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QuickBooks – Nothing Beats Free
June 25, 2009 | Comments Off
For my business accounting I use QuickBooks Pro. But to tell you the truth, chances are I would be equally happy with the QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2009. I have less than 20 customers (big ones). And most of what I do need accounting for is create invoices, pay bills and print checks – and I do not even print checks, I fill them out by hand. Good thing I got my Pro version for about $30 bucks on an online offer, and those where $30 bucks well spent. Previous to that my invoices where done on Google Documents, as well as my business accounting. That is an equally effective tool, but QuickBooks takes a lot less.
Most people, including myself, have no clue about business accounting when we start a business. The first time a customer asked me to send them an invoice I didn’t know how one should look like. I had to ask a colleague for a template that he got from another colleague. I didn’t have clue either about how to record money spent, money owed, money people owed me. Most importantly, it was easy for me to loose track of who owed me what and what was the due date for what they did owed me. A real mess.
If you are starting a business, do yourself a favor: Get accounting software. For your financial sake… and because it makes it easier at tax time.
I am still deciding about getting a bookkeeper. Most bookkeeper can handle QuickBooks files and they can make it very easy to exchange information between the business owner, the bookeeper and the tax accountant. More on that later.
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