Wiley QuickBooks 2008 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies 978-0-470-18471-4 Benutzerhandbuch

Chapter 1: Administering
QuickBooks

In This Chapter

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uickBooks does something that is 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 Quick-
Books 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.

You have two complementary methods for keeping your QuickBooks data
confidential. The first method for maintaining confidentiality relies on the
security features built into Microsoft Windows. The other method relies on
QuickBooks security features.

Using Windows security

You can use the security provided by Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft
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 security
to say who can and can’t use the QuickBooks program or access the Quick-
Books data file.

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