It was blackmail, can’t close out the year end without switching to cloud and monthly payments. When STP got implemented just over a year ago, reckon nobbled my old outright purchase verson on 19 June, two weeks before the end of the financial year, to force me onto subscription. Went with reckon for many years and now with quickbooks. +1 I tried MYOB as a freelance contractor and it was way beyond what I needed, which was just to track income & expenses and build a P&L. “When in business I used both Quickbooks & MYOB. And they all keep the data on your computer and not in the cloud. Linux has been my daily drive for many many years but there are Windows versions of all the above programs.(Even Quicken worked in a fashion in Linux!). You can find it on manager.io I also used it for about a year but it is far more than what I need. It is a full on package with payroll & GST. If anyone is after something more than personal accounting software there is an Australia one called Manager Accounting. I then tried Grisbi and Gnucash and stayed with Gnucash for a number of years but have recently moved on to Homebank as nowadays I only want a simple budgeting tool and this seems to fit my needs but I have only been using it for a couple of months, so time will tell. Once I retired I used Quicken for a while, which was good for keeping track of shares & personal finance but it started to get expensive and my needs became simpler. When in business I used both Quickbooks & MYOB. Free or paid, with the hard work done for you. If you are not born with Excel etc and use it daily, and need a software based solution, it would seem there is only one way to go. I know it can be done, because I kept my basic accounts on a 2002 vintage PDA for many years. More than enough horsepower (or milliwatts) to manage a basic accounting record. What if you live your life on a $200 Android tablet and second tier Samsung smart phone? Or like one of the family who taught at university and got by using the thin client email and supplied browser? (Excel, Publisher and Word skills are optional for those who did Arts-Humanities back in the dark ages of IT.) Or your knowledge of Microsoft only includes it is used to make mobile phones and now sells Surface tablets? I’ll match you a Filter and raise you a Pivot table.īut what if you are not a spread sheet junkie? If you can’t solve a problem with Excel, you haven’t tried hard enough.
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