Accounting Software Mac

[dibbers006]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 19 December 2023 at 21:47

[ChiChoAndy]

There is a whole bunch of finance based apps in the app store, many of them free.

[MrReg]

Did use Kashflow previously which was good, but £17.99pm.

[Matt..]

I use Jumsoft Money and have done so for the past 3-4yrs. I use an old version though and it's not free. It is very good though. I really like it's simplicity as i didn't want anything with pointless features, all i wanted was the ability to have many accounts listed and to be able to easily do reports.

[Strangely Brown]

I use iBank 3.x for personal and house accounts. It works exactly how I like to work so I haven't bothered to upgrade to the latest 4.x. (If it ain't broke...).

I have tried many of the others that are available and all of them have something that I can't get on with in one way or another. You'll just have to try them and find one that you can get on with. Unfortunately, it is probably the one area where there is a gap in the Mac software market.

[Strangely Brown]

dibbers006 said:

What is the benefit of these over a good ol' excel document?

Presumably the Format/ Calculations are done for you and it is more visually easy to export something of use?

In theory, depending on the complexity of the Excel document, possibly none. In practice, how much work do you want to do beyond setting up the accounts, the regular payments and entering the transactions?

[Stu - B]

http://www.xero.com/mac-accounting/

I use PC version and am very pleased. "Cloud" software.

[Strangely Brown]

Stu - B said:

http://www.xero.com/mac-accounting/

I use PC version and am very pleased. "Cloud" software.

Of all the uses there may be for the trendy "Cloud" based apps where your data is stored "somewhere", my accounts would never be one of them.

[bga]

Stu - B said:

http://www.xero.com/mac-accounting/

I use PC version and am very pleased. "Cloud" software.

Another vote for Xero

[Stu - B]

Strangely Brown said:

Stu - B said:

http://www.xero.com/mac-accounting/

I use PC version and am very pleased. "Cloud" software.

Of all the uses there may be for the trendy "Cloud" based apps where your data is stored "somewhere", my accounts would never be one of them.

Not evangelical about it but Xero, Salesforce and Google Apps and the like tend to be well thought out programmes and have merit.

[Strangely Brown]

Stu - B said:

Not evangelical about it but Xero, Salesforce and Google Apps and the like tend to be well thought out programmes and have merit.

That's all well and good but I would still never trust my accounting data to "the cloud" <makes wavey gesture with hands to indicate out there>.

Frankly, I find it quite shocking that people, in general, are willing to entrust so much personal information to services that they know next to bugger all about.

[Stu - B]

People in general might, but I have researched these programs and am happy.

[bga]

Strangely Brown said:

Frankly, I find it quite shocking that people, in general, are willing to entrust so much personal information to services that they know next to bugger all about.

Most individuals cannot host a secure server to provide personal email etc. Companies have been using remote application and data hosting for many years. The hosting providers operate sets of controls and contractual conditions that give a customer an adequate level of comfort over security and operation of the service.

While SAS 70 isn't exactly a great standard from an IT PoV, Xero audits to that standard which is as good as many organisations providing services to FTSE 100 companies.