85 percent of small businesses use QuickBooks. However, most QuickBooks users aren't accountants or experienced users and don't use it efficiently or to help them manage their business. QuickBooks isn't just an accounting tool, but it's also a management tool. QuickBooks can help you increase your profit and generate more cash.

The root of the problem isn't the QuickBooks user, but is Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks. Intuit wants users to believe that all you have to do is buy it, install it, and it will work all by itself. Unfortunately it doesn't. There's a bit more to it than that. Remember your mom telling you "You get out of life what you put into it." Well, the same principle applies to QuickBooks; you get out of QuickBooks what you put into it.

QuickBooks is one of the best investments a business owner can make; it's inexpensive, user friendly, and powerful. It can be a mild, mannered accounting tool if you just want to write checks and invoice customers, but put it in a phone booth and watch what it can do. For example:

• Email your invoices, statements and receipts
• Record a sale and receive and record the payment simultaneously
• Produce a written analysis of your business' financial health
• Prepare a business plan, budget, forecast, and cash flow projection
• Write letters to your customers, employees and vendors
• Ship and track packages through Federal Express or UPS

We may not know everything, but we do know QuickBooks. Whether you want the Clark Kent or Superman version, we can help you manage your business more effectively with QuickBooks.

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