Despite my misgivings, I agreed to use QuickBooks to keep my accountant happy.

Recently, I also learned about the millions Intuit spent lobbying to keep tax returns complicated. However, I don’t like that the Mac versions of both QuickBooks and Quicken have for years lagged behind the Windows versions, and I find that expensive annual updates rarely add crucial features. Our accountant all but insisted that we use QuickBooks so that she could easily view and update our financial records.

We agreed to endure a considerable amount of extra paperwork in exchange for significant financial and legal benefits.Īccountants love QuickBooks (even if authors don’t) A few months ago, on the advice of our accountant, we reorganized our small business as a corporation. My wife and I are both professional writers.

One of those options probably pops out as an obvious choice, but as I recently discovered, the least-obvious solution is sometimes the best one. Mac users who want to (or have to) use Intuit’s QuickBooks have plenty of choices-we can run the Mac, Windows, or Web app version.