Q:

Hello

I am currently using QuickBooks Pro 99. My office manager thinks we should upgrade to 2005. Any real advantages?  Everything seems to work 

fine on this old version. We are a 2 million dollar graphic design firm. If you have time - any comments would be helpful

Regards

A:

I wholeheartedly agree that it's long past time for you to upgrade.

While you rarely see huge differences in each year's new version of QB compared with the previous year's, when you jump six years forward, you will see dozens of very useful improvements that will make the upgrade very worthwhile.

It is also the case that Intuit officially abandons all versions of QB that are more then three years old, as another incentive to motivate hold-outs like you to upgrade.  QB 99 was dropped by Intuit years ago.  QB 2002 is scheduled to be orphaned in April of 2005. 

Good luck.  I hope this helps. 

Kerry Kerstetter

Followup Q:

Thank you for your quick reply. You have made Laura, our office manager very happy.

Do you think we will have trouble pulling the data from 99 to 05 since - as you correctly pointed

out - our version is old and not support. I really appreciate your insight.

A:

You shouldn't have any problem rolling your data from the 99 program to any newer version, including the newest 2005.  I've done hundreds of such conversions, often skipping several years, and have never had any problems.

Good luck.

Kerry

- posted by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA @ 1/19/2005 04:06:00 PM Send this post: