Business Analysis with QuickBooks

You have the data.

Now make it work for you

If you're using QuickBooks to manage your business finances, you have volumes of valuable data available. Are you using it to make better business decisions?

QuickBooks reports are fine—as far as they go. But what if QuickBooks data could help you decide whether to continue or discontinue a line of business . . . whether a product line or business segment is performing up to expectations . . . whether projected cash flow is sustainable . . . whether the sources and uses of working capital are appropriate for your business goals?

It can—and here's how.

Learn to:

• Set filters to gather only records that are relevant to what you want to know

• Export reports to Excel without the outmoded functions, unnecessary cell formats, and referencing traps that can make them useless

• Move data directly into and out of the QuickBooks company file using the Intuit-supplied SDK

• Export reports to text files for use in Word, Excel, and XML processing engines

• Chart financials using Excel tools that are not available in QuickBooks

• Learn how QuickBooks' average costing method affects your profitability