Services provided by governmental or private organization to the community are known as utility and automating these services so that invoicing can be made with ease can be referred to as service billing. So utility billing for QuickBooks provides various options during billing, there can be an option for creation of invoices, raising local purchase order, receiving payment online and making payments to your suppliers.

Such systems can be very useful for companies such as electricity supplying companies, gas companies, sewage companies and commercial companies. These programs have doubled the efficiency of company performance since most of the transactions are done electronically.

QuickBooks aims at computerizing the organization activities and allows linking of different departments together. Human resource department can be linked with procurement department where the two divisions can share same information and can communicate effectively without using paper work.

The service aids at tracking the movement of goods and automatically updating the inventory. The system if applied in such companies as water or electricity suppliers will assist in making sure that water and energy is safely and efficiently delivered to their clients. The cost of monitoring the consumption levels is also relatively minimized.

Some of firms such as continental service solutions are well known to create tailor made programs for their customers according to the nature of their firm or business. Power industries, sewer companies, water and gas suppliers are the largest users of these such systems.

They use this system to reach more than five million people who use water invoicing, sewer invoicing and power billing utility. Billing for QuickBooks help in company management, location management, customer management and billing management.

Potential lenders and investors will largely depend on the financial information that are accurate, and this can be facilitated by the use of QuickBooks in a firm. Disorganized and inaccurate financial records will make it so difficult for companies to file their monthly tax returns which may cause the business to be in conflict with the government.

They also allow receiving customer payments, analyzing expenses and sales, arranging data to be used for tax purposes, generating income statements of an organization, automatically generating and updating balance sheet and updating customer base.

There are several benefits of using this system to an organization and include automatic calculations and organization of financial data, it eliminates or reduces mathematical mistakes and errors, it captures a lot of customers information such as their telephone numbers, their physical addresses and the amount owing.

This function assists accountants and other users of such a system to file their taxes with less effort and with ease. The system allows Microsoft excel to integrate with it, this enables importing of raw data from other files prepared in excel sheet to the system for analyses using QuickBooks.

It also facilitates easy searching of information from the system giving options to users to either display or sort information. Lastly the system provides multiple report styles to print or view.

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