For those who've been following the saga of
Intuit's deliberate slighting of its firearms industry customers, and wish to boycott that company's products (as I'm doing), there are a couple of excellent alternatives to its Quickbooks small business accounting software.
My accountant had recommended that I use Quickbooks for the company
Miss D. and I have just set up, as a corporate structure for our books and publishing activities. However, in the light of recent events, that's obviously a non-starter. I looked online, and found that PC Magazine had recently reviewed "
The Best Small Business Accounting Software of 2018". There were three Editors' Choice awards: Quickbooks,
Wave, and
AccountEdge Pro (follow the links to the reviews). The latter costs $399, whereas Wave is free to try, free for limited business use, and very low-cost even if you add in its advanced features such as payroll processing. Naturally, given that both packages were equally highly rated by PC Magazine, I chose Wave on cost grounds.
I've been playing with Wave for a couple of days. It's easy to master, particularly if you've used any form of personal finance or small business accounting package before. I particularly like the fact that it offers genuine double-entry accounting, something many "lightweight" packages lack. My accountant says it'll do just fine from his perspective, so as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to be riding the Wave!
I figured some of you might be interested in either Wave, or AccountEdge Pro, as viable alternatives to Quickbooks. If anyone has a favorite tax preparation package that's a viable alternative to Intuit's TurboTax, please let us know in Comments. (Miss D. and I are going to have our accountant prepare our taxes - it's not much of an additional charge, over and above preparing our business accounts.)
Peter
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