Recommended Accounting Applications?

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-hh - 23 Mar 2008 02:16 GMT

Been starting to research doing small business accounting on the Mac;
have found these Apps so far:

MYOB / AccountEdge & FirstEdge

Intuit / Quickbooks & Quicken

Liquid Ledger

Q1: Any others (worth considering)?

Q2: Any suggestions. Pro's/Con's for any of the above?

I do see that as per some Amazon reviews that Intuit's Quickbooks for
Mac OS X is pretty thoroughly loathed. Also, that a new revision that
was announced in Sept 2007 for "2008" is still TBD for its release
date. Similarly, several of these offer free downloads &
trials...that's probably the next step, after getting through the
"forewarned is forearmed" stage.

-hh

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Michael Vilain - 23 Mar 2008 17:02 GMT

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> Been starting to research doing small business accounting on the Mac;
> have found these Apps so far:
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> -hh

If you have your taxes "done" or your books "done" by anyone other than
yourself or plan in the future to have a professional "do" them, get the
PC version Quickbooks and run it under Fusion or Parallels. It can also
run under VPC on a PPC system but it will be slow.

QB can handle about 2000+ "customers" or vendors used for billing and
tracking income. It's not so good for doing recurring time-dependent
payments like for a subscription or membership based business. AFAIK,
neither can the other two packages you mentioned. If you're dealing
with a midium-sized ($15M/year) company with 5000 or more customers,
you'll have to look at mid-tier real double entry accounting package.
In that case, hire an accountant to do the research since an accountant
will most likely be using it.

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