Thinking about purchasing account edge
Karen
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I have only used QB on my Mac 10.4.11. I am setting up a new business. Does anyone know if this is easier to use than QB ?
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I have only used QB on my Mac 10.4.11. I am setting up a new business. Does anyone know if this is easier to use than QB ?
2 Posted by Karen on 25 Jan, 2012 12:42 AM
will accountdege 2011 work on a mac 10.4.11 power pc G5
3 Posted by tom.nash on 25 Jan, 2012 06:32 PM
AccountEdge 2011 will work on OS X 10.4 and PowerPC however the latest version that has so far only been released in the US (AccountEdge Pro v2012) requires an Intel Based Mac and 10.5 or later.
-Tom
4 Posted by Dan R on 25 Jan, 2012 07:10 PM
If you are wanting to do full payroll you must always have the latest version (2012) to have the latest tax tables so it would not work on a G5 Mac.
Ease of use can be very subjective. My opinion having used QB briefly years ago and having used MYOB/AE for years is that I prefer AE. Certainly I know AE better now (and its quirks) but beyond that I found QB confusing because it tried to hide more aspects of the accounting. I did not know much about accounting then and I found it more difficult to learn what was gong on with QB. MYOB/AE made more sense to me because it did not hide what it was doing and seemed to more closely resemble basic paper ledger accounting.
There will be a learning curve for either one, but you may want to try a demo of both side by side and see which makes more sense to you. Not just the one you can get more entries in right off the bat.
:-)
Dan
5 Posted by karen kempson on 26 Jan, 2012 02:20 AM
Thanks for the insight. I don't do much payroll so 2011 should work.
Karen
6 Posted by john on 04 Apr, 2012 11:35 PM
im trying to open a company file myob from old mac, system 9. On my windows i get a deadly out of memory message and it fails to open the file
what gives? my windows has a 1Gb Ram and plenty of disc space. do i need more ram?
7 Posted by Dan R on 05 Apr, 2012 03:02 AM
John,
Try using the upgrade assistant first instead of trying to open the file with the program itself.
How old is the file, does it have a .myo extension or a .pls extension?
:-)
Dan