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