140‐Day QuickBooks Trial Software
Installation Guide
This guide will help you install the 140‐day trial version of QuickBooks that is associated with your textbook. Depending on your textbook, the software may be available via digital download or DVD. This guide includes instructions for installing the software using both methods. Also included are instructions for toggling to the Pro edition of the software, which is necessary for some users. Be sure to check out the Common Questions section at the end of this guide.
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Installing QuickBooks – Digital Download
If your trial version of QuickBooks is provided via digital download, you will access the software from the Intuit website.
Before you get started, make sure you have your license number and product number handy.
15‐digit license number: ___ ___ ___ ___ – ___ ___ ___ ___ – ___ ___ ___ ___ – ___ ___ ___
6‐digit product number: (QuickBooks 2014) 602 – 834 (QuickBooks 2015) 503 – 154
1.Close all running programs, including antivirus programs.
Remember to restart your antivirus program(s) after the software installation is complete.
2.Open a web browser and navigate to http://quickbooks.com/download.
These instructions use Internet Explorer. Different web browsers may behave differently.
3.Click the QuickBooks Accountant link for your version of QuickBooks.
4.Choose the Run option in the download bar, and then choose Yes in the dialog box that appears.
Continue with the next step after the download completes.
5.Click Next in the wizard screen, and then click Next in the Intuit QuickBooks Installer window.
6.Click the checkbox to accept the terms of the license agreement; click Next.
Tip! If desired, use the Print link at the top‐right corner
of the window to print the License Agreement for your records.
7.Ensure that the Express (recommended) installation type is selected; click Next.
The Express installation will place QuickBooks in the default location on your computer.
8.Type your license number and product number in the provided boxes; click Next.
For QuickBooks 2014, use 602‐834.
For QuickBooks 2015, use 503‐153.
9.Click Install.
The installation can take time, so be patient!
10.Click Open QuickBooks in the screen that appears after the installation is complete.
11.If a notice regarding how QuickBooks uses your Internet connection appears, click OK.
The QuickBooks trial software is now installed on your computer.
12.Toggle to the Pro edition of the software, if necessary for your course.
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Installing QuickBooks – DVD
If your trial version of QuickBooks is provided via DVD, simply follow these steps.
Before you get started, make sure you have your license number and product number handy.
15‐digit license number: ___ ___ ___ ___ – ___ ___ ___ ___ – ___ ___ ___ ___ – ___ ___ ___
6‐digit product number: (QuickBooks 2014) 602 – 834 (QuickBooks 2015) 503 – 154
1.Properly install the installation disc into your computer.
2.Follow the step for your version of Windows:
Windows 7: Click Run setup.exe.
Windows 8.1: Tap the banner that appears at the top‐right corner of the screen and then click Run setup.exe.
3.Click Yes in the User Account Control window.
QuickBooks begins the installation, and the Intuit QuickBooks Installer window will soon display.
4.Click Next in the first screen that appears.
5.Click the checkbox to accept the terms of the license agreement; click Next.
Tip! If desired, use the Print link at the top‐right corner
of the window to print the License Agreement for your records.
6.Ensure that the Express (recommended) installation type is selected; click Next.
The Express installation will place QuickBooks in the default location on your computer.
7.Type your license number and product number in the provided boxes; click Next.
For QuickBooks 2014, use 602‐834.
For QuickBooks 2015, use 503‐153.
8.Click Install.
The installation can take time, so be patient!
9.Click Open QuickBooks in the screen that appears after the installation is complete.
10.If a notice regarding how QuickBooks uses your Internet connection appears, click OK.
The QuickBooks trial software is now installed on your computer.
11.Toggle to the Pro edition of the software, if necessary for your course.
oggle to the Pro Edition
Your trial software of QuickBooks is the Premier Accountant edition. If you are enrolled in a full QuickBooks course using a QuickBooks Pro textbook from Labyrinth Learning, you must align your software version with the textbook.
Note! If you are enrolled in a payroll course using Labyrinth’s Payroll Accounting textbook, you are not required to toggle to the Pro edition.
Before you begin, complete the first Develop Your Skills exercise in your QuickBooks Pro textbook.
1.In QuickBooks, choose File > Toggle to Another Edition.
2.Click in the circle to the left of QuickBooks Pro and then click Next.
3.Click Toggle, and then click OK in the Close Accountant Center window.
QuickBooks will close and then reopen in the Pro edition. The title bar will show that you are using the Pro edition “via” the Accountant edition.
That night, the generator hummed. Mzee Kimani printed the first hundred pages on his dot-matrix printer, the sound like heavy rain. He left the PDF open.
She looked at the memory stick. The PDF was gone. In its place, a single line of text: “Ndũkane kĩrĩra gĩkwe” — “Do not lose a people’s storehouse.”
Next, she tumbled into a 1950s Manyatta (homestead) during the Mau Mau uprising. A woman named Wairimũ was hiding a scrap of paper—a handwritten list of Kikuyu words the colonial officer had banned. “Mũgambo” (voice, but also authority). The dictionary’s page for “Wĩyathi” (freedom) burned hot in Wanjiku’s palm. She understood: to lose the word was to lose the warren of meaning behind it. kikuyu dictionary pdf
Her mother replied with a shocked voice note: “Wanjiku, who taught you that?”
In the cramped back room of a second-hand bookshop in Nakuru, old Mzee Kimani ran his finger along a shelf of forgotten electronics. Under a dusty scanner, he found it: a faded memory stick, its red casing cracked like dry earth. He plugged it into his ancient laptop. One file. A PDF. “Kikuyu-English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged.” That night, the generator hummed
She landed on a red-earthed path in 1929. A Kibata (veteran of World War I) named Gakaara was teaching his son to read using a missionary’s primer. The dictionary floated beside her, now a compass. An entry for “Gĩcandĩ” (promise) glowed. She watched the old man carve a staff, singing a nyanĩrĩ (dirge) about a mountain that had no name in English.
Then the dictionary spoke. Not in a voice, but in a feeling. A low hum of thingira —the council of elders. Each entry was a doorway. “Thaai” —the word for peace, reverence, and the pause before a sacred oath—pulled her in. She looked at the memory stick
Mzee Kimani smiled, a gap-toothed grin that remembered the hills of Nyeri. His granddaughter, Wanjiku, a university student in Nairobi who preferred Snapchat to proverbs, was visiting for the holidays. She saw language as a relic—useful for “Ni kwega?” (“How are you?”) and little else.
Wanjiku gasped awake at dawn. The laptop was off. The printed pages lay cold. But her phone was different. Her autocorrect now offered Kikuyu first. Her messaging app had a new folder: “Thimo” (proverbs). She typed to her mother: “Ũhoro ti ũhoro, nĩ kĩrĩra kĩa ũhoro” — “A word is not just a word, but the guardian of its meaning.”
Wanjiku woke at 2 AM to a strange glow. The laptop screen was alive, but not with Windows. The PDF had… expanded. Words were rearranging themselves. “Rĩũa” (sun) pulsed orange. “Mbura” (rain) dripped from the letter ‘M’. “Mũkũyũ” (the sycamore fig tree) grew digital roots across the screen, their tips spelling out forgotten genealogies.
“Shosho, who needs a dictionary on a stick? There’s Google Translate,” she said, not looking up from her phone.