What program do you use to keep business records?
 

I use excel for now but im looking for something that might have some kind of encryption, I'm a paranoid security nut :o

What do you use to keep expense tracking, Checks, Investments etc.. ?

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I'd liek to know as well. I talked to my personal accountant and he didn;t know fo any. He says msot of his friends and customers use excel but it's a pain to keep it organized.

I can keep excel pretty well a tight ship but i dont like how it can be looked at by anyone, I like to keep all my sponsor passwords etc in a file so i dont loose any shit, There is a nice program called ExcelShield but its like 400 euros, Fuck that :(

I use paper and pencil

LOL, I got enough paper to last me years, Got about every reciept from the last 7 years in boxes ;)

my wife...

how much for one of those? :Graucho :banana

Try quickbooks

Access might work better or a combo of access/excel. I setup a mini-tower behind my desk and hooked up a KVM switch so I can switch to the other computer when I am updating records. Not even my wife knows about that pc and it is not connected to any network, most importantly the internet. I back it up once a week with an external harddrive.

I use Quicken, I have quick books also but prefer Quicken because it can download all my transactions from my bank for both personal and business accounts

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that's what i use, i should probably pick up some file cabinets :)

notepad, tax report book, wordperfect, filing cabnit.

very smart , not connected to any network, most importantly the internet :thumbsup

Quickbooks encrypts the data :)

Regards,

Lee

Quicken Home and Business is a good blend between Quicken and Quickbooks. It has good small biz features including assigning categories to tax forms, etc, and does all the automatic download stuff that Quicken does.

You can password protect your data files, and even password protect individual transactions.

It's cheap, and the learning curve is trivial.

I use a combination of Quicken and my Wife :winkwink: