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Intuit has made the Business Performance Center available in QuickBooks Online Accountant. Previously available only in QBO Advanced, the center enables users to manage key performance indicators, charts, and reports in a central place.
The center, which will soon replace the business performance dashboard, currently found within the overview tab, will be available through the report tab when users log into clients’ books.
Also both QBO Advanced and Accountant users can now access industry benchmarks on Net Profit Margin and Gross Profit Margin, which can also be added from the Quick Add menu. The new charts show company data and peer data for the past year.
Peer data is calculated based on industry, revenue range, and location, starting with the closest match and extending to at least 30 companies. Users can set or change industry and location from the Settings area on the Performance Center.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind