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Before I tell you which accounting system is the best, I want to tell you why you need accounting system. You need accounting system for two major reasons.

Reason 1

If your goal is to grow business you can’t successfully manage it without efficient bookkeeping in place. Success requires accurately measuring profits or loss and reasonably estimating your financial condition

Reason 2

If you own a business, you know you have to follow government regulations, which includes filing taxes accurately and on time. It is difficult if not impossible to maintain an accounting system that accurately records your business activities

Now, we took care of the main reason why an accounting system is important for your business. The second natural question is which accounting system would  be appropriate for you specific business.

It is actually becoming quite confusing to choose not only an accounting system but any business application because there are so many to choose from and they all claim to be the best for your business. Because of these confusion, many business owners use programs they are already familiar with  - such as word processor or spreadsheet to track their business activities. Using word processor or spread  you may be able to record incoming and outgoings of your bank account but you  cannot use spreadsheet to do the following:

• Print check
• Summarize and group all your business transactions into their respective categories
• Create invoices and display valuable account information such as account receivables from your clients
• Generate tax reports at the year end
• It would be virtually impossible to customize spreadsheet to make it do what accounting software do

Which Accounting software is suitable for your business?

If you own small business, you have plenty of accounting software to choose from. But there is only one accounting program that majority of small to medium size businesses use and that is QuickBooks. QuickBooks, because of its ease of use, reasonable price and different versions for almost all business types, it has become the accounting program of choice for small businesses around the world.

QuickBooks truly makes bookkeeping very easy

The software doesn't require you to read 500 pages of technical "how to" book to start using it. But you will need to set it up correctly and actively record your business transactions. If you are too busy to maintaining your books, I recommend you hire a bookkeeper on a par time or full time basis.

Let mention some of the major benefits you will get from QuickBooks

• It makes tax time easy
• It gives you clear view of your business performance
• It makes invoicing and account receivables easy
• It makes paying bills very easy

SETTING UP QUICKBOOKS

I have told you not to use spreadsheet because you will end up pulling your hair out as you try to make it work for your business

I have also told you if you don’t keep your business books accurately your business will fail

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I also advised you to invest in QuickBooks because it is the best small business accounting software

I also want to be honest and tell you about two most important things you need to do to successfully setup QuickBooks for your business:

1 Initial business books setup is one of the hardest part of getting your business accounting records working properly

2 If your book is not setup properly it will lead to inefficiencies and extra cost later on if you have to pay accountant or bookkeeper to correct things

I am a business application specialist including QuickBooks. Call me at 403-474-1989 or send me and email and I will do the following for you:

• Asses your bookkeeping software needs
• Asses if your computer support the QuickBooks you choose and help you upgrade your computer if necessary
• Recommend buying the version of QuickBooks that is best for your business type
• Help you setup the books correctly. This is very crucial step
• Teach you how to get more from QuickBooks in least amount of time
• Try my best to solve your QuickBooks problems
• Provide you professional service
• If you are not happy with my service, you will get free services till you are satisfied.   Next more details