QuickBooks Pro 2008

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
QUICKBOOKS PRO 2008 UK

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Manufacturer's Description
QuickBooks Pro 2008 is designed with the customer in mind. Perfect for those dynamic businesses with little accounting knowledge but the demand for elevated functionality. Simplified centers will save you time and get you organized quickly, while the easy to follow work flow means you'll keep you're business on track with accurate financial management.

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Customer reviews

review by: Business Accountancy date: 2008-09-03 rating:
Another Accountant's views
I have just seen all the reviews on 2008 Quickbooks and I have to say that I agree with them all, as an accountant I have been very happy to recommend Quick Books until now, but clearly 2008 has major problems. I just moved one client across and had to spend over an hour on the help line to resolve some bizarre figures in the VAT report. I am now still unconvinced that the VAT Report is correct!
At present I am telling all my clients to stay with 2005 or 2006 unless I say so - and before I can do that I am having to take copies of the data and do an upgrade to see what sort of mess 2008 is making of it! Not very good and Intuit really must get this sorted or destroy all credibility in what has been an excellent programme.

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review by: Country Accountant date: 2008-06-24 rating:
Do not buy.
We have used Quickbooks for 13 years and it has been marvellous.
But Quickbooks 2008 is a nightmare.
It crashes constantly.
No longer has multi currency.
The VAT calculations are wrong, the support staff are expensive, you can't understand them, they try to get you to make accounting entries illegal under UK law. They ask you to change correct transaction dates, make up nominal accounts called vat error and then ask you to transfer £100,000's into it!!
Their sales staff lie to potential customers and say that there are no VAT problems, but there are, you only have to log onto their support website 'http://community.quickbooks.co.uk/' and look under VAT.
They are not remotely interested in the fact that you can't complete your vat return from their figures, and tell you that next month there will be a fix. With no regard for the fact that we have vat deadlines and face fines for non compliance. They won't pay the fines. They are not interested they have already banked your cheque. Plus they are making a fortune out of support calls.
If you use this software you will have serious VAT problems and massive accountants bills at the end of the year to sort the accounts out.
I should know I am an accountant!!
We are trying Diamond Discovery Prelude and other software, but not this!!!

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review by: date: 2008-06-24 rating:
Unfaithful with your VAT numbers - should go straight in the bin
An accounting package needs to work. This doesn't.

I can live with the odd rounding error, but I keep finding old invoices which were imported from Quickbooks 2005 and which this version has decided has the wrong VAT amount - it sets the VAT to zero for some unexplained reason. My VAT accounts are wrong, my statements to customers are wrong.

Bottom line is I don't trust it. I hate the hassle of moving programs, but I'm thinking of trying Microsoft Office Accounting which is free if you join their accountants club.

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review by: date: 2008-06-11 rating:
Installation and after sales problems
I have used earlier version (2006) found the software too cluttered. As an accountant it was confusing to see debits and credits both appearing as positives. After sales service is lacking in that when I tried to migrate to a new computer with Vista and it did not work, I was asked to pay for technical support.


review by: date: 2008-05-16 rating:
What no multi-currency?
After using QuickBooks for years and using all the facilities, I rang today to renew my payroll licence. I was offered the opportunity to upgrade from 2006 to 2008, but ... multi-currency has been REMOVED from 2008. The customer services person I spoke to could not guarantee that it would return for even the 2009 version. Although I explained that this was a backwards step, they didn't seem to understand the impact on business.

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