Intuit Live Seminar Tour In Boston

I’m attending 3 live seminars from Intuit tomorrow.  The nice part is that they are free and I usually pick up one or two good pieces of information that make it worth the drive into Boston.  The bad part is that they don’t provide lunch and parking at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport really sucks!  This is the third year in a row in that location and for the past two years many of the attendees have complained but I guess nothing has changed.  The first year it took me 1/2 hour to park and 45 minutes at the end of the day to pay for parking to get out.  Last year was a little better but it there was still about a 20 minute wait to pay for parking.  If anyone at Intuit reads this, please change the location next year!!!

Here’s a quick overview of the seminars that are being presented tomorrow:

2010 What’s New for Accounting Professionals from Intuit Proline
Intuit QuickBooks Premier Accountant 2010 from Intuit ProLine helps accounting professionals save time, save money and grow your practice! QuickBooks 2010 is designed to make you and your client’s work easier, faster and more accurate. Your suggestions inspired new features and big improvements. Discover in this course how QuickBooks 2010 can help you work more efficiently with your clients data and enable them to get more from QuickBooks.
Innovation for Accounting Professionals
Technology is constantly moving at a lightening pace.  Innovation for Accounting Professionals is designed to give you the latest information on changes in technology and how these trends can impact both small businesses and accounting professionals.  You will also get to see the latest and exciting offerings from Intuit designed to help you be more productive in this fast-paced environment.
2009 Lacerte Annual Update Seminar (Lacerte is the tax preparation software that my firm uses and is owned by Intuit)
Lacerte program features and functionality changes that are focused on making Lacerte run faster and you more productive. We also update you on the basics like changes to tax law and e-filing.  Find out why Lacerte is now part of the new Intuit ProLine, designed to help you improve your productivity and achieve your goals for growth.

I’ll let you all know what nuggets of wisdom I pick up tomorrow.  If you’re in the Boston area and want to attend you might still be able to register at the Intuit site here.

This post was written by Michael Debyah.

QuickBooks 2010 Preview

QuickBooks 2010I just received an email from Intuit announcing the release of the QuickBooks 2010 website.  The site highlights some of the new features that will be available in this updated version.  QuickBooks 2010 will go on sale September 28.

The main new features look to be the following:

An updated Client Data Review with 4 new tools to help clean up client data (this is a feature in the Premiere Accountant Edition only)

    Document management allows you to electronically “paperclip” documents to QuickBooks transactions.  Not sure exactly how this will work since they don’t give all the details of it, but this could be a fantastic new feature!

    The ability to add/edit multiple list entries.  You will be able to copy and paste from Microsoft Excel directly into some QuickBooks lists.

    Create financial statements (with Premiere Accountant Edition) with the new improved Intuit Statement Writer 2010.

    There are several other improvements listed on the site and these new features vary by product (some new features are only available in Premiere, while other may be in Pro or only Enterprise, etc.)  It will be a while before I have any detailed info on these new features, but as soon as I do I will pass the info on to you here.  Also, as soon as I get my ProAdvisor copy of the software I will put together a video walkthrough highlighting some of the new features.

    This post was written by Michael Debyah.