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(8/31/2001 2:01:26 PM) Kathy wrote:
I have been using Quicken for several years for our farm accounting. We are a sole proprietorship grain farm. I currently use Quicken 2000. I also have a copy of QuickBooks 6 with Y2K upgrades which I downloaded from the net but I've never got around to using it much since Quicken was so quick and easy. This year we had a crop failure and I thought it might be a good time to start using QuickBooks since I could start fresh with no crop inventory to enter in. So I have several questions. Will my Quicken 2000 files convert to QuickBooks 6? Should I go with the QuickBooks 6 or buy a new version of QuickBooks? If so, which version of QuickBooks is recommended? Any advice on this will be appreciated. Thanks.
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We have a ranch were we raise cattle and then sell steaks through a separate company we created.
We used Quicken for years and are "normally" happy with it (+/-). I bought QuickBooks 2002 mainly to track our inventory of steaks, roasts, sausages, etc. I did this after using several downloaded trial versions of QuickBooks.
I find QuickBooks very challenging to work -- and it doesn't do some of the nice and simple things that Quicken does. For example the "Find" tool for locating past receipts is difficult to use and "stupid". We continue to use Quicken for our personal finances, so that makes it even more confusing. We recently upgrade to Quicken Home and Business Premier 2003 (which I got free by buying 6 HP ink cartridges).
If you are still interested in QuickBooks, I would request a free trial CD from the Intuit website. Then try it for 15 openings of the program (I think) and see.
At any rate get the very latest edition -- some of the bugs have been fixed. Although, I read about some horrendous problems on the net about 2003, so maybe buy 2002, you can probably find any copies left pretty cheap at NexTag.com
Good Luck & God Bless
Ron
(8/31/2001 2:01:26 PM) Kathy wrote:
I have been using Quicken for several years for our farm accounting. We are a sole proprietorship grain farm. I currently use Quicken 2000. I also have a copy of QuickBooks 6 with Y2K upgrades which I downloaded from the net but I've never got around to using it much since Quicken was so quick and easy. This year we had a crop failure and I thought it might be a good time to start using QuickBooks since I could start fresh with no crop inventory to enter in. So I have several questions. Will my Quicken 2000 files convert to QuickBooks 6? Should I go with the QuickBooks 6 or buy a new version of QuickBooks? If so, which version of QuickBooks is recommended? Any advice on this will be appreciated. Thanks.
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We have a ranch were we raise cattle and then sell steaks through a separate company we created.
We used Quicken for years and are "normally" happy with it (+/-). I bought QuickBooks 2002 mainly to track our inventory of steaks, roasts, sausages, etc. I did this after using several downloaded trial versions of QuickBooks.
I find QuickBooks very challenging to work -- and it doesn't do some of the nice and simple things that Quicken does. For example the "Find" tool for locating past receipts is difficult to use and "stupid". We continue to use Quicken for our personal finances, so that makes it even more confusing. We recently upgrade to Quicken Home and Business Premier 2003 (which I got free by buying 6 HP ink cartridges).
If you are still interested in QuickBooks, I would request a free trial CD from the Intuit website. Then try it for 15 openings of the program (I think) and see.
At any rate get the very latest edition -- some of the bugs have been fixed. Although, I read about some horrendous problems on the net about 2003, so maybe buy 2002, you can probably find any copies left pretty cheap at NexTag.com
Good Luck & God Bless
Ron