Free Accounting Software Review
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Most of the free accounting software are not high end accounting software, but simple, easy to use accounting software. These free software cater to the needs of home users or small business houses. Basically they focus primarily on the management of simple accounting. In fact with a free accounting software you can easily perform the tasks performed by a paid accounting software.
Free Accounting Software 2.0 One very popular free downloadable accounting product is Free Accounting Software 2.0 from Systems Online. Even though this Windows based program is free, it is still a complete multiuser, multicompany, and multibranch accounting, inventory, and customer management solution for business. Free Accounting includes: physical and non-physical inventory, invoicing, customers, contacts, vendors, inventory, sales, sales returns and credit memos, quotes, purchasing, and purchase returns. Furthermore it can handle complete AR and AP with all accounting functions and journals including general journal, inventory control journal, checkbooks, and bank reconciliation and deposits. This new version is a major upgrade with many valuable features including FIFO/LIFO and Average cost accounting! (To keep this product free you will be required to link to them on your web site. Otherwise you will be required to pay a small fee.)
Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 Another exciting product is Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007. Microsoft promotes this new free product as, “Everything you need to make your small business idea flourish. Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 is available in the U.S. only, as a free download or on a CD. An advantage to this product is that if your small business out grows the Express Version you can easily upgrade to the paid Professional Version.
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It is always better to go for a trail version, when you are considering to download a free accounting software. It is a great way to see whether it meets all your accounting needs or not. The best thing is that you do not have to commit anything. If you think, it is not great for your business, simply discard it and go for another demo version until you find the right one.
GnuCash Due to the increasing popularity of the Linux platform this product is worth mentioning. GnuCash is an Linux open source accounting application. In fact GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program for Linux. GnuCash is a functional replacement for many of the expensive accounting programs. This release is a new version for 2007!
