No company is open
A company file provides the financial data you work with. You cannot work in QuickBooks without one.
When no company file is open, you can do one of the following:
- To create a new QuickBooks company file, click Create Company.
- To open a file listed in the window (including your recently opened files, and the product and service-based sample files), select the file you want and then click Open Selected Company.
- To open a file not listed in the window, click Open Company, choose the file you want, and then click Open.