2015 Innovation Award Nominee: Intuit QuickBooks Online Accountant

The new QuickBooks Online Accountant (QBOA) has been completely reimagined to make it the most significant product offering ever for accounting professionals. QBOA is a global solution specifically designed to save accountants time, grow their practices and transform how they communicate with and deliver value to their clients.

Reinventing the way client information is managed and shared, QBOA helps accounting professionals collaborate with clients and gain insights like never before. More than 841,000 companies around the world subscribe to QuickBooks Online, and more than 230,000 accounting professionals currently use QBOA, making it the clear number-one cloud accounting solution for small businesses and accounting professionals.

The new product’s core capabilities focus on three areas: seamlessly exposing tools and insights to accounting professionals, allowing them to seamlessly work with all their employees and clients, and transforming how they grow their practice.

Seamlessly Exposes Tools and Insights to Accounting Professionals to Help Them Work Faster

• New Customizable Dashboard: highlights what needs attention via alerts, to-dos and recent activities. It provides one-click access to clients’ books and payroll to help accounting professionals take immediate action.

• New Bookkeeping and Payroll Detail Tabs: allows accounting professionals to see at-a-glance reconciliation information, transactions requiring attention, due dates and tax filings.

• New Accountant Toolbox: enables easy access to accountant-only tools such as batch reconciliation, re-classify transactions and Books-to-Tax from within any client’s books. Also enables one-click access to any client from anywhere within QuickBooks Online Accountant.

• Enhanced Free QuickBooks Online Plus w/Payroll: Free subscription of QuickBooks Online Plus, included with QuickBooks Online Accountant, now includes Payroll to help accounting professionals manage firm’s books and pay employees. Work Seamlessly With Employees and Clients

• New Client Document Center: powered by Box, the hub allows users to request and receive documents from clients directly inside QuickBooks Online Accountant. After an initial one time setup and account linkage with a free 10GB Box account, users can view all requests and documents by client and easily keep track of what is received or outstanding.

• New Employee Access Controls: designates firm roles and permissions that define the level of access (full, custom or restricted) an employee can have to clients’ books.

• New Management Reports: enables creation of customizable, professional-looking and firm-branded management reports that can be easily saved and shared with clients.

• Enhanced Books-to-Tax: enables QuickBooks Online accounts to be easily mapped to tax accounts. Users can then make tax-only adjustments inside QuickBooks Online Accountant and seamlessly push the bookkeeping data to Intuit Tax Online to generate a tax return. Transforms How Accounting Professionals Grow Their Practice

• New QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program Integrated into QuickBooks Online Accountant: allows QuickBooks ProAdvisors to access their membership details directly from within QuickBooks Online Accountant. ProAdvisors can track certifications, the number of clients they have, view available training materials and make changes to their Find-a-ProAdvisor listing.

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