I'm a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and I have two entrepreneur/HNW clients who currently use QuickBooks for their businesses and real estate holdings but also need brokerage account functionality so as to track their trading and holdings of listed securities.
Currently, they use Quicken for securities and other personal accounting but have found its functionality and usability to have suffered since Intuit spun off Quicken, besides wanting more robust enterprise-class capabilities that Quicken simply isn't up to. They also want a single software solution and are prepared to do a broader market evaluation and move off of both the QuickBooks and Quicken platforms to get it.
So, the question is whether and when QuickBooks will have brokerage account support.
It may be that the Quicken spin-off included a non-compete preventing Intuit from offering such functionality in QuickBooks or otherwise.
Regardless, we need an answer. The code existed in-house at some point, so no reason exists to think that it isn't technically possible.
