Accounting Talk

Bill · Guest

A friend's husband passed away suddenly, and I'm helping the widow
sort through her husband's books to figure out how to file tax
returns, etc. (OFF-TOPIC: Everyone, make sure your spouse/significant
other knows how to FIND and ACCESS all your Intuit-based records in
case you get hit by a bus! This process has been like putting together
a 3000 piece jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces are black.) The
husband's bookkeeper sent me a bunch of QuickBooks files laying out
the husband's business. I don't use QuickBooks myself. I'd like to
avoid buying a copy just so I can read these files. Is there anything
like the free Adobe reader for QuickBooks out there that someone can
point me to? If not, any solution short of buying a copy? Is it a
solve to ask the bookkeeper to save the Quickbooks file in some other
format (and if so, what format works)?

Thanks in advance. I can't even tell all of you how much this is a
question I wish I didn't have to ask.

Bill

Bill · Guest

Oops. I just found the group for QuickBooks, and posted a copy of
this there. I'll still take any responses here anyone wants to leave,
but my apologies for going to the wrong group.

Bill