This month, we are continuing to review some of the products you'll learn about when you attend our QuickBooks Consultant's Conference, November 9-11, 2005 in Las Vegas, NV.

I'm impressed with the quality of the QuickBooks add-ons we're reviewing. These developers are really thinking about the problems clients face and are developing solutions that integrate well with QuickBooks. In addition, these solutions create a new market for accountants and consultants to specialize in new areas. A main focus of the conference is to bring together QuickBooks Consultants and QuickBooks Software Developers to build a community that benefits everyone, especially the client.

In July we released the 2005 "Learning QuickBooks Step-by-Step" Basic Teaching System.

Here is what is NEW in the 2005 Basic Teaching System (Compared to the 2004 Version):

Our Basic System now includes two 400+ page workbooks: “QuickBooks Fundamentals-Version 2005” and “Intermediate QuickBooks-Version 2005”

New workbook cover design! NEW workbook pricing! Each book is designed to facilitate half-day, full-day, or a two-day seminar.

Comprehensive questions and practice problems at the end of each chapter.

NEW - PowerPoint Presentations with companion “Instructor’s Teaching Notes” have been provided “chapter by chapter” to facilitate the customization of your course offerings.

NEW- Instructor's Manual including Teaching Tips and Solutions to all of the Chapter Review exercises. Teacher Data files that contain solutions for both chapter and end-of-chapter problems.

Expanded Seminar Agendas and Instruction Timings include student agendas as well as suggested agenda topics for half-day and full-day seminars.

The product components have been reorganized to make locating resources on the companion CD ROM easy to find and use.

NEW lower price! You can purchase the Basic Teaching System for a special introduction price of $595 through the end of August. The regular price will increase to $695 on September 1st.

Be sure to visit our web site to view the entire product components!

Fishbowl Inventory is an inventory management solution that targets small to mid-sized companies needing a more robust feature set than what QuickBooks alone offers. Fishbowl stops many QuickBooks users from migrating to another accounting package when they reach the inventory or customer limitations of QuickBooks. When used with QuickBooks, Fishbowl takes over complete control of the inventory system including sales orders, purchase orders, and sales transactions while QuickBooks continues to do what it does best - handling the accounting behind the scenes.

Do you need QuickBooks help? Sleeter Group Certified QuickBooks Consultant's Network is the answer! Sleeter Group Consultants have been Sleeter Group trained and tested on QuickBooks. The exam they are required to pass is more rigourous than any other certification process for QuickBooks consultants. Visit our "Find a Consultant" web page and locate a consultant in your area (simply enter your zip code or telephone area code). If there is not a consultant in your area, many of our consultants work remotely. Just contact us and we will assist you in finding someone. Call us toll free at 888-484-5484.

pc/MRP is a fully integrated MRP/Inventory/Accounting program that can use QuickBooks as its accounting module. pc/MRP comes complete with 10 integrated modules, Inventory, Bills of Materials, Stock Room, Purchasing, Receiving, Work Orders, Sales, Invoice, Customer and Vendor Addresses.

pc/MRP allows companies using QuickBooks to implement an MRP system while continuing to use QuickBooks as their accounting module. Companies can manage multi-level BOMs (up to 100 levels deep) and their associated costs (pc/MRP supports Standard Cost and Average Cost). pc/MRP’s MRP Module allows companies to generate MRP Reports (Buy, Push/Pull, Visual Timeline). pc/MRP’s Stockroom Module allows companies to issue parts and sub-assemblies to sales/work orders and later receive them back as completed assemblies.

July 31st is the last chance to enter the "Free Accommodations Contest". Simply register for the conference by 7/31/05 and be automatically entered to win. The prize is three nights accommodations at the beautiful Tuscany Suites Casino Hotel during the conference. Also, register now and save $100 with the Early Bird discount (offer expires 9/9/05).

We are excited to announce that the "Conference Tracks" are live now on the conference website. This year there will be four tracks: Industry Solutions; Tools and Technologies; Business Development; and the Intuit Academy.

DataMover allows users to import data from a variety of financial documents, directly into QuickBooks.

Support for 27 different QuickBooks record types is supported. DataMover also allows users to preview and edit their data before they finalize their mapping and import data into their QuickBooks file.

"QuickBooks for Not-for-Profit Organizations, version 2004-2005" is now on sale! This 470 page book provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to use QuickBooks in a Not-for-Profit environment. Published by The Sleeter Group and written by Christine L. Manor, CPA, the Not-for-Profit book will help your organization use QuickBooks properly and provide management with the data needed to make informed decisions. The book includes methods for setting up and using QuickBooks in a Not-for-Profit organization, addressing the needs of management, boards of directors, grantors, and the IRS Form 990. From how to handle grants and contracts, to managing proposals, tracking funding sources, recording in-kind transactions, bank reconciliations, allocations, budgets, and restricted funds, this book has everything you need to get up and running with QuickBooks. Also included is an expanded section on Reports & Graphs.

Place your order by 8/31/04 and pay only $49. After this date, regular price for the Not-for-Profit book will be $59.