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Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons

This is no first-look article on Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009, especially if you may be outgrowing QuickBooks. It is by a CPA who, with his ProAdvisor staff, already spent more than four months heavily pre-release testing QuickBooks 2009 and using it in production. It also is #14 in our Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009 series. Other Outgrowing QuickBooks articles are here (complete summary soon):

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks: No Way http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/10/why-should-you-upgrade-to-quickbooks-2009-outgrowing-quickbooks-no-way-11.html

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/quickbooks-2009-upgrade-yes-outgrowing-quickbooks-no-shrink-files-13.html

Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/why-should-you-upgrade-to-quickbooks-2009-outgrowing-quickbooks-foreign-currency--------why-upgrade-to-quickbooks-2009some.html

The Business Resource Planning Farm League, QuickBooks add-ons, QuickBase
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/the-business-resource-planning-farm-league-quickbooks-addons-quickbase-.html

Should You QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/free-download-save-30000year-custom-quickbooks-add-ons-quickbooks-2009-upgrade.html

Intuit only adds significant new capabilities to QuickBooks once a year. However, it will fix and substantially extend online banking in December and soon after. Intuit also added three new Intuit Connected Services to the Intuit Enterprise Suite in October. It was developing the sales application in-house and using Corrigo's WorkTrack Service Management and AccuCode's Velocity Inventory for field service and warehouse management applications. This led to a September 11, 2008 ChannelWeb article, Intuit Sets Collision Course With Microsoft With On-Demand Apps. It quotes Mario Nowogrodzki, my co-organizer of the South Florida QuickBooks Meetup (the largest anywhere, and its free). The score in prior Intuit vs Microsoft collisions is 10 to nothing in favor of Intuit. QuickBooks recently had 94.2% of recent small business accounting program sales at retail. It also had 400 ProAdvisors advertise for New York, where Microsoft had 2. Finally, Intuit has 75,000 QuickBooks add-ons developers, many of whom are sure to rush QuickBooks Add-ons using the new QuickBooks 2009 capabilities.

Therefore, you should soon see an eleveth clear case of Intuit beating Microsoft.

Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Foreign currency processing will let the new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade quickly replace 20 or so older, slower, less reliable and less full-featured international QuickBooks versions. More Intuit international products will arrive soon. 500+ tested, mature, inexpensive, ProAdvisor-reviewed, user-rated QuickBooks Add-ons now work with this QuickBooks 2009 “foreign currency” version. Many did not work with the old county-specific QuickBooks foreign currency versions. This will make the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade outsell all prior versions of QuickBooks by a wide margin. 
Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency?  We now get far more international inquiries, including those we help get the Lowest QuickBooks Prices http://www.blocktax.com/lowest_QuickBooks_prices.htm. My top long-time staffer, a Spanish-speaking ProAdvisor, helps a lot. You can contact Yolanda Perez directly at yolandap@mindspring.com, or simply to mblock@blocktax.com for her. We also have long had international assistants in many countries. They help us work almost 24/7 on our in-house and collocated QuickBooks terminal server. This cuts our QuickBooks support, help and accounting costs, while we finish faster. Google ‘webcpa + secrets’ for a related Accounting Technology magazine cover article, by outstanding writer and editor, Alexandra DeFelice.

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Many international inquiries come from accountants, who want to represent Intuit and better support clients. We tell them they too can be QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisors, while actually saving money on QuickBooks software and Intuit support. This means that those who thought they might be outgrowing QuickBooks, due to foreign currency needs, will soon have armies of international QuickBooks ProAdvisors, like the 50,000 QuickBooks ProAdvisors we have here. Why consider a foreign currency accounting program that will not have international support?

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Scott Wilder got my Speed Up QuickBooks and QuickBooks Shortcuts articles in the QuickBooks Library and was very helpful with my original BlockTax QuickBooks Blog. However, he was most helpful to Spanish speakers. By organizing and nurturing key influential QuickBooks Comminity forum users with Spanish skills, he helped to satisfy important unmet needs among a growing number of users. "QuickBooks presently doesn't have a Spanish-language manual, but we were able to successfully organize these passionate contributors to address this need. Now some of our most passionate Spanish-language users are really dialing up their contributions, from contributing mini-manuals to 'how-to' podcasts in Spanish." We may expect mant more such efforts now ts QuickBooks supports foreign currency.

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Many Intuit friends have long been very sensitive to international needs and the related need for privacy. One of my oldest Intuit friends is an outstanding Intuit “black belt,” Rich Walker. He was liaison to Intuit Japan and my first QuickBooks Advisory Council. I once had concerns about Intuit privacy when he was in Japan and very sick. However, he quickly set up a very long conference call with me (Florida), him and the QuickBooks be Intuit privacy directors in northern and southern California. It fully resolved my concerns. That and what I have seen since meant I was was not surprised when TRUSTe intenet privacy authority recently said Intuit was one of the Top Three Most Trusted Companies for Privacy in 2007. Rich is now again helping ProAdvisors with the our international n domestic opportunities.

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency?  So let us hear from you if you have international concerns.