Here it is, that time of year when some people resolve to do better in the New Year. It always amazes me that "Getting Organized" is a fact of life come January 1st...every year!
I was at Office Depot today to get a new bigger, better hub for my computer. I love that store, spent an hour walking and looking around. I ended up not only buying the hub that I went in for, but spent another $179 on QuickBooks Pro. I thought about going to QuickBooks last year but never got around to it. Now, my Quicken Home and Business (from 2004) is outdated - so, I kind of told myself I really need to get new financial software. I installed it and successfully imported all my quicken financial files over to it... and it was so easy!
Just from what I've read about QuickBooks, this will be a MAJOR improvement in my business record keeping!
The next organizational effort will be to "get it all together" for tax filings. I know that QuickBooks will make it much easier for me to do that the end of 2008.
I also need to empty old files to make more room.
It's never ending... never ending... never ending...
I like Quicken Home & Business. I have used Quickbooks for another business but it is a little more bookkeeping program than I want.
What I really like is "Turbo Tax Home & Business."
I used this for the first time for 2005 taxes and it saved me mucho dollars. The reason is the program asked me so many detailed questions on my business deductions that I hadn't thought of before.
It was simple to use and cost approx $85 at Costco instead of the almost $500 I was spending on my business and personal taxes.
You can download your information from Quicken & Quickbooks into Turbo Tax.
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