Only QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2014 or 2015 allow the client to create an Accountant's Copy that can be opened in QuickBooks Accountant 2015. If a client creates an Accountant's Copy using an older version of QuickBooks Pro or Premier, the accountant will not be able to open this file directly as an Accountant's Copy in QuickBooks Accountant Desktop 2015. How Do I Copy a Quicken Data File? Product Version. The copy contains all the accounts in the original file. Quicken 2019 for Mac imports data from Quicken.

By QuickBooks 2013 makes it easier for accountants to work with client data files. Your client creates the accountant’s copy of the QuickBooks data file by using his version of QuickBooks and the real data file and then either creates a file that the client sends to you (such as through the mail or via e-mail) or that Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, sends to you. Here’s what your client needs to do if the client will take care of sending the file to you: • Choose the File→Accountant’s Copy→Client Activities→Save File command. QuickBooks first displays a message asking the client whether he wants either • An accountant’s copy of the file • A portable or backup copy of the file You can also create an accountant’s copy by choosing File→Create Copy and then clicking the Accountant’s Copy button. A portable file is a real, live copy of the QuickBooks data file that’s been slightly scrunched in size so it’s easier to move around (such as by e-mailing the file as an attachment). A backup file is a backup, second copy of the QuickBooks file you create (usually) so you have a copy of the QuickBooks data file in case something bad happens to the original QuickBooks data file. • Select Accountant’s Copy.

Click Next to continue. • Specify a dividing date. When a client clicks the Next button to continue with the creation of an accountant’s copy, QuickBooks asks him for the dividing date. Transactions falling before this date can be edited only inside the accountant’s copy. Transactions falling after this data can be edited inside both the accountant’s copy and the client’s copy.

• Click Next to continue. Another message appears, telling the client that QuickBooks must close all the windows to create an accountant’s copy. QuickBooks may also tell the client to insert a disk. • Click OK and insert the disk (if necessary). QuickBooks displays the Save Accountant’s Copy dialog box. • Name the accountant’s copy. Hotkey for merge and center.

Use the File Name box of the Save Accountant’s Copy dialog box to name the accountant’s copy of the QuickBooks data file. If necessary, the client can also use the Save In drop-down list to specify where the accountant’s copy of the QuickBooks data file should be saved. The client needs to remember where the accountant’s copy of the file gets saved. This file is given to the accountant — via e-mail or snail-mail, or on a disc — so the accountant can use it. • Create the file. After the client names the accountant’s copy of the data file and indicates, if necessary, where the accountant’s copy should be saved, the client clicks Save.