QuickBooks Pro 2006 [OLD VERSION] | ![QuickBooks Pro 2006 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ME4G3YWML._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Intuit, Inc.
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $149.99
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Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 708
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 2006
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 296536
Model: 296536
UPC: 028287011823
EAN: 0028287011823
ASIN: B000B8P8VM
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Customer Center that puts all your important customer information in one simple screen. | | • | New Vendor Center that shows all your vendors and what you owe them in one simple screen. | | • | New Employee Center that shows all your employees and what you’re paying them in one simple screen. | | • | New simplified Home page helps you get to your key activities in two clicks. | | • | The leading choice of small businesses for fast and easy financial management. |
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Product Description
QuickBooks Pro 2006 lets you manage the finances of your entire business, on a single screen. Manage accounting tasks, payroll and routine paperwork quickly and accurately. Boost efficiency with direct access to key tasks and information -- all from a simple and convenient user interface that makes total financial management as easy as clicking a mouse. Built-in tutorials and onscreen help, with FREE QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration
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| Customer Reviews: Read 108 more reviews...
 QuickBooks is Finally User-Friendly November 12, 2005
J. Chabot (Houston, TX)
96 out of 108 found this review helpful
I have been using Quickbooks since 2000 for my business and I have been a QuickBooks trainer. In previous versions of Quickbooks there was just to many different ways to enter the same information and to many different areas you had to go to find all the information on one client. QuickBooks 2006 resolves these problems. You can now customize your home page to find everything you need and you can find all transactions for one client on one page. QuickBooks is now for the average business user. The way QuickBooks 2006 works is finally user-friendly and you don't need to be an accounting expert to use it.
 Stick with QB 2005 or Peachtree 2006 January 20, 2006
SBJ400 (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA)
79 out of 86 found this review helpful
I have to say I am utterly disappointed with Intuit and the latest version 2006.
I do small business networks. After having worked on 20 different companies all having problems with Quickbooks 2006, I can say with experience that this product has a long way to go.
WAY TOO BUGGY!!!
Networking it is a disaster, random crashes, issues with corrupted databases after upgrading and patching that made the databases unrecoverable.
I think the most offensive thing of all is that INTUIT does not fofer trial version of their software. If you could test drive this version before comitting your dollars to it, you would not purchase it!!! HEY, maybe that explains why Intuit does not offer a trial version.
PEACHTREE software offers trial versions in 3 flavors...on CD, downloadable from their website and even a realtime version that requires no downloading or installation. Peachtree/Sage software is not afraid to let you see exactly what their product can do.
Intuit dropped the ball this time. Their support is expensive as well. I also found their help desk to know less than I did!!!
If you have the 2005 version...STICK WITH IT> DO NOT UPGRADE!!!
If you have 2004 or less, just buy a copy of 2005. It is rich in features and discounted heavily since it is an older version. YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID!
Not a real accounting program. July 14, 2006
Charles Warman (Wichita Falls, TX)
67 out of 73 found this review helpful
I'm a sole practitioner CPA and maintain about 20 separate sets of clients' books in my office. Since both Intuit and Sage (Peachtree By Sage Complete Accounting 2007) have "professional advisors programs" which aggressively solicit CPAs to shill for their software, I should also state that I'm in no way affiliated with either of them, nor any other software company (the fact that it's necessary for me to mention this demonstrates where the accounting profession is headed, but that's another story).
I realize that I'm swimming upstream here, but I truly despise QuickBooks. My clients who use it routinely bring me sets of books which they have messed up so badly that I generate hefty fees by unraveling their errors. The reason, I believe, is that QuickBooks is not a legitimate double-entry self-balancing accounting package. I strongly suspect that it's merely a dressed-up, aggressively marketed version of Intuit's checkbook program, Quicken. Because of this, it's far too easy to make serious errors which the software itself will not detect. A few examples:
A single click will convert your books from cash basis to a sort of quasi-accrual basis. A client once brought me his books which had a cash-basis balance sheet, an accrual-basis P&L, journals and ledgers which were some of both - and he had no idea why nothing balanced (and if you don't know what I'm talking about here, that's all the more reason to avoid this software).
