Basic accounting app

Kemik

Kemik

Kemik

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Hey,

Can anyone suggest a basic accounting app for the following purposes?

  1. Service based company. My dad basically repairs heavy goods vehicles. Sometimes he has to buy parts in.
  2. Create invoices including labour and any parts required, add payment to the invoice.
  3. Add expenses incurred with some associated to orders (e.g. the parts) and others associated to normal accounts such as fuel.
  4. Transfer between accounts. E.g. Business to tax.

I'm trying out Quickbooks but it's pretty complicated for what it does. I see no way to add, for example, a telephone bill. Creating and paying an invoice is easy enough but if my dad pays in cash for a part, I see no way to add that.

Thanks
 
Kemik said:
Hey,

Can anyone suggest a basic accounting app for the following purposes?

  1. Service based company. My dad basically repairs heavy goods vehicles. Sometimes he has to buy parts in.
  2. Create invoices including labour and any parts required, add payment to the invoice.
  3. Add expenses incurred with some associated to orders (e.g. the parts) and others associated to normal accounts such as fuel.
  4. Transfer between accounts. E.g. Business to tax.

I'm trying out Quickbooks but it's pretty complicated for what it does. I see no way to add, for example, a telephone bill. Creating and paying an invoice is easy enough but if my dad pays in cash for a part, I see no way to add that.

Thanks
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Cash and personal payments for business expenses can be done via (say) his Director's Loan/Current account.

If he is VAT registered, it can be a potential problem if it the invoice is in his name rather than the company's.

VT Transaction/Accounts is quite useful, as it produces Statutory Accounts which Quickbooks does not, IIRC. VT is Excel based.

http://www.vtsoftware.co.uk/
 
are you looking for specific apple software? i went through the process of trying to settle on a decent apple-based accounting app a while back and gave up in the end... for some strange reason there is no simple, cocoa based, easy to use accounting software for mac that i could find :confused:
 
MuGeN said:
are you looking for specific apple software? i went through the process of trying to settle on a decent apple-based accounting app a while back and gave up in the end... for some strange reason there is no simple, cocoa based, easy to use accounting software for mac that i could find :confused:
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M.Y.O.B. used to do a Mac/Windows accounts program.

But it was taken over by Mamut in 2008. I don't if mac is still supported, or even available.
 
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