Chapter 1: Administering QuickBooks
In This Chapter
Keeping your data confidential
Using QuickBooks in a multi-user environment
Closing QuickBooks
Using QuickBooks for simultaneous multi-user access
Maintaining good accounting controls
QuickBooks does something that’s critically important to the success of your business: It collects and supplies financial information. For this reason, you want to have a firm understanding of how you can protect both the data that QuickBooks collects and stores and the assets that QuickBooks tracks. This chapter describes all this.
Keeping Your Data Confidential
Accounting data is often confidential information. Your QuickBooks data shows how much money you have in the bank, what you owe creditors, and how much (or how little!) profit your firm produces. Because this information is private, your first concern in administering a QuickBooks accounting system is to keep your data confidential.
You have two complementary methods for keeping your QuickBooks ...
