The Quickbooks SDK has an excellent online reference manual for how to write custom programs to manipulate quickbooks. The manual links to a blog post demonstrating how to control quickbooks from Java. Below I post a Perl transliteration of the java code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Data::Dumper;
use IO::File;
use XML::LibXML;
use XML::LibXSLT;
use Win32::OLE::Const;
Win32::OLE->Option(Warn => 2);
use strict;

my $appname='Test App';
my $qbfile='';

main();

sub main {
  my $const = Win32::OLE::Const->Load("QBXMLRP2 1.0 Type Library");
  my $session = Win32::OLE->new("QBFC10.QBSessionManager",  sub {$_[0]
+->CloseConnection();}) or die "oops\n";
  $session->OpenConnection2("", $appname, $const->{"localQBD"});

  my $ticket = $session->BeginSession($qbfile, $const->{"qbFileOpenDoN
+otCare"});
  my $msgSet = $session->CreateMsgSetRequest('US',3,0);
  $msgSet->AppendVendorQueryRq;
  my $resSet = $session->DoRequests($msgSet);
  my $resList = $resSet->ResponseList;
  my $count = $resList->Count;
  for (my $i=0; $i < $count; ++$i) { 
    warn $i;
    my $res = $resList->GetAt($i);
    my $vendList = $res->Detail;
    warn Dumper($vendList);
    my $vcount = $vendList->Count;
    for (my $j=0; $j < $vcount; ++$j) {
      my $vend = $vendList->GetAt($j);
      my $dname = $vend->Name;
      my $name = $dname->GetValue;
      warn "Vendor name: $name";
    }
  }
  $session->EndSession;
  $session->CloseConnection;
  warn "Goodbye World!";

}

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In reply to Control Windows Quickbooks with Win32::OLE by metaperl

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