On 27/11/2006, at 8:39 AM, John & Julie Thompson wrote:
Hi,
From personal experience with club and society finances, I wouldn't
go past Moneyworks. Moneyworks Express is quite powerful, covers GST
and Salaries but not invrntory (need Gold for that), and most
important, very easy to use and understand. If you want total
confusion (unless you are a trained accountant) you can opt for MYOB.
I think you are being very unkind to MYOB, John. In my experience, a
large percentage of business owners like the work they do but really
dislike "doing the books". In the good old days we could all afford to
send our stuff to accountants in the shoe box and not have to think
about it. John Howard put paid to that when he introduced GST and
forced us to do the books, as we should have done from day one if we
were running a business anyway. I know many accountants told their
clients to computerise or else go walk - they just would not have been
able to handle it.
MYOB was quite probably the first business accounting package that
really made it affordable for small/medium businesses to do their own
thing. What used to cost $4-5,000 was reduced to about $400 and later
on even less for small/simple businesses. The main thing is that the
user is trained in a manner that they understand, not how the trainer
wants to present it. As an example, I recently helped a lady to set up
her husband's business and was training her in it's use. She was
carrying on the whole time and I had really thought that I had lost
her, but I kept calm and tried to show what she needed from her point
of view using her work flow. A few months later I got a surprise email
from her thanking me for my perseverence and stating that she thinks
MYOB is the best thing since sliced bread! (I think that's a bit
debatable:)).
So I am sorry you have had a bad experience with MYOB, but you
certainly do not need to be a trained accountant to use it! Actually I
know of some who can't use it themselves!! but that is more to do with
their technophobia, I think.
Cheers, Alex
Regards
John Thompson
On 26/11/2006, at 7:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm running the books for a student society next year and need some
good
accounting software for my mac. Does anyone have any pointers?
Thanks,
Christof S.
Alex Novakovic - Best Computer Accounting
MYOB Certified Consultant
Mobile: 041 990 2440
Phone: 9305 6310
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