Accounting software
Discussion
Most accounting software works fine. What is most important is the competence and knowledge of the individuals who use the systems.
For experienced book-keepers and accountants, Sage is probably best.
For non-accounting trained business people, maybe Quickbookws is the best option.
I cannot comment on Tasbooks as it is over ten years since I last saw it in action (and I wasn't that impressed back then).
For experienced book-keepers and accountants, Sage is probably best.
For non-accounting trained business people, maybe Quickbookws is the best option.
I cannot comment on Tasbooks as it is over ten years since I last saw it in action (and I wasn't that impressed back then).
Edited by Eric Mc on Thursday 1st March 17:37
I use Quickbooks Pro. It does most of what's required, but not particularly well or intuitively (ironically it's made be a company called Intuit).
E.G. You cannot part-pay a bill. Bleeding pain, that is. And you can't offset a supplier's bill against an invoice to that same supplier. Unless I have more to learn... Eric?
(sorry for the mini-hijack)
E.G. You cannot part-pay a bill. Bleeding pain, that is. And you can't offset a supplier's bill against an invoice to that same supplier. Unless I have more to learn... Eric?
(sorry for the mini-hijack)
Eric Mc said:
Most accounting software works fine. What is most important is the competence and knowledge of the individuals who use the systems.
For experienced book-keepers and accountants, Sage is probably best.
For non-accounting trained business people, maybe Quickbookws is the best option.
I cannot comment on Tasbooks as it is over ten years since I last saw it in action (and I wasn't that impressed back then).
For experienced book-keepers and accountants, Sage is probably best.
For non-accounting trained business people, maybe Quickbookws is the best option.
I cannot comment on Tasbooks as it is over ten years since I last saw it in action (and I wasn't that impressed back then).
Edited by Eric Mc on Thursday 1st March 17:37
I am not an accountant, and my accountant is happy to receive any format of file from me to tidy up.
I just want a supplier and balance sheet type thing that can maybe interface with BOS internet business banking
and to generate invoices etc
BliarOut said:
rich1231 said:
I did notice an office 2007 download for a business accounting package, free from MS, but its a US only version which is abit of a pain
That's on the roadmap for launch over here but MS couldn't give a timescale when I rang them.
it actually looks very good, as well
jacobyte said:
I use Quickbooks Pro. It does most of what's required, but not particularly well or intuitively (ironically it's made be a company called Intuit).
E.G. You cannot part-pay a bill. Bleeding pain, that is. And you can't offset a supplier's bill against an invoice to that same supplier. Unless I have more to learn... Eric?
(sorry for the mini-hijack)
E.G. You cannot part-pay a bill. Bleeding pain, that is. And you can't offset a supplier's bill against an invoice to that same supplier. Unless I have more to learn... Eric?
(sorry for the mini-hijack)
I use QB 2005, seems fine to me.
I think you can part-pay a bill, but I've hit the bill/invoice from the same supplier thing too.
rich1231 said:
BliarOut said:
rich1231 said:
I did notice an office 2007 download for a business accounting package, free from MS, but its a US only version which is abit of a pain
That's on the roadmap for launch over here but MS couldn't give a timescale when I rang them.
it actually looks very good, as well
I thought so too.... The obvious ties into everything MS made sense and I *think* it integrates with Small Business Contact manager too which is a boon for a small business.
I read somewhere that M$ have stated that they won't be bringing Small Business Accounting to Europe... however, being Americans, they don't class the UK as being europe, I think they were referring to multi-lingual versions, so we'll see it sometime no doubt.
Right now I believe they have their hands full fighting anti-trust and competition law cases in the european courts... they just lost a multi billion case in the US around patent infringement of MP3 in Media Player... and they also have their hands full with the recent launch of Vista and Office 2007... anyone used these? if you do make sure you have a powerful PC for Vista and allow plenty of time to get up to speed with office 2007, especially Excel 2007.
Right now I believe they have their hands full fighting anti-trust and competition law cases in the european courts... they just lost a multi billion case in the US around patent infringement of MP3 in Media Player... and they also have their hands full with the recent launch of Vista and Office 2007... anyone used these? if you do make sure you have a powerful PC for Vista and allow plenty of time to get up to speed with office 2007, especially Excel 2007.
We used Sage for a short while but found it to be heavily resource dependant for a firm like ours (clumsy if you don't have a thorough accountancy understanding, and almost impossible to correct any mistakes), so we opted for Quickbooks which can be used successfully by Numpties like us 
. We found the way to deal with the same supplier/customer issue was to change the name slightly.
. We found the way to deal with the same supplier/customer issue was to change the name slightly. TDIPLC said:
We found the way to deal with the same supplier/customer issue was to change the name slightly.
The trouble is when (say) the company as a customer owes you £1000, and as a supplier you owe them £100, and then they pay you £900 to settle the difference - it gets hard to sort out quite how to enter that reconciled with your bank statement...
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