Intuit QuickBooks Pro 2009

A quick look: QuickBooks Pro 2009 is an accounting solution ideal for small businesses.

Intuit^® QuickBooks^® Pro 2009 remains a favorite among small businesses. The software offers basic purchasing and invoicing tools, as well as convenient payroll management and inventory tracking. Up to five users can access the software concurrently (additional licenses required), and the reporting tools help you track who your best customers are and where to focus your resources. QuickBooks is integrated with Microsoft Office^® programs (2000 and newer), letting you email sales proposals directly from QuickBooks and export data to Excel.

• Stay organized
  QuickBooks Pro 2009 offers separate areas to keep tabs on your employees, customers, and vendors. Generate sales documents and collect payment from your customers with merchant services, and manage payroll for your employees (fees may apply). In just a few clicks, you can create reports from a selection of over 100 customizable documents.
   
• Manage your business
  Replenish your inventory with reorder points, and account for incoming inventory with purchase orders. Build and maintain customer relationships with customer information records, and have all your accounting data ready to go at tax time. QuickBooks is even compatible with Intuit's TurboTax software, and the new 2009 version now handles multiple currencies for tracking international sales.
   
• Integrate with other programs
  QuickBooks is compatible with many newer Microsoft Office programs, letting you export your data and write letters using Word and Excel, and email directly from QB using Outlook. Because QuickBooks has been so popular for so long, there are a host of third-party solutions available to help you tailor the software to your needs.
   

• Hard Drive Space: 1.05 GB plus space for data files
• Operating System: Windows^® Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server (Database server on Linux is supported for Enterprise Solutions only [SUSE 10.2 and Fedora 6])
• Processor Speed: 2 GHz
• RAM: 256 MB (512 MB required for Vista and multiple, concurrent users on any OS)
• Graphics: 1024x768 screen resolution (recommended)
• Other: CD-ROM drive, 100 Mbps internet connection, Adobe^® Acrobat^® Reader 5.0
• File Server: Novell Netware server or Linux/Samba file servers can be used with advanced configuration
• Integration Requirements: Microsoft^® Word^®/Excel^®/Outlook^® 2000 or newer, QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook (free download)
• Compatible with: QuickBooks Customer Manager or Client Manager 2.0 or newer, QuickBooks Point of Sale 4.0