QuickBooks Desktop 2021

Portable Company Files vs. Company Files

For the QuickBooks Desktop 2021 book, the student exercise files are available in two formats in following website https://www.labyrinthelab.com/lrc/ :

Portable company files (often simply called “Portable Files”)
Company files

Students may use either format.

For earlier editions of this text, only portable files were provided, as they are smaller and easier to download. (However, they may likely take several minutes to “restore” before you can work with them.) In comparison, company files are much larger than portable files.

File Comparison Examples
Filename	Portable Company File	Company File
DYS_Chapter01	596 KB	14,492 KB
RYS_Chapter04	5,214 KB	85,380 KB
AYS_Chapter07	1,101 KB	16,780 KB

With the advent of larger temporary storage devices and faster download times, both types of files are now provided. The content in the files is the same, which means you can use either file format. Please note the following:

Portable company files take less time to download than company files, but these files must be “restored” first, which does take time.
To work with portable company files, you must “restore” them. To work with company files, you can simply open them as you would other files.
The textbook assumes students are using the portable company files, and exercise instructions may direct students to “restore” a portable company file and possibly save it with a new name. Students using company files should disregard those instructions. To use the company files, simply right-click the file icon and then choose "Rename" from the pop-up menu to save the file with a new name.
To open a company file in QuickBooks, just double-click the file icon. (When working with portable company files, you must first open QuickBooks software and then "restore" the file from within the program).

IMPORTANT NOTE! The company file versions of the student files are too large to include in this instructor support download. To access the company file versions, please go to http://www.lablearning.com/QuickBooks-Pro-SSM/.

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