One Minute Test For Your QuickBooks Advisor

Here is a one minute test for your QuickBooks advisor, bookkeeper or computer person.  You have to be rather smart to run a business, use QuickBooks and write effectively. However, anyone can be smart enough to give this one minute test for your QuickBooks advisor or computer person. Unless you test them they can destroy your business, or help you destroy it. However, you can give this one minute test for your QuickBooks Advisor without even making a phone call.

 

My web QuickBooks Errors pages are more than 10 years old. You may be able to use them to open the QuickBooks program, without initially opening a QuickBooks data file, if you have a problem. However, if you cannot do this, only QuickBooks data recovery can usually help.They charge $250 to $750 and often delay you a long time. This is very important because your small business computer system is guaranteed.

I GUARANTEE YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM WILL FAIL,

OFTEN AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME,

DESTROYING ALL DATA NOT BACKED UP.

 

Failures relate primarily to electrical surges and computer hardware failures, some of which are due to excessive heat. You also can have conflicts between endless combinations of hundreds of thousands of different equipment items, programs, viruses, spyware, plus user error. Very few crashes are due to QuickBooks program errors. QuickBooks is one of the most extensively pre-release tested programs (I did my part) and hundreds of thousands of users have now been using it for around 9 months. Intuit also often fixes as many as 80 or so bugs in each free release, with up to 12 or so releases a year. Backup! Backup! Backup!

QuickBooks made scheduled backups all but automatic years ago. If you have not been backing up this way then then you may have an incompetent QuickBooks advisor. There are 50,000 ProAdvisors, so do not accept an incometent one. This is so easy I do not even need to tell you how to do it, except that you should backup to a different drive than you use for data if possible (an extra drive is cheap). Intuit does tels you about its non-guarantee in its Software License Agreement. They  encourage you to read it and require you to consent to it during the QuickBooks install. It is better than most, in reasonably clear language. However, like agreements from Microsoft and other software and equipment  vendors, it effectively makes you agree that the program (or equipment) may not do what you expect or may not do nothing useful at all. You also expressly agree the Intuit is not liable if it destroys data. You only have 60 days to get your money back and you cannot sue. It even clearly outlines Sunset policies, which will make payroll, online banking and other functions stop working after 3+ years. So look up Software License Agreement if you do not know this. Backup! Backup! Backup!

Do you know how your can give this one minute test for your QuickBooks advisor, bookkeeper or computer person, without calling them?

A large number of businesses that lose all their data never reopen. QuickBooks advisors also should review active QuickBooks files quarterly or more often. They should check QBwin.log files for errors and fix them. When errors remain they quickly multiply. Fortunately, you may fix many such errors by fixing the first. Backup! Backup! Backup!

Well, did you pass the hidden test?


What test?


Did you learn anything from this?
 

Well, if you learned anything at all from it then your QuickBooks advisor, bookkeeper or computer person failed this one minute test. They should have told you everything here. If they did not, they could have destroyed your business or helped you destroy it.

Please be smart and use the fastest and easiest way to save your business. Backup! Backup! Backup! Then decide whether, if your QuickBooks advisors did not pass this simple test you should trust them for anything else. Backup! Backup! Backup!

                  Mike Block, QuickBooks CPA
http://blocktax.com http://quickbooks-add-ons.com/