Monday, September 14, 2009

Accounting Software For Small Business

By Andre Lesma

If you run a small business, the last thing you want to ask is where all the money went. That's why high quality accounting software is such a priority. You'll need software that's made to deal with business tasks, not just regular homeowner and taxpayer ones, but something that's not too expensive. Fortunately, there are plenty of options on the market to help you. Let's take a look at the top five small business programs out there and what they could do to help you.

1. QuickBooks from Intuit has been around for a long time and is a popular series of programs designed to do all kinds of payroll and accounting tasks. It comes in a number of different varieties, including Basic, Pro, Premier and Online editions. In the Pro edition, you'll get helpful management tools, including a projector for cash flow and a tracker for company vehicle mileage. Choose the one that'll work best for you and your budget.

2. Simply Accounting - this is another package which is very useful and it has data entry screens similar in appearance to the paper accounting methods of old. With all kinds of reports, some especially designed with ecommerce and the Internet in mind, accounting and payroll features and tips about screen and drag and drop this package provides quite a shallow learning curve. If you require time and billing modules you should opt for the professional version of Simply Accounting.

3. Peachtree - for a software program that includes over a hundred and twenty five different reports, an in depth inventory feature, job costing, time and billing and a lot more, try the complete version of Peachtree. This program is ready for multiple users and includes value packs for those who need to have three or more users at once. Premium and First editions are also available from Peachtree.

4. Sage BusinessVision completes tasks for you such as automatic year end processing. Backdated transactions can be applied to the previous 12 months even when the year is finished and as well as featuring a shopping cart and web store this particular program integrates well with Act! This package is available in limited, small business, standard and client server editions.

5. Microsoft Office Small Business - No office software list would be completely without an offering from Microsoft, the giant of software production on markets for many years. The biggest and best feature of this program is its integration with Office - a benefit for people already using this popular office suite. This allows you to reuse data in Outlook and Excel, avoiding the need to re-enter it. An additional set of add on services include PayPal invoicing and online payroll.

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