If you are planning on having only 1 user, with 1 QuickBooks®   file, have QuickBooks® installed on one computer and only need access to analysis and reports

If more than one person in your company will be accessing QuickBooks® information for analysis and reports, and you manage only one QuickBooks® file.

If you manage several companies or branches, or for any other reason you have more than one QuickBooks® file, the Consolidation edition will give you easy and sustainable access to all information merged into one single database, for benchmarking, comparisons, and other analysis and reports. Multi-user feature is included.

If you are a CPA managing several QuickBooks® files for you customers, you have QuickBooks® installed on one computer, and need separate access to each of your customer’s QuickBooks® files, and are looking to add value to your customers by providing for them custom and graphical reports.