QuickBooks 2011/12 New Features

Presented by

Alex Wild

Overview

• Development Process & Mentality behind QuickBooks 2011/12

• Enhancements for 2011/12• New Features• Industry Specific Editions• Questions

Mentality Driving QuickBooks 2011/12 Development

• Focus on quality rather than throwing in the kitchen sink.

• Design and develop features over 90% of users would use

• Listen to the AC network

Development process going forward

• August – New features will be proposed to the AC council. • Review AC Council feedback and come up with a plan for

QuickBooks 12/13 features. • October – revised features presented to the AC council• November – lock down final features for 2012/13• November/December – Beta 1 available Online and Offline

for AC council• January/February – Beta 2 available Online and offline for AC

council & AC channel• Final Sign off (no further changes) -

Enhancements for 11/12• Amounts include Tax Option is now remembered for

memorised transactions• Warning message when tax amount is entered into a

journal without a tax item.• Part payments on Customs Bills now pull the GST paid

portion to the GST 101 Box 13.• Importing a bank statement will no longer open an old

version when multiple copies of QuickBooks are installed on the PC.

New Features

• APS Chart of Accounts• Official Office 2010 Support• Enhanced Search – Customers &

Suppliers• Company Snapshot enhancements

APS Chart of Accounts• Will allow users to integrate with future

Reckon Software a lot easier• No mapping required for integration in the

future• Accountant built chart of accounts even if

they have purchased from retail• Makes your life easier

Official Office 2010 Support

• QuickBooks 11/12 is the first version of QuickBooks to be officially supported

• Supports both 64bit and 32 bit versions of Office

• Integration will now be supported by the tech support team.

Enhanced Search• Implemented based on user feedback• New wildcard style search for Customer and

Supplier centre• Searches every field on the customer and

supplier centre – even custom fields!• Allows you to use typical wildcard items such as

% for ‘like’• Can even search on half words or half phone

numbers.

Enhanced Company Snapshot• The snapshot can now be customised• A new payments snapshot has been

added• Continues the two click mantra that Qbi

has had since launch in 2008/09• Zoom in on any amount to see where its

coming from

Enhanced Company Snapshot cont…

• Security is maintained when the snapshot is turned on

• Manager Style snapshot to see how the business is performing.

• See where your money comes from and goes easily and quickly

• Simple to learn and launches other areas of QuickBooks

And there is one more…

Wait for it…

Bi-Monthly GST Reporting

Allows you to select your Bi-Monthly reporting period for GST

reports

Bi-Monthly GST Reporting

QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise have

these install options

Industry Specific Editions

• Contractor Edition• Manufacturing & Wholesale• Nonprofit• Professional Services• Retail• General Business

Industry Specific Editions

Questions?