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| very well meet all of you accounting needs! Be | | | | grows the Express Version you can easily |
| sure that any products used for business | | | | upgrade to the paid Professional Version. |
| purposes will create suitable audit trails to help | | | | Choice Accounting Choice Technologies provides |
| avoid trying to recreate data at a later date. Also | | | | this basic Choice Accounting Package as a free |
| make sure that any accounting software used | | | | download anticipating that you will at some point |
| whether free or paid, will meet all of your needs | | | | purchase additional products and services from |
| both today and in the near future to avoid having | | | | their company. It is very easy to master this |
| to go through a possibly cumbersome upgrade | | | | program which is a full-featured accounting and |
| down the road. | | | | bookkeeping system target to small businesses. It |
| The following are some of the most popular free | | | | has a setup wizard that can create a dataset in |
| accounting software products available. | | | | just a few minutes. |
| Free Accounting Software 2.0 One very popular | | | | Accounting Startup Edition Dynacom offers this |
| free downloadable accounting product is Free | | | | Accounting Startup Edition free with one caveat, |
| Accounting Software 2.0 from Systems Online. | | | | you are required to link to them in your emails |
| Even though this Windows based program is free, | | | | and/or on your internet site. This should be easy |
| it is still a complete multiuser, multicompany, and | | | | for a small business to do especially if it is a home |
| multibranch accounting, inventory, and customer | | | | based business that may not have a very formal |
| management solution for business. Free | | | | website anyway. It includes all the basic |
| Accounting includes: physical and non-physical | | | | accounting functions needed to manage your |
| inventory, invoicing, customers, contacts, vendors, | | | | business efficiently: purchasing, sales, general |
| inventory, sales, sales returns and credit memos, | | | | ledger and banking. It even includes payroll! To |
| quotes, purchasing, and purchase returns. | | | | make a great offer even better, it comes with |
| Furthermore it can handle complete AR and AP | | | | no time or transaction limitation. Like other good |
| with all accounting functions and journals including | | | | free accounting software you can easily upgrade |
| general journal, inventory control journal, | | | | to a more advanced products if your business |
| checkbooks, and bank reconciliation and deposits. | | | | outgrows this program. |
| This new version is a major upgrade with many | | | | GnuCash Due to the increasing popularity of the |
| valuable features including FIFO/LIFO and Average | | | | Linux platform this product is worth mentioning. |
| cost accounting! (To keep this product free you | | | | GnuCash is an Linux open source accounting |
| will be required to link to them on your web site. | | | | application. In fact GnuCash is the leading free, |
| Otherwise you will be required to pay a small fee.) | | | | open source accounting program for Linux. |
| Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 | | | | GnuCash is a functional replacement for many of |
| Another exciting product is Microsoft Office | | | | the expensive accounting programs. This release |
| Accounting Express 2007. Microsoft promotes this | | | | is a new version for 2007! |
| new free product as, "Everything you need to | | | | Note: If you prefer one of the commercially |
| make your small business idea flourish. Microsoft | | | | available accounting products (QuickBooks, |
| Office Accounting 2007 is available in the U.S. only, | | | | NetSuite, Peachtree, Simply Accounting) you can |
| as a free download or on a CD. An advantage to | | | | often find them available as 60 day trial versions. |