions and multi-company reporting as well as being multi-site enabled to manage business growth. There are many third-party products can integrate seamlessly and numerous add-ons are available.
QuickBooks Enterprise users also receive premium support from a dedicated team of sales and technical systems experts. The Enterprise team assists from start to finish with everything from helpful telephone support and on-site visits to your business to classroom training facilities customised to your specific requirements*.
*implementation, training and on-site visits are in addition to the annual QuickBooks Enterprise licence price.
Security
With larger businesses in mind, QuickBooks Enterprise manages users based on their specific roles within the organisation. Users are divided into Lists, e.g. John Smith and Roles, for instance, payroll officer. Set up is easy, simple to maintain and can be changed at any time by the administrator.
Previously, the software contained multiple security sections each of which was permitted only one password. The complications were numerous: multiple staff with different jobs required individual passwords, multiple staff with the same job all needed to remember a common password, and for businesses with staff needing access to different sections of the software, each required multiple passwords.
Now, access to specific areas within QuickBooks Enterprise is simplified by determining by the user’s role. For example, a sales manager can be set up to access pricing and inventory but not payroll. Once the role has been established, it can be applied to all sales managers. Each individual needs only to remember their individual login details, which also provides the business operator with improved accountability and security.
In addition, the businesses’ home page is customisable with a company preferences component to hide Accounts Balances from that page. This offers additional security while preventing balances from being displayed to others and it is unique to QuickBooks Enterprise.
Reporting
QuickBooks Enterprise users have more than 100 reports and graphs at their disposal. Each is designed to simplify a wide range of business and compliance activities as well as making it easier to work with your accountant.
All reports can be customised to suit individual user and company preferences and if desired, built from scratch while specific transactional details in each report can be drilled into and identified with just a few clicks.
The software’s reports centre interface not only improves access to important company reporting, but gives clearer instructions on the purpose of individual reports and how to modify each to suit individual company preferences.
One of the most valuable tools for any business is the Financial Statement Designer within QuickBooks Enterprise. The program saves time in preparing balance sheets, income statements, financial ratios, cash flow statements and many more. The Financial Statement Designer comes with more than 20 customisable layout styles plus alerts, title pages, notes and compilation letters can all be created and edited to the user’s liking.
In addition, the software includes a variety of industry-specific reports such as those for contractors, retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers. The list of reports is endless. A few examples are job costs, profit and loss, estimates, unpaid bills, and item profitability.
QuickBooks Enterprise is ideal for large businesses, particularly those with multiple locations. The software’s multi-site and multi-company reports connect locations and remote workers with ease. Parent companies and head offices can also combine reports to access data from subsidiaries, divisions or branches.
Ease of Use
QuickBooks Enterprise continues a long-standing reputation as being simple to use, and was developed for business owners, managers and accountants with even the most limited IT knowledge. The software incorporates sophisticated technology and an ever-expanding range of functionality.
More than $1 billion has gone into developing the product range aiming to ensure that it includes everything users need to perform their tasks with the added convenience of doing them with ease, speed and accuracy. The new home page design makes navigating the software elementary by ensuring virtually every function is no more than two mouse clicks away.
QuickBooks Enterprise’s characteristics are dedicated to improving the user experience. For example, transaction recall features allow the software to learn intuitively along the way, saving time while minimising mistakes. Updated company audit features enable business owners and accountants to easily identify errors and correct their mis-postings. The software’s new portable company file format, the ability to set a dividing date and create an accountant’s copy, make it straightforward for accountants to work on client files and make adjustments even while the software is still being used by the client.
QuickBooks Enterprise now makes it easy for business owners to cost-effectively promote and grow their businesses through Google Marketing Tools. Similarly, the home page can be customised to suit the specific needs of the user, increasing usability and security. The ability to set the colour of the home page instantly tells the user which company data file is being used, improving productivity & accuracy.
QuickBooks Google Desktop Search now indexes your entire data file making it much easier to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Scalability
QuickBooks Enterprise is as powerful and practical for one user as it is for thirty.
Available 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30-user packages, the software enables simultaneous access to the same company file by up to 30 individuals. This enables different stakeholders on and off-site to enter data specific to their areas of responsibility, increasing the efficiency of the business. Additional licenses can also be issued so access to, for example a 30-user version, is not restricted to 30 specific individuals.
To incorporate the expanding needs of business owners, QuickBooks Enterprise integrates seamlessly with a number of popular software packages.
In addition, QuickBooks Enterprise features integrated BAS and online lodgement, a handy SuperLink interface for superior superannuation management and integration with Reckon Retail Point of Sale software, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook for smoother business operations.
List size limitations in QuickBooks Enterprise have virtually been removed to meet for the needs of enterprise organisations with hundreds of thousands of inventory lines, customers, suppliers and more.
Integration with the new Reckon Tools Backup product automatically uploads the QuickBooks company file to a secure off-site backup server, improving workflow and more than halving the user’s workload. A wide range of other material can also be safeguarded with Reckon Tools Backup such as sales and customer records, banking information, and even audio files.
In order to realise even greater benefits from the software, a wide range of third-party products can also be incorporated, including project management software, job costing products, payroll administration applications and asset management software.
What's New
With QuickBooks Enterprise 2011/12 you can quickly view your business performance using the company snapshot tool. With 19 customisable elements you can design a ‘snapshot’ that presents the most significant information that impacts your business decisions – with the ability to drill down into transaction, customer or supplier details. Plus, users can choose to view their current information graphically or in detail making it simpler and easier .
Now you can easily prepare and lodge your BAS with Reckon GovConnect, SBRTM enabled software. It helps to pre-fill your e-form with data direct from the ATO and provide you with real-time feedback and lodgement confirmation, so you will instantly know that BAS has been successfully submitted and the refund entitlement or money owed. Find out more about Reckon GovConnect at www.quicken.com.au/sbr
New tools in QuickBooks Enterprise make it easy to calculate payments that help you comply with the Federal Government’s new Paid Parental Leave Scheme. There’s no need to change pay slips or payments summaries, details are automatically represented.
It is easy to export data from QuickBooks into the latest Microsoft Office products, including Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010*. *See integration requirements for details.
QuickBooks new intuitive wildcard search feature now makes it even easier to find customers and suppliers, so you can get on with the job faster.