SubscribeWhat were QuickBooks users reading about in 2011? Here are the articles on our website that had the most reads during the year. Maybe what you learn in one of them will make your New Year just a little better.
1. 13 Steps to Implementing Job Costing in QuickBooks for Contractors
Job costing is an important function [...]
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Our Most Popular QuickBooks Articles of 2011
How to Get Ready for a QuickBooks Upgrade
Getting ready to install a newer version of QuickBooks? Take a few minutes to prepare and you might save yourself some grief.
* Pick a good time. The installation will take a little bit of time, as well the data conversion when you first open your company file under the new version. Don’t do this right [...]
What Changes are QuickBooks Users Planning?
Autumn is typically the time that accounting software users evaluate their software and make plans for the immediate future.
In our experience, some of the factors affecting accounting software decisions include initial purchase cost, ongoing maintenance and support costs, software compatibility and integration issues, functionality, conversion costs, and learning curve.
What are QuickBooks users planning to do [...]
Stay Away from the R8 Update
Intuit has pulled the R8 update to QuickBooks 2011 and Enterprise 11 and their website acknowledges problems with it:
* Error 1603 when installing the update
* QuickBooks won’t open or stops working
* Inventory quantities are inaccurate after updating from QuickBooks 2010 to 2011
* Rebuild command fails (even when data integrity is OK)
The above link on Intuit’s [...]
Hold Off on the R4 Update to QuickBooks 2011
Updated 12/20/10 2:59 pm: There is now a correction for this — see comments below.
There are reported problems associated with the Verify command in QuickBooks if you are running under the R4 update. There are posts in the Intuit Community about this problem in Enterprise and Pro/Premier editions.
Charlie Russell wrote about this and advises against [...]
QuickBooks 2010 R7 Update Fixes Problems
The R7 update for QuickBooks 2010 fixes password problems in QuickBooks Merchant Services and corrects a bug in Payroll that can result in crashes when paychecks are edited or printed.
Details and the download link are available here.
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R11 Release Fixes QuickBooks 2009 Problems
The R11 release to QuickBooks 2009 Pro, Premier, and Enterprise addresses the troublesome PDF printing problem under Windows 64 bit versions, among other things.
List of fixes for R11 and previous releases on the Intuit KnowledgeBase.
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What the F2 key reveals to you
What version of QuickBooks am I using?
What edition of QuickBooks am I using?
What update patch do I have installed?
How big is my data file?
How fragmented is it? (And thus, how potentially unstable is it?)
Where is my data file located?
Where is my license number information?
All these questions and more are easily found simply by pressing the [...]