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Hi all
I need some recommendations of good accounting software that will run on Macs.
I know Sage and Quickbooks will run in a virtual Windows enviroment on a Mac however what Mac dedicated software is there.
Cheers
Stuart
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Hi Stuart
I think QuickBooks 2011 have just released a Mac version, unfortunately only in US not sure if they intend to do a UK version. However Quickbooks online will work, since its cloud based.
Mike
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Hi Stuart
As a Mac user myself, research has (so far) led me to http://www.accountz.com/. Not yet having had the opportunity to use accounting/bookkeeping software, I can't comment on how good it is.
Hope this helps
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Hi Mikeee
I found the Quickbooks 2011 for mac and excitedly called intuit in the uk only to be told it is for the US only  .
The client concerned does not want to explore the cloud options at this time which is a bugger because I am dying to get a client that will let me have a play around with this format.
Thanks for your help it is greatly appreciated
Kind regards
Stuart
PS are you booked in for Mondays meeting
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Hi Stuart
Have you looked at Solar accounts - accredited by the ICB they say.
Yes I'm booked in for Monday, I'm working flat out at the moment so looking forward to an evening off.
I was thinking of convincing one the companies I work for to move from Quickbooks 2010 to QuickBooks online at the end of the year - at the same time they want to change the accountants they use to a London based one, I will be recommending Wellers:)
Have you any experience using Trax with Sage? I've spent the last week tearing my hair out trying to get it to produce a balance sheet for a month end.
cheers
Mike
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I'm a Mac user and not found anything Mac specific to suit my needs. So I've stuck with Sage / VT via windows emulation.
It does work very well though.
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Hi Mike
I am sorry but I have never come across Trax. What is it
Thanks for the tip I will check Solar out.
Cheers
Stuart
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I have found the perfect solution to your problems!! It's called a PC. They come at a fraction of the cost of a Mac, as you are not paying through the nose for unnecessary styling. Plus, they run pretty much anything just as well (and quite often better) than a Mac! ;-)
I can feel Mr Jobs' minions hunting me down already.....
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LOL @ Jason
Unfortunatley some arty design types seem to think Macs are superior to PC's I think its a styling thing hehehehe
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Jason said:
“I have found the perfect solution to your problems!! It's called a PC. They come at a fraction of the cost of a Mac, as you are not paying through the nose for unnecessary styling. Plus, they run pretty much anything just as well (and quite often better) than a Mac! ;-)
I can feel Mr Jobs' minions hunting me down already.....”
lol... I used to think the same before I started using mine. I've gone through 3 dell laptops in 4 years, on everyone the keyboard fell apart after 9 months. Not to mention shocking battery life, overheating chasis, awful build quality and windows 7.
Sure it's a lot more expensive than a £500 Dell Studio but the difference in quality is worth every penny.
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I agree I prefer macs to pc, but there are few things that don't run on them. I switched to a pc when doing an OU IT degree because of this, but now the later intel macs can boot up as a pc. Which is what I use, a mac book pro with a windows partition on the drive. When its work time I boot it up as a pc when its play time its a Mac :)
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Stuart Wildman said:
“Hi Mike
I am sorry but I have never come across Trax. What is it
Thanks for the tip I will check Solar out.
Cheers
Stuart
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Trax is an excel add in we have just loaded, it connects to sage and allows you to run formulas that will show an account balance eg AuditBal("in (5000,5010)","in(0)", date1, date2) will return the account balance in both 5000 and 5010 dept 0 for the period between date 1 and 2. We are using it to automatically update the monthly accounts in an excel workbook. The dates are referenced from a seperate sheet, so that at the end of the year you change all the dates.
All the accounts that appear in a P&L work a treat but the balance sheet is more of a problem. I'm having to reference the opening balance at the start of the year and then add to it the AuditBal function - which is a nightmare cos you end up with some really long formulas. I just wondered if anyone had used it and if there was an easier way.
cheers
Mike
Edited at 04 Jun 2011 11:22 AM GMT
Edited at 04 Jun 2011 11:27 AM GMT
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Hi
A client of mine only has MACs and we've moved from a dilapidated old laptop using QuickBooks to using a MAC and Xero online accounting. We've been using it since Jan this year and it's pretty good. An online accounting package like Xero of KashFlow might be better for you.
I did a review of several online accounting packages and Xero and KashFlow seemed the best for functionality, intuitiveness as well as doing what we needed.
Hope this helps
Angie
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