QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Review

We utilize QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise for our daily bookkeeping and financial reporting. This is where we enter in our daily transactions to track income as well as all of our accounts payable transactions. General Journal entries are quick and easy to input and allow for me to allocate every penny to the correct account. This is crucial for budgeting. The same can be said for accounts payable. Everything is well organized and easy to locate and analyze. With the click of a few buttons, I can find any expense with the corresponding invoice. We do not utilize QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise for invoicing due to the nature of our business. All invoicing is handled through our veterinary software. QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is where we go for all of our budgeting. Because everything is well organized and detailed, you can look at as big or as little of the picture as you want. We utilize the software to locate any areas of concern within the budget. The software can be difficult for new users without training as it is not extremely intuitive. There are numerous tutorials available, however, and once you learn how to navigate it, the software is incredibly easy to use.

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise has allowed us to track and manage any areas within the budget that were a concern. We are able to track income and spending as often as we want, enabling us to correct any problems before they seriously affect our profits. It has also made setting and tracking goals more feasible. Over the years, this has allowed us to better manage spending vs income and increase our profits annually.

I was trained by a former employee. I did not find QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise incredibly intuitive. I found that I was learning a lot as I went through trial and error. QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise was easy enough to use for the day to day within a couple of weeks, but to really have a full understanding of the entire software took several months to a year. Even now, there are many features that we do not utilize and I would require online tutorials to navigate them.

For our company, QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise has met our expectations. We did not experience any unexpected benefits. We needed a program to manage our book keeping and that is exactly what it did. We may not have experienced unexpected benefits, but QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise delivered on exactly what we needed from it.

Using QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise has allowed us to closely evaluate both where our money is coming from and going to. We are able to assess the business as a whole while also tracking individual categories. This allows us to ensure that we don't lose sight of any problem areas. We can track the overall health of the business, but make sure there are no weak links in certain areas. This has helped us formulate marketing strategies as well as targeted budget goals.

The remote access for our CPA is difficult on the desktop version. It required a remote desktop, which only allows one user at a time. A cloud based software such as QuickBooks Online is easier if you have remote workers either within your company or outside consultants such as a CPA.