QuickBooks Desktop Pros and Cons

Gives me the ability to do deep dives into accounting research.

They have, "Let's walk you through it," introductions, to show you how to use it.

they even thought about different industries, so that if you're in a service industry, if you're in a retail industry, or you're in construction, they have set up some of the initial out-of-the-box setups, so that you have something that looks kind of like your industry. So for me, I'm an accountant consulting. I do not need an Account called "Dental Equipment." It's flexible to fit your industry.

There are valuable security features including software access security (login password), data backup (getting all transactions and data from the previous bookkeeper), and an audit trail that is available when changes are questioned.

Valuable features include ease of use, compatibility with Windows, and the easily customizable platform.

In their journal entries, you cannot use Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable more than once. For example, I owe company "A" $100, so company "A" is Accounts Payable, and I just want to list it one by one by one. If I want to add more companies, say, company "B" with $200, I can't list Accounts Payable in that entry. I would have to just say, company "A", $100, company "B", $200, Accounts Payable, $300." That's a shortcoming of it.

We would like to have data conversion and upload applications included, without having to pay separately for them.

The customer response team is slow and sometimes causes the user to have a loss.