> My wife's business was using Quickbooks as book-keeping software. > Quickbooks was lacking certain features that existed in another program, > MYOB. Since I was frustrated, in particular, with how Quickbooks handled > inventory transfers -- and I did all the book-keeping -- I decided to > switch. When we made the transition, we were current with out book-keeping. > It is now more than two years later, and we are far from catching up. > Supposedly there were tools to transfer Quickbooks information into MYOB. > And there were, but the limitations of these tools was not obvious until we > were in the middle of the process. And MYOB had its own irritating > "features," which, in hindsight, were worse than the problems with > Quickbooks. And Quickbooks, shortly after we made the switch, corrected > some of the problems that had given me such motivation to switch, plus I > also realized that there would have been workarounds I could have used > that would have made the switch unnecessary. This was a very expensive > mistake, many hundreds of hours of my time.
Abdul: Perhaps you were using the wrong Quickbooks product? I use Quickbooks Pro for my business, and it does everything I need EXCEPT inventory management. The type of inventory management the all of the Quickbooks variants do is not adequate for any business that buys components and builds them into assemblies (i.e. a manufacturing or kitting operation). But Quickbooks Pro inventory management should be sufficient for retail or mail order businesses (where you buy a gross of Care Bears, Beanie Babies, or whatever is the rage now and simply resell them). I don't think you've ever said what type of business your wife has, but if it's manufacturing or kitting, nothing Quickbooks will do it. I handle it by using a custom inventory app I wrote in Access several years ago. My app sucks, but it's better than nothing, and certainly better than the Quickbooks inventory module. There are other accounting software packages out there (Peachtree, etc.) that handle inventory better, but they are not as easy for non-accountants to use as Quickbooks. I use Quickbooks Pro because basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping and Quickbooks Pro is the absolute limit of what I can tolerate. Anything more and my head starts spinning - I leave the dryness of accounting and the perverseness of the tax code to my accountant. Dealing with science and natural law is easy - it never changes, only your understanding of it does. But since man's law is a completely arbitrary fabrication, everything changes, at any time, and usually for no good reason. OK, that's another topic, not to be explored here. BTW, I use an old version of Quickbooks Pro, before they added the Activation nonsense that writes something to the MBR sector of your hard drive. Doubtful that I will be upgrading. Find an older version (pre-2003) of QB Pro if you want to use it. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] What could we expect in next Altium EDA tools? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
