As the year draws to a close, I am also getting ready to get all my receipts in order for the year-end write offs. I spent the weekend entering everything my one-man company has for the past year into QuickBooks Pro 2006. I was relieved to have found a Mac version. Now I feel much better about myself having completed the company finances. Despite the fact that I started the weekend not knowing anything about QuickBooks and virtually nothing about accounting (let alone corporate accounting), I’d say I did okay with the help of QuickBooks Community. An accounting class is definitely in order though… I don’t want to waste time trying to figure out how to book a stupid PayPal sales refund using appropriate accounting practices AND learning QuickBooks at the same time.
Up next, personal finances with Quicken for Mac.
I do have to rant about QuickBooks for a brief moment though… The shipped-as-is version sucked big time. It’d crash for no reason in about every 10th thing I did… I’d be happily reconciling credit card charges, and POOF!!, the damn thing crashes… And I’d have to set up the whole environment again (that is if previously entered data was even saved). Thank god Intuit has an update file I can download to fix most of the crashes. But that’s modern commercial software sales for you… Get it out of the market with bugs first to get market share — fix the bugs with patches and updates later. Microsoft, more or less, perfected that method with Windows and its Office suites. Apple has been accused of similar charges when it first released Mac OSX… It had no DVD driver!!