Is It Time To Upgrade Your QuickBooks File?

Four Ways To Upgrade QuickBooks

1. Do-It-Yourself And Hope For The Best

2. Let Your Bookkeeper Try It

3. Hire Someone With Skills In Your Industry

4. Hire Someone Without Skills In Your Industry

Things To Consider:

1. Have a recovery plan in place in case the entire QuickBooks crashes on the upgrade

2. Make three separate QuickBooks backups and store them somewhere other than where QuickBooks is located

3. Verify QuickBooks Data Integrity

4. Print an expanded Profit and Loss Report Year to date

5. Print an expanded Profit and Loss Report Year to date

6. Print an expanded Balance Sheet Report Year to date

7. Perform three routine maintenance rebuilds

8. Reprint an expanded Profit and Loss Report Year to date and compare to the first one

9. Reprint an expanded Profit and Loss Report Year to date and compare to the first one

10. Reprint an expanded Balance Sheet Report Year to date and compare to the first one

11. If any numbers are different, STOP and contact us immediately! 206-361-3950 sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com

12. If you are upgrading from before 2006 the entire database will need to be converted from the old IIF to the current SQL version which is a chore for those of us who are skilled

13. If you are upgrading and skipping years, 2008 to 2012 we recommend upgrading one year at a time and performing a thorough maintenance each time

14. When you are finished print the reports show in steps 4,5 and 6 again and compare them with the original reports

15. If any numbers are different, STOP and contact us immediately! 206-361-3950 sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com

After Something Has Gone Wrong - This is what we hear:

1. "Help! My entire business is on QuickBooks and I have no way of knowing who owes me money!" - Click Here To Read An Interesting Story

2. "It looked so simple"

3. "We have upgraded many times before with no problems"

4. "We did not back up QuickBooks"

5. "We were in a hurry"

6. "The Bookkeeper said they knew what they were doing!"

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