MYOB, Sage or Quickbooks?

[Recruitment1]

Can we discuss which software is more user friendly or does it depend on whether you're a book keeper or accountant. I've heard Accountants prefer sage but quickbooks is more user friendly.

I am looking to get into book keeping.

[Indizine]

getting into it as in running a book-keeping business yourself, you mean?

[Recruitment1]

Yes, working as a self employed book keeper.

[DavidT]

I've always found MYOB or QuickBooks quite intuitive, but Sage can be fine once you become familiar with it - just a little expensive.

Do check out e-conomic as an option - no costs to you for your own use or access to clients, just for the client companies and their access and also some brilliant add-on options if you need it.

[boxby]

I am an accountant. i HATE sage. I shiver at just a screen shot.

[James Smith]

heh - my thoughts exactly boxby. I normally reckon it takes about an extra hour of my time to do a set of accounts in SAGE vs Quickbooks for a small trading company. Its mainly the lack of drill downs and the fact you cant correct errors (and clients who are not bookkeepers naturally make quite a few of them per year!). Even little things like the extra number of clicks to export documents into excel grates after a while.

I did use it for 2 years in an industry job, so its not as if I don't know how to use it either.

Regards,

[AccountingBasics]

I have used both Sage for a large organisation and Quickbooks for both my own accounts and a bookkeeping business. Quickbooks wins for me, as it user friendly, cheaper and easier to correct mistakes.

[Recruitment1]

Thanks again everyone, I think I will go with Quickbooks as I'm setting up my own book keeping business. Who knows later down the line I may take a course in Sage. As James said the more versatile you are the better.

[AVS Agencies]

Sage is not as scary as all that! At least not now, some years ago maybe, prior to the correction button, then it made for an interesting time when mistakes were made ...

[Interconnect IT]

If you learn e-conomic then you might have a client in me. We use it and love it, but I'm not a natural bookkeeper and I keep making dumb mistakes which just make my accounts harder to read.