Another issue is that no QuickBooks accounting period is ever really closed. This "feature" allows my clients, many of whom don't really know what they're doing, access to prior years' files, all the way back, in order to "fix things." Consequently I constantly must check to be sure that prior years' balances, for which tax returns have already been filed, haven't been altered. This lack of program control over prior years' data is an inexcusable security defect.
Out-of-balance conditions are often forced to an account called "Opening Balance Equity," an account which frequently has entries appearing from nowhere. It's simply a program-generated force-balanced "plug," which is unidentified and untraceable. Beware the OBE account!!
Both Intuit and Sage have terrible tech and customer support. Both companies gouge their customer bases unmercifully by means of expensive annual payroll updates and discontinuance of support for older versions of their software. Nevertheless, I do my best to steer my clients toward Peachtree. It's by no means a perfect solution, but it's at least a "real" double-entry system, and therefore more idiot-proof, more powerful, and generally bug-free. The learning curves of the two programs are now roughly equal, since Peachtree has added an optional interface for non-accountants.
Finally, I'm not bashing the company, just this product. I've been using Intuit's professional tax return preparation software (ProSeries) for many years, and I'm entirely happy with it. But my bottom-line professional opinion in this case is that QuickBooks is simply not what it claims to be. Use Peachtree (Peachtree By Sage Complete Accounting 2007), use MYOB, use the new Microsoft package - any of which are preferable to this over-hyped and under-powered dog of an accounting program. I keep a recent version of QuickBooks on my computer ONLY as an accommodation to my clients who refuse to switch.
I originally reviewed QuickBooks 2001. As far as I can see, six years have changed nothing significant regarding QuickBooks Pro. One can hope the new upscale versions are better; me, I'm not going there unless forced to by recalcitrant clients.
 Accurately And Easily Manage All Of Your Accounting Tasks, Payroll, Paperwork And MUCH MORE! November 26, 2005
Peter V. Cannice (Scottsdale, Arizona USA)
58 out of 67 found this review helpful
I've been a QuickBooks user for 4 years and I've just recently purchased and incorporated QuickBooks Pro 2006 into my accounting work. Of all the previous editions, there is no doubt that the QuickBooks Pro 2006 Financial Software for Small Business is the most user-friendly of all editions.
Within about 5 minutes I had transferred all of my accounting and payroll information from my previous edition to this one. It was as simple as you can possibly imagine and worked seamlessly and incredibly. I was most impressed with how easy it was to get through the setup process. It seemed like by the time I had loaded all the software, I was almost up and running and ready to start entering data.
There is plenty of details to read about QuickBooks Pro 2006. I wanted to give a personal review, and a very honest one, about how QuickBooks Pro 2006 performs in a small business setting. I've used several other accounting software packages before and nothing in the world even comes close to the power that is packed in this affordably priced financial software.
Feel free to email me if you have any particular questions as I would be more than happy to give you my input or to direct you in the best path. Thanks so much for reading my review. I hope you have as much luck as I did with incorporating QuickBooks Pro into your small business.
Warm Regards!
Peter Cannice
Scottsdale, Arizona
Horsepete@aol.com
 Flaws in the software and HORRIBLE customer service. November 23, 2005
G. Monsour (los angeles, ca)
49 out of 61 found this review helpful
I have been using Quickbooks for about 10 years. I have always found it to be a favorable, friendly little bookkeeping system, however, I do not understand why they won't track serial numbers, or why you can't type a simple "comment" on an invoice, unless you use those "canned messages" However, I do have a BIG issue with the Pro 2006 release. I used Basic for years, upgraded to Pro 2005 and never had any problems. I upgraded to Pro 2006 and none of my 6 printers (all different makes and models)would work.I kept getting error messages. I tried to use the (joke) 30 day free support system, but the website they give you doesn't work and if you call technical support plan on spending 1 hour + on hold and many more hours trying to explain in English to the techs in India. Even if they understand me...I certainly cannot understand them. I have had my program for 2 weeks and have not once been able to get help. The tech in India told me to "junk" my printers .. that they were not compatible with QBPro2006 or WindowsXP (which I also just bought). Checked with Epson and HP and they both said QB was NUTS. There is a flaw in the QB software that disrupts the printing, QB even has a name for it "PORT BLASTING". I am going back to PRO2005 where ALL my printers still work fine. QB has some nice programs, but has the worst customer service I have ever experienced.
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