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Chapter 1: Administering
QuickBooks
QuickBooks
In This Chapter
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Keeping your data confidential
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Using QuickBooks in a multi-user environment
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Closing QuickBooks
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Using QuickBooks for simultaneous multi-user access
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Maintaining good accounting controls
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uickBooks does something that’s critically important to the success
of your business: It collects and supplies financial information. For
of your business: It collects and supplies financial information. For
this reason, you want to have a firm understanding of how you can pro-
tect both the data that QuickBooks collects and stores and the assets that
QuickBooks tracks. This chapter describes all this.
tect 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 informa-
tion is private, your first concern in administering a QuickBooks accounting
system is to keep your data confidential.
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 informa-
tion 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 data
confidential. The first method for maintaining confidentiality relies on the
security features built in to Microsoft Windows. The other method relies on
QuickBooks security features.
confidential. The first method for maintaining confidentiality relies on the
security features built in to Microsoft Windows. The other method relies on
QuickBooks security features.
Using Windows security
You can use the security provided by Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista,
or Windows XP to restrict access to a file — either a program file or a data
file — to specific users. This means that you can use Windows-level secu-
rity to say who can and can’t use the QuickBooks program or access the
QuickBooks data file.
or Windows XP to restrict access to a file — either a program file or a data
file — to specific users. This means that you can use Windows-level secu-
rity to say who can and can’t use the QuickBooks program or access the
QuickBooks data file.
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