Fill me in on quickbooks, please?

[M A V I C]

My accounting is currently done in Excel. My accountant charges me an extra fee to convert my spreadsheet into something more usable for her. Plus, I need to get better about my accounting altogether.

My accountant suggest Quickbooks or Money. She uses Windows. I've considered Money as I can get it from the employee store for ~$40. I just checked dealmac and found a deal for $155 for quickbooks.

I have a bit of an issue with Intuit. When they dropped Mac support a few years ago it really saddened me to see a number of Macs at work swapped out for PC's. But I'm willing to put that aside.

Is the exported file from Quickbooks on a Mac completely compatible with the Windows version? Do I have to upgrade every year? (I'll only be using it for accounting, not filing taxes.)

I used Quicken many years ago, that's all my experience with this sort of software. Thsi would be used for both corporation and personal accounting. Thanks.

[Spock]

The new Mac version, QB 2006 has improved export/import to/from Windows. I have used QB since 1998 and the latest version is the best yet.

Spock

[M A V I C]

Any idea how much better it has become? I don't want to spend a bunch of cash, input all the data and then find out it wont work. I suppose I could buy it, send my accountant a test file, then return it if it doesn't work.

[jardster]

My accountant has problems with my Quickbooks Pro 6 files, despite the fact that they are supposed to be able to be opened in Windows (there is a command for "create a file for Quickbooks Windows." My business is small enough that I can create a bunch of reports and he can get most data from there.

[lafinfil]

Take a look at MYOB too while you're looking

They were the ones that stuck with mac when Intuit bailed

Free download to try and accounting support http://www.myob.com/us/

[M A V I C]

I wont touch MYOB. I signed up for their demo and had a question about it. Time went buy and I didn't get a response. Then I started getting spam from them.