Rating:  Summary: Don't waste your money! Review: 160 pages of "hard copy" help files.
Rating:  Summary: Don't waste your money Review: 170 pages of "hard copy" help pages!
Rating:  Summary: Great Tips Review: I got more out of the features in the software from this book than I ever would have figured out on my own, even with the help system files opened all the time. This writer understands the nuances of all the features and made them easy to use, but more important, made it possible to get more out of the features than seems possible when you first start using the software. I heard about this book at a seminar, when two accountants raved about it. They weren't exaggerating, this book made me feel much better about the extra money I spent for the Premier edition of the software, because I'm getting the best out of everything that came in the software.
Rating:  Summary: great advice for Premier users Review: I never review books, but when I see a bad review that isn't deserved, I felt I should answer it. This book is about the Premier Edition, if you need basic information the Premier Edition software has a copy of this author's excellent basic book right on the CD. A reviewer who says he found six chapters on one topic obviously can't count, and since this book is for accounting professionals, I feel sorry for his clients. I'm an accounting professional who bought the Premier Edition, and this book made it possible to get all the extra features running in no time. My clients love the new services I can provide. Most of the new features aren't explained very well in the software, and this book does a great job of telling you what each feature does, how to use it, and the best scenarios for using it.
Rating:  Summary: wonderful! Review: I purchased this book in the hope that it would cover the Accountant version of Quickbooks Premier. It did so to a very limited extent. I compared the table of contents to the features listed by Intuit and only about half were covered and one did not even have a full page covering it. I don't know if the author just chose not to cover them or if the comparison chart of the various features offered with each version on Intuit's web site are nothing more than pure embellishment. Also this book is very expesive (16 cents per page) for what little it does cover and not even Amazon gets a price break off the price that the author lists it for on her website In fairness I have not found any book that covers Quickbooks Premier Edition, Accountant completely. I have to agree with some of the previous reviews that the book does in fact have a "help page" look and in some respects is not much better. But I also have to agree that there is useful information in the book. Given what I know now I would not buy the book again. It does not do what the title of the book says. It does not completely cover the product. Save your money until there is a product that lives up to the name "Running Quickbooks 200X Premier Editons."
Rating:  Summary: Confused and disappointed Review: I purchased this book in the hope that it would cover the Accountant version of Quickbooks Premier. It did so to a very limited extent. I compared the table of contents to the features listed by Intuit and only about half were covered and one did not even have a full page covering it. I don't know if the author just chose not to cover them or if the comparison chart of the various features offered with each version on Intuit's web site are nothing more than pure embellishment. Also this book is very expesive (16 cents per page) for what little it does cover and not even Amazon gets a price break off the price that the author lists it for on her website In fairness I have not found any book that covers Quickbooks Premier Edition, Accountant completely. I have to agree with some of the previous reviews that the book does in fact have a "help page" look and in some respects is not much better. But I also have to agree that there is useful information in the book. Given what I know now I would not buy the book again. It does not do what the title of the book says. It does not completely cover the product. Save your money until there is a product that lives up to the name "Running Quickbooks 200X Premier Editons."
Rating:  Summary: great coverage and explanations Review: I use this book for training seminars for accountants because it's clearly written and offers great examples of when to use features, and when to use workarounds to get more out of features. The Premier Editions aren't actually all that different from regular editions of Quickbooks, but they do have more "extras" - things you have to pay for on a monthly basis. The author selected all the right extras to discuss, the ones that are most useful, and most used, and skipped over the others. This makes the book a perfect tool for getting up and running quickly and accurately.
Rating:  Summary: wonderful! Review: I was very annoyed after spending extra money for the Premier Edition of Quickbooks and finding no manual in the software box for the Premier features, so I had to buy a book. Now I'm grateful to the Quickbooks company for making me buy this book, because it's a wonderful guide to the Premier features. The writer explains features perfectly, not just explaining how to do things, but also explaining when to do them, when to do something different, and what happens behind the scenes (the accounting ramifications). This book made it possible to get full value out of the Premier Edition of Quickbooks.
Rating:  Summary: Wonderfully written instructions Review: Not only are there beautifully written instructions on how to use all the special features in Quickbooks Premier, the author also gives lots of useful information about when to use the features. The tricks and workarounds she provides makes every feature useful, even if your company does things differently than the Quickbooks program assumes. This book is worth ten times its price.
Rating:  Summary: Great Help! Review: Some of the sophisticated features in QuickBooks Premier for Accountants are terrific and useful, but it can be hard to figure out how to use them to best advantage. This book not only provided clear instructions on how to do everything in the software, the author explained why to do some things one way, and when to do those things another way. Every client of mine gets superb service now, because I really understand the features and how to use them to best advantage. The author is a genius, at least about QuickBooks. This book gave me enormous advantages over other accountants who support QuickBooks, but don't know all the secrets and tips I learned in this book.
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