The Top Five Limitations of QuickBooks
For many small and mid-sized businesses, Intuit QuickBooks® was the first choice for financial software in an organization’s early days. QB offered basic functionality that almost any business could use to get off the ground.
Virtually every growing business soon realizes that QB has limitations. Here are the top five limitations that cause CFOs to look for an alternative.
1. Over-Reliance of Spreadsheets to Support Financial Processes and Reporting
Many organizations naturally and gradually develop sophisticated accounting requirements such as revenue recognition and multi-entity consolidation. If QB is the financial foundation, that often means cumbersome workarounds because it does not provide the built-in capabilities for complex processes.
- Are you exporting data to multiple spreadsheets?
- Are you creating additional journal entries each month?
- Have you created home-grown applications for recording revenue or expenses outside of QuickBooks?
These workarounds lead to entry errors, incorrect or outdated data, process inefficiencies, wasted time and resources, and a lack of control and compliance.
2. Excess Manual Data Entry and Re-Entry
“I currently spend many hours manually creating invoices in QB. There should be a better way.”
Most companies don’t integrate QB with other key business applications, opting instead to manually integrate the systems (think flat files, CSV dumps, and rekeying). That might suffice when volumes are small, but it’s a productivity killer as the business grows. Who has time to manually research, re-enter, and verify data already captured elsewhere? These manual integrations are invitations to errors and wasted time.
3. Limited Access to Reports and Information to Drive Decision-Making
“We constantly struggle to keep up with incoming requests for data to report financials in a timely manner.”
Real-time visibility into business metrics is essential for timely decisions that boost performance. QB offers canned reports – and no dashboards – so visibility is limited forcing you to make decisions based on outdated data. By leveraging a financial system that incorporates both a multi-dimensional general ledger and report writer, you can transform your analysis. Finance becomes a strategic partner who generates insights that answers the bigger questions facing management.
4. Difficulty in Adapting to New Business Requirements
“QuickBooks continues to crash, and I lose all our payroll data. I don’t have time to re-enter data for 350 hourly employees…”
Classic signs you’ve outgrown QB?
- Menus and screens that used to be quick and responsive now have lengthy delays.
- The system struggles to keep up with data volume and calculations intensity.
- Report-printing takes forever.
- Queries seem to dim the lights.
- Periodically shutting down QB to maintain data files.
In a worst-case scenario, these signs can have potentially disastrous results including system crashes and the loss of crucial data. That is no way to run a business!
5. Inadequate Controls Around Financial Processes
Manual processes are a fact of life with QB. Unfortunately, they increase the probability of data duplication and data entry errors, making it difficult to gain an integrated, real-time financial view of a company’s end-to-end operations.
QB simply wasn’t designed for growing organizations that need advanced functionality to manage sophisticated processes.
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