Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008 has improved its integration with various online services. The software encrypts the copy and sends it to your accountant via a secure Intuit server. Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008 makes sharing data with your accountant easier with a wizard that guides you through the steps of creating an accountant's copy of your books. Many QuickBooks users hire a professional accountant to look at and adjust their books before preparing year-end financial statements. The QuickBooks Time Tracker (an extra-cost subscription service) enables you to use Microsoft Outlook to account for your time. Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008's new 'Time and Expense' invoice form puts your unbilled time and expenses on a single screen, to help you decide which customers to bill. Quicken and Peachtree users have long been able to convert and import financial data into QuickBooks with Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008, Microsoft Office Accounting users have that option, too. A link goes to the QuickBooks Community Forums, a bulletin-board system where users can view or post messages on tips, best practices, and questions. Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008's online help now displays context-sensitive topics.

If you get stuck, clicking on a guidance icon leads to an explanation of how a process fits into your accounting workflow. You can use Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008's interactive tutorials to learn more about key features, and rely on guidance mode as you work with the program. The new QuickBooks Coach and Tips give novice users two ways to learn: tutorials and guidance. A smarter setup process reduces the number of screens required from more than 100 in previous versions to about 30 in Intuit QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008, reducing new users' startup time.

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