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Posted by Chips on August 20, 2006, 1:58 pm
Please log in for more thread options Quickbooks is not a "graphics" program, its a database. Everytime you pull
something up, its using it's database guts to do that.
If its just your one company using it, and just one person doing your books,
I wouldn't worry about it.
If you are the owner of the company, you purchased the program. You hire
somebody to do your books. This is how I would suppose 90% of the users of
Quickbooks are. An owner (or director) should have every right to peek into
Quickbooks to see what's up. Whether for information or to check on the
quality of the bookkeeping.
Just be careful not to screw things up for your bookkeeper when you look at
things. It sounds like you know your way around enough to not do that.
I would say to just call Intuit and ask, but don't take the person's answer
as the final word.
I called Quickbooks once as I was first getting ready to purchase it to find
out what their policies were regarding installing on different machines, as
I was going to be doing that. One at work, a desktop at home, and my laptop.
The person I talked to did not seem to understand their license agreement.
The lady was telling me I automatically needed a new license for every
computer I installed it on, even though I was the only user.
In contrast, when I called Autodesk about the same thing for Autocad, the
lady was very helpful, and explained exactly what their policy was.
GC
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>> Nope, don't think so. But you could probably setup a user with read only
>> status.
>
> Thanks. I'm the director of a nonprofit organization, but I'm not the
> person who uses the software and enters information in QuickBooks -- only
> one person in our organization does that. Since only one person really
> uses QB, we have one user license.
>
> All I really want to be able to do is be able to read our company file
> from time to time to either look up some piece of information (a vendor
> address, an employee start date, etc.) or view and compare financial
> statements such as balance sheets, P&L, etc. The way I do this now is to
> just install copies of the QB software on my work computer (our computers
> are not networked so far) and my home computer and use those copies to
> look at a copy of the company file I don't enter or change any of the
> information. Since I am not the same person who regularly uses the QB
> software, I assume Intuit could say that we should have a second user
> license for me to look at our company file, but I think that would be
> silly.
>
> But that started me wondering if there wasn't a QB file viewer program out
> there.
>
>
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