I’m not the biggest fan of Quickbooks. I never have been, ever since it came out years ago, disrupting the batch-based accounting software environment. I have never been comfortable with the way things can be deleted without a trace, despite having existed as an actual transaction. And the messaging – but that’s a different post.
In this post, I will describe what I do like about Quickbooks (desktop version)!
There are some features in there that I am very fond of – I wish other programs would pick them up, and in the meantime I will miss them.
One is 3-up checks: for personal accounting use, are much more applicable than 1-up.
Within transactions, I’ve always enjoyed how dates can be adjusted by the plus key/minus key. And that within the quantity field, you can do math! You can add up multiple amounts (within a grocery receipt, for instance) to be the amount for a specific gl account. I really miss that also.
As a Quickbooks Pro Advisor many years ago, I know they have done a lot in the name of ease of use. Those are my favorite things.
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