Software for accounts? - Page 2

hannahgrace · #16 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 03:51 AM

I use excel now since the PC with Quicken in it crashed. Quicken is a whole lot easier and has a great debt reduction planner. You can also use it both for personal and small business accounting. Excel will do though it won't generate reports automatically for you and can look a bit messy. If you know how to make it look pretty (I've got a husband who does the "programming" for me) then Excel is a good choice. Otherwise Quicken is better.

Mark A · #17 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dru

Excel is a spreadsheet program. It could be used for some accounting processes, but that would be a lot of effort.

I don't think Mark is looking to turn Excel into a bookkeeping product.

No, Excel is just the tool I use to track my spending and plan for future expenses. It won't balance my checkbook or anything like that, but I don't use it for that.

M.Balaji · #18 (**permalink**) 09-28-2007, 09:26 AM

how to work on Exal ple tell me and hoe to downlode the Exal software

brian · #19 (**permalink**) 09-29-2007, 10:32 AM

I use Excel for my company accounts, namely because the volume of transactions isn't actually too bad. It's simple once you know how to do it, but I did take up training in office products before going into business, to ensure it would help. Now just got to remember how to set up my own database for my website records.

gilbertimlay · #20 (**permalink**) 01-25-2008, 06:21 AM

I use excel becaue it is very easy to use but you can also use Intuit, Quickbooks, Turbocash etc.

C-squared · #21 (**permalink**) 01-27-2008, 04:01 PM

I'm hooked on Quickbooks. I use it for my design business as well as personal funds.

dexter_unlimited · #22 (**permalink**) 02-22-2008, 01:46 AM

For my personal accounting I use Diary, pen and calculator...
Excel is good for official work and for small business Tally pro and SAGE etc..
All depends on the nature of accounting

jeff · #23 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:05 PM

I Use Excel too....Easest way for financial list....

mike95910 · #24 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 10:35 PM

Everyone i know uses quickbooks!!!! very nice!

notaclone · #25 (**permalink**) 09-12-2008, 04:00 PM

I wrote my own database in FileMaker (Quickbooks is too ugly and inflexible). It easily converts Excel spreadsheets and turns it into a real database that you can share easily as well as really chew on the data. Especially if you have a partner and need to invent ways to massage the numbers based on weird things like how much weight to give to "but I wined and dine the guy for a year before he hired us". Of course there are templates if you want to do things 'by the book'.
I supplement with Quicken for the bank interface as I'm too busy to create an interface for that.

Will@Morrow&Company · #26 (**permalink**) 01-30-2009, 01:05 AM

I like Quickbooks, but there is a little bit of a learning curve with it. It prints out nice reports as well. There is also CBS from Thompson that does a really nice job and is easy to use. I actually prefer CBS over QB, it is a lot more user friendly.

ValerieL · #27 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 04:58 PM

I've used QuickBooks Simple Start - you can get the free edition to use if you have up to 20 customers. If you have more, you'd need to buy the normal Simple Start program. But if you try the free version you can at least see if you like it. Then there are a few other versions (Pro, Premium) if you need more features. You can track all your income and expenses.

agreenberg · #28 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009, 02:20 AM

I use a program called centery 21 right now a am turning it into a php web based program if you would like to know more let me know.

MarkHamilton · #29 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009, 04:10 PM

I wrote my own software using a 4th generation language called "Clarion"

Mark

DavidF · #30 (**permalink**) 06-23-2009, 04:29 PM

Lol. I like the people who are writing their own apps. 10% of the people who posted are developers?

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