What accounting software do you use? Pros/ Cons?

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Tony Passwater

QuickBooks R Us
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Answered on July 20th, 2019
I work with clients worldwide. I have clients with Sage Products (Business Works, Mass 90, etc), Peachtree, Simply Accounting, QuickBooks Desktop (Pro, Premier, Enterprise), Patriot, and QuickBooks Online.

QuickBooks Desktop is by far the most common, the easiest to work with, and competitively priced.

I do not recommend QuickBooks Online unless you have a very simple company. The work flow designed on Online is awful, and many clients have scores of issues when trying to clean up the books at month or year end.

if you feel it is necessary to access your accounting out of the office, setting up a remote control connection is always possible.

BTW: QuickBooks Desktop does have a native program designed specifically for Mac, but I highly suggest you use the PC Version and use the emulation programs available. I have several clients that do this with no issues.

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