On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know a SOHO who generates $300,000 annually in profit, so again, it's all > a matter of perspective.
True enough. > You hadn't described budgetary requirements, except to say that Quickbooks > is "expensive." Good point. They don't really have a budget for this, except so say that they have very modest needs and want value. In other words, keep things as cheap as possible without sacrificing useful functionality. I think that's a smart approach. (It's a small manufacturing company which was rescued from financial collapse by the owner of my nominal employer. They have two or three full-time employees, plus a part-time office worker. The GM is also tasked from my employer. Guess where IT comes from. ;-) ) > However, accountants fees can quickly make the expense of > of QB incidental. Unless the cost of the accountant is somehow proportional to the cost of QuickBooks, I don't really see that as relevant. Paying a lot for QuickBooks just because something else costs more is not good business sense. Now, it may be that using QuickBooks would lower accountant fees, since QuickBooks is the most common package. That's a good point, and something that normally would be worth investigating. However, due to the ownership situation described above, my employer is also loaning our accounting staff. So accountant fees are zero. Unfortunately, we can't use the ERP software my employer runs for this other company, so I'm looking at other software. In any event, I've found that examining alternatives to "what everyone else does" often pays off. The smaller the business, the more nimble they can be, so this is an opportunity. If your stance is "Just use QuickBooks", well, that's valid, but here I'm interested in hearing about alternatives people have tried. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
