Quickbooks or Quicken?

[Rick Dolishny]

Funny thing I just two weeks ago found myself on month two of way to busy and hired a bookkeeper. The awesome thing was I was probably incorrectly using Quicken98 Home & Business and I hated it, so I let the bookkeeper install a fresh copy of QuickBooks 2008 Pro and start totally from scratch.

Two weeks (maybe 20 part-time hours total) and my books are in order and I just finished my first automatic GST (Canadian tax) with basically one button. I can see the light … and also can see the value of craigslist and hiring a local bookkeeper for a couple of bucks. 🙂

Maybe if someone set me up with H&B right in the first place I would be OK, but I get a feeling that QuickBooks is sort of the Avid of the accounting world. Kind of a bloated dog (takes like 20 seconds to boot up), kinda strange interface, lots of quirks (uh, features) but it’s the industry standard so deal with it and get on with life.

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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
http://www.thecreativeprocess.ca

[Tad Newberry]

I know this thread is four years old, but my Quicken Home and Business 2009 is no longer supported by Quicken, i.e., i can’t get no mo’ downloads from my bank, so just seeing if there has been any progress made in the area of a Q H&B for Mac these days (yes, still short of QB). I’m about to run to Office Depot to get a disc, but just thought i would check. Still got my little XP PC sitting here JUST for Quicken…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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[Craig Seeman]

Currently there’s Quicken Essentials for Mac
https://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/mac-personal-financial-software.jsp
and info on moving from Windows to Mac.
https://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/quicken-data-files-that-can-be-converted-from-windows-to-mac/GEN82214.html

[Steve Modica]

I’ve used quickbooks for mac (currently 2009) for quite some time, although I don’t do bank downloads with it. I also use quicken essentials for mac (I hate it, but I don’t want the hassle of going to the new 2007 Mountain Lion supported version either).

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications