Re:Ask YC: accounting help
by hbien on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @10:03PM
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I'm on a Mac, and I've heard a lot of complaints that Quickbooks can't transfer data back and forth between Mac/Window machines. I imagine a lot of accountants use Windows.
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I'm on a Mac also, and thankfully haven't had to worry about this for the last few years :) And yeah, I've never met an accountant on Windows.
I'm OS agnostic, I prefer to use what I think is the best solution for the problem. With that in mind, it might be worthwhile to look into a windows machine to run QB. You can rdesktop to it (there is a great rdesktop app for the Mac), and when you get to the point of having a part-time accounting person come in, the PC will already be all set up for their use. This is what I did in the past (dedicated low-end PC for "hosting" QB).
I think there's a lot more mileage in running Windows under VMWare Fusion or Parallels, than in having an entire machine dedicated to doing nothing but running Quickbooks.
Might help the balance sheet out... :)
Would running a Windows VM work for you? VMware Fusion is a terrific product.
Yeah, I'm running Quickbooks on my Parallels partition. If you ever need to go to the next level - i.e. have someone else take over accounting from you - you should really run a Windows Quickbooks install. It's not worth the headache to try anything else.