Simply Accounting 2005 Basic

Simply Accounting 2005 Basic

4 stars (Accounting Idiot) - I currently use Ver. 2004 and have not upgraded to v. 2005 but I can say that I love this software. It is inexpensive and does everything you need it to do. I only took one accounting class (hated it) almost 15 years ago so I knew very little about how to keep my own books. I just started my own business and thought I should have some formal record of my financials even if my accountant would have to clean it up later. Simply accounting had wonderful tutorials on CD (included) and I was able to go directly to what area I needed help with. I have to admit that I had to start over with a new company a couple of times because I messed up some entries, but that was because I am not an accountant and didn't want a bunch of adjustments to correct entries. I read the other review and yes, you do get a pop-up window that asks if you are sure you want to enter something older than 7 days, but you can change that in the options. I don't have a lot of paperwork yet so I probably enter documents in maybe once or twice a month and I have NO problems with these infrequent entries. I even created my own personalized invoices, POs, receipts, etc that match my letterhead. I can email or print these out for clients. It sends emails through Outlook. The best part is the wizard. When you set up a new company, the wizard will ask you what type of business you are running and then develop an account list based on that. I was able to add and delete my own as I went along. If you believe you can be taught accounting, give this program a try. 2 stars (Hard to use and unforgiving of errors) - I've used Simply Accounting for my small business for 12 months. It is a decent basic accounting package with all the features you would expect. However, it is hard to work with and extremely unforgiving. The first problem is that Simply Accounting assumes that you will always enter all transactions in ascending date order, and that you use the program at l...
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