Many small businesses start out tracking their revenues and expenses with a manual ledger system or a spreadsheet. As a business grows, however, this becomes an onerous task with the increased volume ...

The right accounting package should (1) give you the information you need for management, tax estimation and tax preparation, and (2) enable you to easily input the figures. Management needs are ...

Feeling the weight of the April 15 tax deadline yet? Or rather April 18 because Emancipation Day—a national holiday—falls on April 15 this year. The amount of stress-fueled scrambling to meet that tax ...

If you're like most business owners, you probably started out keeping tabs on your money using a spreadsheet. That's a smart strategy when starting, but as your firm expands, it will undoubtedly get ...

https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/index/software_services/accounting.html is the language of business, and good accounting software can save you hundreds of ...

As financial reporting has progressed from using carbon hard copies and one-write systems to Lotus Notes and eventually online databases, systems-related issues and problems have kept pace. Varying ...

Accounting and auditing software is a must-have for any business, regardless of its size. While the scope of an accounting package can vary greatly, all share common functions. They track accounts ...

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After researching and testing the best restaurant accounting software, Zoho Books emerged as a clear frontrunner. Not only does it offer strong bookkeeping functions and sector-specific capabilities ...

Old software packages don’t die, especially if they are source code versions. Just look at RealWorld. RealWorld? Wasn’t that purchased by Great Plains ages ago? Yes, Great Plains did purchase ...

ROBERTA ANN JONES, CPA, PhD, is an associate professor of accounting at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her e-mail address is roajones@calpoly.edu . Trying to adapt ...