Quickbooks is not an accounting program. It is close. I have been using this product since 1987 when it started as Quicken which used a check register for all your transactions; then it was expanded into QB.
The corporation Intuit made a financial killing on misleading the end-user they could buy a cheap accounting software, handle their accounting needs and terminate their accountants. They they did this with Turbo Tax.
Furthermore, they got in bed with the accounting community and CPAs, getting their acceptance at the same time trying to mislead the end-user. In the end, they scammed both the end-user because their books were a mess, and they took advantage of the accounting profession be using them to somehow establish QB as an accounting software program while causing the accountants to lose write-up work/revenue. The product design is crap. Don’t get me wrong it is powerful, but they dumbed it down for the end-user to cut the fees from the accountants.
Furthermore, you have these software designers that don’t know much about accounting and finance; in addition, any suggestions to make improvements are never done.
Most accounting software programs have utilities to help clean up accounts, delete transactions and do other work on a large population of transactions. Not QuickBooks.
I have a bookkeeper who enter a years worth of checking account activity for three checking accounts, and the only way to delete these transactions is to delete them one at a time which will take longer to delete them then it to add them.
I believe their are a few better products out there. And don’t bother contacting QB or Intuit, because it get people who either don’t know or have no authority to make improvements.
