In Praise of Framers and QuickBooks Pro 2008

[Art Campbell]

I've used the upper level tier (they keep changing the name -- I think
it's Professional, or Personal & Business today) of Quicken for
consulting and small business stuff. Works fine and it's more
intuitive and better integrated with the regular money management
tools. And the accountants can easily read in the files.

I'd look at it before I plunged into the formal accounting packages
which are probably more powerful than you need.

Art

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Mike Wickham <mewickham at compuserve.com> wrote:
> Rick,
>
>
>  > I am getting ready to incorporate my business and my accountant
>  > recommended
>  > QuickBooks Pro 2008. I was getting ready to buy it, but I am a little
>  > spooked by the negative reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Does anyone here
>  > have any feedback on it?
>
>  I'm sure you can find negative reviews for any accounting program. PC
>  Magazine seems to give QuickBooks the highest rating every year for over a
>  decade. I use it, and find it much easier than a program I used previously,
>  and completely dependable.
>
>  Others have said the interface isn't intuitive, but I don't see how it could
>  get any more so. The opening window is a series of flowcharts divided into
>  things you do with customers, vendors, etc. The flowcharts contain choices
>  like "Create Invoice," "Accept Payment," "Pay Bills," etc. So even a novice
>  should be able to make correct choices most of the time. Once you know what
>  you're doing, you'll be clicking icons in the toolbar, instead of items in a
>  flowchart.
>
>  Of course, even an intuitive interface doesn't make it automatically easy!
>  If one knows nothing of accounting procedures, he'll still get lost because
>  he won't know which accounts to set up, or the difference between how to
>  enter the buying of a new printer or the buying of paper for it. (One is an
>  asset; the other an expense.) If one doesn't know accounting procedures such
>  as these, his financial records will become screwed up royally-- and it
>  doesn't matter which software program he uses.
>
>  Mike Wickham
>
>
>
>
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