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Topic: Accounting program

Posted By: bobkyllo
Subject: Accounting program
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2019 at 10:27pm

I'm just finishing up my taxes and I think I need help. What do you guys use to track expenses and income.

I get my mechanic income, cow income, crop income, and machinery sales income.

Then I need to track expenses also.

But here is the catch my computer is running Vista windows.

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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 7:23am

You can always just build it yourself with Excel. A tab for cows, a tab for mechanic, etc. Keep modifying it until you have everything you want. That's what we do.

There's some nice feature in the purchased stuff like Quick Books. Just depends on what you want it to do and how much you want to spend on it.

Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 8:44am

After 30 years of 'doing the books' for my company, using 6-7 canned accounting programs and creating VISICALC spreadsheets, I FINALLY got smart and simplified the system. Up here, north of the 49th, the guv don't care how much you gas for the truck you bought, ONLY the 'bottom line'. So instead of taking 2 weeks ,I've got it down to 2 hours.

The 'trick' is to have ONE bank account for 100% of the business. I download the entire year's worth of transactions as a CSV file. That loads into Excel, I then add a column for ''type of transaction", do a few calculations and ....whamm, bamm, thank you mamm...99% of the numbers are crunched. Hand copy to tax form, deliver, dun...

Jay

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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 3:37pm

Ours is all done on paper during the year and at tax time the figures are added up and put on the lines, sign it ,--send it in! Takes bout an hour to fill the stuff out. can't get any simpler than that!

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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 6:31pm

Quicken should be capable of doing all of that. You just have to make sure you put in the necessary info when you make an entry. There are quick reports that allow you to view what category you choose for what time frame you are looking at. The reports are printable and you can save them as well. I used to use it for my Itemized Deductions for my Taxes, when we could do that!

You can probably run Quicken with Vista as well. Check the box.

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Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 7:00pm

I'm with John on Quicken, I used it for years, wife does it now. You can mark any payment either check, transfer or whatever and break it down like house payment, $XXX.XX principal, $XXX.XX interest and there is a check box for Tax Deductible. At the end of the year you can run a report for Tax Deductibles and it will not only print each individual transaction but add it up and give you a total of each category and you can make how many ever categories you want.

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