I've used the upper level tier (they keep changing the name -- I think
it's Professional, or Personal & Business today) of Quicken for
consulting and small business stuff. Works fine and it's more
intuitive and better integrated with the regular money management
tools. And the accountants can easil
Rick,
My husband and I use QuickBooks Smart Start - it's made much more for
the small business owner and it doesn't have all the unnecessary bells
and whistles for a small business that more advanced versions (like Pro)
has. There's also a great "dummies book" for SmartStart. We have it and
betwee
Rick,
> I am getting ready to incorporate my business and my accountant
> recommended
> QuickBooks Pro 2008. I was getting ready to buy it, but I am a little
> spooked by the negative reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Does anyone here
> have any feedback on it?
I'm sure you can find negative revi
I write accounting software reviews for Accounting Technology
magazine this time every year. (This year's covered several
different versions of Peachtree, MS Office Accounting Professional,
QB Pro and QB Premier, MYOB, and Simply Accounting.) MS Office
Accounting Express is definitely free an
One other possibility to think about (it is not Intuit) ... Microsoft
has a freebie available that may fit the need: Microsoft Accounting
Express 2008.
Check out the info here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/accountingexpress/FX101729681033.aspx.
This is designed for small businesses.
Finally,
Rick Quatro wrote:
> I am getting ready to incorporate my business and my
> accountant recommended QuickBooks Pro 2008. I was getting
> ready to buy it, but I am a little spooked by the negative
> reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Does anyone here have any
> feedback on it?
I think accountant
My wife uses QB Pro in her (very) small business. It's probably a great
product for your accountant to use, but we find it fiendishly
non-intuitive. Once you manage to mess something up, like importing
external data into an account, it's almost impossible to un-mess it.
Clint
Clint Owen
Technic